Strange food, hair cuts, check ups, eye patches and more!

So, lately I have been in the mood to try new foods and experiment with new things. Somethings I have liked and others,...not so much. But hey, I am willing to almost anything a try. My first dare...pickled green tomatoes. And Mike even jumped on board with me! What an awesome husband!

 Next new iteam on the "New Foods" list,...Balut.

What is balut? It is a delicacy in the Filipino culture. Balut is a popular Filipino street snack and is essentially a duck egg with a fetus inside, typically between seventeen to twenty days in gestation that has been hard boiled. Balut is very nutritious and chock-full of proteins. In the Philippines balut is so popular that it is equivalent to what the hot dog is in the U.S.

 The Balut with the duck fetus

My Mom is awesome and totally tried it like a champ! 

 My turn! It wasn't bad tasting (once you get over the fact that you are eating a duck fetus) It mainly tasted like a hard boiled egg. My dear friend Amy even tried it a while ago and she is so tiny and delicate and I was surprised that she really enjoyed it as well!

Amy totally ate it like a champ! She is so open to trying new things that it makes me want to try new things too! The Lord gave us all cultural differences so that we can learn from one another and I have really enjoyed my new food adventures.

 

Next on the food challenge list,....Mike wanted to take the Franks Slider challenge. You have to eat 10 "mini hamburgers" or sliders with no time limit, and if you vomit, then you fail. If you finish, then you get your picture on the wall and a T-shirt. Mike would have no part in the Balut but he was all game to try this hamburger challenge. So here they are,...all then burgers. Good luck baby.

 After 3 burgers he was already feeling sick...

 And after 4, his tummy started to rumble

 After 5 burgers he was ready to chuck. And the valiant effort had failed. But next time he is determined to succeed and I have faith that he will, although we might need a chuch bucket close by.

 Happy Father's Day to my amazing husband and a wonderful father! I made him prime rib with all the fixing and we watched the movie "When in Rome". Had a wonderful time together. I also took my brother Dan, out to Sumo Sushi for lunch and we got a few different rolls that we hadn't tried before and I also tried octopus sushi and much to my surprise, I LIKED it! And I will be ordering it again! I thought it not only tasted Delicious but I liked the texture as well. And Since Mike isn't interested AT ALL in any sort of fish, or Balut for that matter, I made him prime rib.

 Another new development is that Kherrington is 7 1/2 months old and is sitting up on her own! She is rolling all over the place and getting to crawl!

 I'm a big girl now!

 Natalie's 3 year old check up

Natalie is a beautiful girl but her long hair was getting out of control. There is always food in it and I can never get her to sit still long enough to get a brush through it. I snuck her into super cuts before daddy had a chance to say no, but personally I think her hair looks adorable.

I had to take Natalie to a child opthamologist  specialist in Santa Barbara. Natalie has had a wandering eye and it has caused some vision problems for her. The Dr. said that we needed to patch her right eye for at least 2 hours everyday so that it will strengthen her left eye. It turns out that she LOVES her pretty eye "bandaids"!

 What a cutie pie! I couldn't even get her to take it off!

Snuggle time with my brave little munchkin! 

 And then there is Laney-loo, always dramatic and very expressive of her emotions but man, she is a beautiful baby!

Look at those beautiful curls! 

Snuggles for Grandma Lynda 

We are a blessed family!