Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Southern Eats: watermelon and corn, y'all!

How to eat a watermelon Chance-style:

1) Ask Dad to cut a slice that's almost as big as your head.
2) Put face into one of the slices on the picnic table, slurping fruit into mouth.
3) Cradle slice in the nook of your arm, as if it were a baby, and carry it around the backyard.
4) Regularly shove slice into face, hoping that more of the fruit makes it into your mouth.
5) Proceed to play as usual, eating as many slices as your stomach will take.




Our "Little Momma" Grace took her slice into the "new" playhouse and placed it into the "sink bowl" . . . then put the bowl onto "the grill." Ta da!

"Ahhhh, cooked JUST right!"
Chance horns in on Grace's game.

Daddy offers Chance another slice (his 3rd or 4th, we think).
BTW, Mommy bought the Kidkraft Interactive Outdoor Playhouse at a local outlet called Costless, who sells leftovers from Costco. This playhouse was a floor model, so it's not in perfect shape--the "phone" is missing, one of the wooden walls is cracked (we hope to glue it w/ Gorilla Glue), the handle to the door doesn't work--but it was WORTH $69.99! (The full price is about $350.00.) One side is a refreshment stand with a grill, another is a puppet theater with a clock whose hands work, another is a water/sand area (with tubs for each)! There's even a working doorbell.VIDEO of Daddy cutting up the first watermelon (seedless) of the summer. The twins also dug in to sweet corn-on-the-cob--YUM, y'all!

Mommy loves this video of Grace in her tap shoes (from a consignment store)--she's so demure and girly and sweet, though her brother tries to capture the camera with his own rendition of a tap dance.

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