it's august?!?

Yikes, where has the time gone? Little Aedan is 4 months old, and summer is almost over (thank goodness). After thinking so often how I want to come back to this space, I have succumbed to the realization that raising a toddler and a baby doesn't allow for much, if any, down time. Especially after this past Tuesday, when Claire managed to brush an entire small tub of Vaseline in her hair, and the other tub onto everything else in sight. Four baths in less than 24 hours followed.
So today was something of a "let's bake some comfort food" day. The theme I picked for this week's library books was cooking and baking, including the super cute How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World. I think we are going to have to buy it, because it's so darn amazing. We used the apple pie recipe in the back, and Claire had lots of fun... mind you, I have never made real pie or pie crust from scratch because I don't like it.

Let me just say, this was probably the best pie crust I've ever had, when I was sure it was going to be terrible. Maybe it's the turbinado sugar we sprinkled on top, but this might be changing my mind about pie crust.

And just maybe I made a peach pie with the other half of the dough.

For unknown reasons, she only ate two bites. I had to eat the rest of it. Too bad.