all done all done all done
Jan. 14th, 2014 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateWe have progressed into an era wherein "ALL DONE" means "I want milk." It also continues to mean "I'm all done with this diaper change you're in the middle of," and "I've finished everything interesting on my tray and would like more to eat," and occasionally "I'm ready for naptime." Attempts to re-introduce "MILK" have been futile and "MORE" continue sporadic. Oh well. At least she's got the idea of communicating. (and she's got this look when I try to suggest other ways of saying what she wants of "you know what I *mean*, Mommy, why are you being difficult?")
Ahem. Ways to embarrass your future teenaged children!
We finally made it to the Baltimore Zoo yesterday, which turns out to be a great deal easier than I was expecting. (Yes, it's in the middle of the city, but it's also practically a straight shot in from 295.) Should anyone local or visiting wish to meet up with us there, I can get an extra adult in free for the next year, and they even claim they'll be done constructing all the things by fall. It was a lovely day and the zoo was sparsely populated by parents and kids in the Megatherium's age bracket, so we had lots of it to ourselves and lots of other-baby-watching, plus a little bit of chance to walk about (holding both my hands) on actual pavement surfaces. And all the prairie dogs and bats and an okapi who found her even more interesting than she found it. I was also fairly impressed with their interactive play areas in the local biomes exhibits, so that will be nice in a few years.
Unrelatedly, I tried to make bread the other day with actual kneeding, and determined that the confluence of baby, drafty house w/o a nice warm place to put stuff, and various other factors make this less of a good idea than I'd like. I'm considering bread machines (and a digital scale, since my measuring habits do not lend themselves to mechanical precision) on the grounds that they are more likely to produce a product that someone other than the Megatherium thinks is food. (there was a problem with poor timing and slow rise and then the outside of the loaf dried out to the point of preventing more rise...) And since bread is the new awesome thing-- not quite as good as strawberries or raisins, but a toddler's got to have *some* standards-- I think being able to bake consistent yeast breads that aren't full of weird mass manufacture stuff would be rather nice. And then I can make bread that's full of weird us-approved stuff instead. Because ground up hazelnuts in my cinnamon raisin bread sound *far* better than corn syrup or potassium sorbate.
Has anyone got relevant bread machine experience to share? Either brand/model- or useful feature- specific would be nice to know.
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Ahem. Ways to embarrass your future teenaged children!
We finally made it to the Baltimore Zoo yesterday, which turns out to be a great deal easier than I was expecting. (Yes, it's in the middle of the city, but it's also practically a straight shot in from 295.) Should anyone local or visiting wish to meet up with us there, I can get an extra adult in free for the next year, and they even claim they'll be done constructing all the things by fall. It was a lovely day and the zoo was sparsely populated by parents and kids in the Megatherium's age bracket, so we had lots of it to ourselves and lots of other-baby-watching, plus a little bit of chance to walk about (holding both my hands) on actual pavement surfaces. And all the prairie dogs and bats and an okapi who found her even more interesting than she found it. I was also fairly impressed with their interactive play areas in the local biomes exhibits, so that will be nice in a few years.
Unrelatedly, I tried to make bread the other day with actual kneeding, and determined that the confluence of baby, drafty house w/o a nice warm place to put stuff, and various other factors make this less of a good idea than I'd like. I'm considering bread machines (and a digital scale, since my measuring habits do not lend themselves to mechanical precision) on the grounds that they are more likely to produce a product that someone other than the Megatherium thinks is food. (there was a problem with poor timing and slow rise and then the outside of the loaf dried out to the point of preventing more rise...) And since bread is the new awesome thing-- not quite as good as strawberries or raisins, but a toddler's got to have *some* standards-- I think being able to bake consistent yeast breads that aren't full of weird mass manufacture stuff would be rather nice. And then I can make bread that's full of weird us-approved stuff instead. Because ground up hazelnuts in my cinnamon raisin bread sound *far* better than corn syrup or potassium sorbate.
Has anyone got relevant bread machine experience to share? Either brand/model- or useful feature- specific would be nice to know.
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