Hippie Sunshine

This morning, I asked Emerson if she wanted some of my banana bread for her breakfast. She excitedly said YES! but then she was confused about the bread I put in front of her instead of a banana. So I had to explain to her the bananas were IN the bread, and that it tasted like bananas. And then once she tried it, she realized she liked it!

We had a great morning at church, and gave her teachers the notebooks she traced her hands in last night. We stopped to pick up roast beef sandwiches from Arby’s on our way home, and this girl learned to say “diva.” Then she ate almost her entire slider, like a big girl!Emerson took a short nap (just over an hour) while I wrote yesterday’s blog post, after my website was down yesterday. I think my site is fine now (although the formatting looks weird now and I can’t get it back to “normal”), but the app is acting weird, so I’m back to blogging from the computer in our front bedroom, and watching “FRIENDS” on Netflix in a smaller window off to the side 😉

Anyways, after a short nap, we went outside for a bit. But we could only handle it for about 10 minutes, before we were both sweating and needed to get back into the a/c!She grabbed my finger and wanted me to get up and follow her. She does this a lot, and I think it’s really sweet.I asked her if she wanted to change into a more comfortable play outfit, and she said, “outfit!” So we found a  new romper in her closet she hadn’t worn yet. And it’s so cute! She looks like a little hippie from the 70’s, nicknamed Sunshine, and I love it. Jeff was off working at his side job thing again, installing that server he was building last night. So Emerson and I ran to Publix for one ingredient that Walmart didn’t have, that I needed for my new recipe tonight. And of course she needed a sugar cookie snack while we were there!

And then this cool chick and I went to the library for a little while. We went up in that little loft area for kids, and another little girl named Molly followed us up there. She was 3, and super chatty, and really sweet. Her and Emmie played together up there for about 20 minutes, and they were so cute!We stopped by for a quick visit with Grammy and Pepaw, and Emmie loved watching some Sesame Street video on the iPad. She couldn’t get quite close enough though, and she was just bouncing her little butt, dancing around. So funny!When we got home, Emmie started doing some work in her food truck, while I got dinner started. I made a new recipe tonight, from one of my favorite bloggers/Instagrammers, for One-Pot Chicken & Coconut Curry Noodles. And you guys, I honestly think this was one of the best things I’ve ever cooked. I mean, I can follow a recipe really well, and I’m not a terrible cook, but wow! There was SO MUCH flavor in this thing, and I really, really loved it. I followed her recipe to a T, but added sliced carrots, diced onions, and extra garlic, because that’s just what I do.Emerson had leftover chicken nuggets, but she also tried some of the ramen noodles, and she really liked them!We also got lots of leftovers out of the deal, so I’m super excited to eat mine for lunch tomorrow. And we have enough cilantro to last until 2020. However, I’m the only one that likes cilantro! So if anyone wants a giant bunch of the stuff, lemme know. It’s yours 😉Dishes are all washed, and the kitchen is clean. It’s still early, so it’s time for an episode of “Fringe.”