Hearing, Playing and Walking

This week has been flying by already. Most weeks do these days. Last week Friday Layla had to go to have a hearing test. It's only because she was a preemie--we have no reason to think that her hearing isn't normal. I'm pretty sure that when she doesn't listen it's because she's ignoring me, not because she can't hear me:). Anyway, the appointment was going good, they had Layla and me sit in this little room inside of a bigger room and the guy would talk to Layla and he made sure that she would turn her head the correct way for where the sound was coming from. She did good with that. There were a few times when he would just put a weird sound through the speakers and she'd ignore it because she was too busy pointing out things in the room (there was a Mickey and a Minnie which she loves), but for the most part she would look to where the sound was coming from. Well, then he wanted her to put headphones on which she wanted nothing to do with. So then he said he'd try it a different way and gave her a tray full of stackable block type of things. He told her to put a block by her ear and then when she heard a noise she needed to move the block away from her ear and stack it on another block on the tray. Uh, yeah, she totally didn't get that. She did it once, but it was purely a coincidence:). He then checked her ear pressure by sticking things in her ears and surprisingly she didn't mind that. She likes to get the "yuckies" out of her ears at home so I think she thought it was like that:). So then he said there was one more test and he dinked around the computer for what seemed like awhile and then he said we were done. So now we need to go back in six months since she couldn't do any of the tests that test each ear individually. I'm pretty sure he made it sound like that block test was to test each ear individually, but that really has nothing to do with testing them seperately. Who knows. Hopefully she cooperates in six months:).

Gavin is over today and the kids have been playing nicely together, thankfully:).

Layla and Gavin were pretending to go nigh-night earlier today...pretty sure they would never really take a nap like this:).

I put together Layla's princess tent that she got from Grandpa and Grandma for Christmas. Apparently the people that made it are not very smart as the holes where the poles go in were on the bottom of the tent instead of on the top of if where they were supposed to be and all the poles were too long so Joe had to cut them down! But it is now in working order and the kids love it!



Gibson has lots of entertainment watching Gavin and Layla...

Gibson checking out Gavin...

Gibson's baptism is coming up so I need to get some more pictures of him with our families to put in the slideshow (and it's of course just nice to have those pictures too:D)...

I like to sometimes get recipes off of other people's blogs so I thought I'd post one from a salad I made earlier this week. I've been pretty impressed with myself how much we've been eating at home since having Gibson. We didn't get any meals brought over from people from church like we had after we had Layla so it's forced me to cook more since we've been home a lot and don't have any good restuarants near our house! :)

I made the salad into a lettuce salad and it was a refreshing summer salad!

Here is the recipe as taken from the Food Network's website:

Ingredients
3/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/2 cup orange marmalade
3 large garlic cloves, minced (1 tablespoon)
1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves
1/2 cup olive oil
4 teaspoons soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes
1 pound large shrimp, about 16, shelled and deveined
4 wooden skewers
1 ripe avocado, peeled and quartered lengthwise, fanned out onto 4 plates
1 orange, peeled and sectioned (all pith and membranes removed)
Fresh cilantro sprigs
Directions
In a medium non-reactive bowl, whisk together the lime juice, marmalade, garlic, cilantro, 7 tablespoons of the olive oil, soy sauce and dried hot red pepper flakes. Using a measuring cup, remove 1/2 cup and set aside, refrigerated. Add the shrimp to the bowl and toss to combine thoroughly with the marinade. Refrigerate for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Place the skewers in a shallow tray and cover with hot water. Set aside until you are ready to grill the shrimp.
Preheat a grill or broiler to medium heat.
Place the shrimp on the soaked wooden skewers. Lightly pat dry with paper towels and, using a brush, lightly coat the shrimp on both sides with the remaining tablespoon of olive oil. Grill for about 2 to 3 minutes on each side, or until shrimp are golden brown on both sides and cooked through. Place the shrimp on top of the fanned avocado slices and season with salt to taste. Top with the orange segments then divide the reserved dressing evenly among the 4 plates and garnish with the cilantro sprigs. Serve immediately.

I left out the garlic, added all the oil to the dressing accidentally (used Soybean oil), used mandarin oranges, and added romaine lettuce (but we both agreed spinach would have been even better) slivered almonds and feta cheese. Oh, and I didn't have enough lime juice, but it was still plenty limey. Layla enjoyed it too. I hope Gibson is as good of an eater as she is--there isn't anything she won't try!

When the whether was nice last week we took a family walk except it was cut short since it was a lot windier than we thought!