A chef in the making.

As you all know food is a big deal in our house:) I love cooking. I can't stand most convenience and conventional foods and can't believe the disgusting artificial colors, sweeteners and ingredients in most pre-packaged foods. I make the majority of our food from scratch with wholesome, real and pronounceable ingredients. Don't get me wrong, I'll whip up the occasional batch of brownies from a box, but any type of frozen meal in a box has yet to grace our dinner table. Athena has been watching me cook like this for almost 4 years now and I'm happy to say that she has taken an interest in cooking and I think she has a real understanding of real food and how it's made.

Athena was playing in her play kitchen while I was making dinner the other day. Her play kitchen is right in the regular kitchen. I was making chicken cacciatore, cutting up a whole chicken, dicing the fresh peppers, onions and tomatoes. I looked over to see what baby girl was doing and had to smile at my observant little chef. Guess what she was making? Yup, she dug through all of her play food to find all of the ingredients she had seen me use in the chicken cacciatore and was trying to make the same thing:) That's a chicken, red pepper, onion and tomato.

She then proceeded to feed it to her baby:) Way to go chef Ena!

For the adoption, we have our fingerprint appointments this Friday the 26th at the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) to renew our immigration pre-approval (I800A). Our original approval was good for one year and is up to expire in mid-December. You don't get to choose when your appoinment is. You apply for the appointment and they assign you a day and time. I was very excited that it fell on a day that we both already have off of work and didn't have to take another day off of work! Worked out great:)