Chimney Cake!

When Tom and I visited Budapest in November, one thing high on my list of local foods to try was the chimney cake  It is dough rolled onto a hot iron, baked over coals, then rolled in yummy things like cinnamon sugar or nuts.  It's like a non-gooey inside-out American cinnamon roll...not that I don't like gooey! :)  Anyway, the street stall selling them had closed by the time we got out of dinner on our last night, and I missed out on my chimney cake.  But on our very first night as a family in Budapest, we took the kids.  It lived up to all my expectations.  They're fantastic!

 

Merry Christmas 2014!

 

Our last Christmas morning in our Hatton house.

Visit from the Tooth Fairy

Ten minutes after I left for a PTO meeting last night, Nicholas lost his first top tooth (left center). Daddy was fully in charge of getting everything ready for the Tooth Fairy visit.

Love Nico's note, especially the "Dear the tooth fairy"! Tom said the cutout Nicholas made at the bottom of the paper was to "make it fancy" ?!?!

In the morning he had received a new golden dollar coin and a note back. Hard to tell in the picture, but the Fairy's response was on metallic mirror card stock. Now that's fancy...

Fashionista

I've given up on influencing Charlotte's fashion choices. At least she's out of "sporty pants" (like her brother) which was her previous obsession. Apparently we've moved on to maximizing the number of patterns per outfit!

Happy Thanksgiving (a day late!)

Due to unforeseen turkey issues and too late of a start on Thursday, Tom and I sent the kids to bed with a dinner of chicken quesadillas and ate a lovely Thanksgiving grownup meal after the kids went down. But Friday was designated our Family Feast Day. It actually turned out nice because all the cooking was already done and we had a nice relaxing meal together. Since I'm still recovering from my tonsilectomy I hadn't really planned on making a big meal, but the requests kept pouring in, and I couldn't deny my son who asked for turkey, green beans and cornbread. (I made all of those along with pear cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy and pumpkin pie)

Charlotte's pilgrim hat from a few years ago got lost somehow, so she opted for Pocahontas. She doesn't really like pie, just whipped cream. So that's what she had for dessert. A pile of whipped cream!

Yum!

Pocahontas Pose

Happy Thanksgiving!

How You Know You've Been Slumming it for Too Long

Charlotte asked at dinner tonight - "Do you have a meeting tonight, Mama?" I told her no I didn't, that I'd be home. She replied - "Then why do you have earrings on?". I guess it's really time to get out of tonsil-removal recovery mode, folks!

Charlotte's a 3-Day Hippo!

Charlotte started school this morning. She'll go three mornings a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Her teachers are Ms. Patty and Ms. Ginny in the Hippo class. It's a new year in a new class in a new building.

Think she's excited??