Tamales & Baby Sprinkle

Made tamales for the first time today at Michelle's with Kim and Heather. It was quite fun! A lot like making egg rolls, you first make the inside ingredients and then sit down to roll everything up. I managed to make a bunch of "finger tamales" (think the size of your pinky) because it seemed like such a shame to just toss those corn husk sections when they were still perfectly usable even if they were teeny, tiny. I'll call them "Claire-sized" tamales. :) The only downside of creating tamales is it's not really a "one to make, one to eat" type of activity like making cookies where you end up with about 1/2 the cookies since the other 1/2 of the batter gets eaten throughout!

Me and Kim

Heather and Michelle

Hard at work

My playgroup hosted a baby sprinkle -- that is, a light shower -- for Baby Pee today. It was hosted by Flo, Cathy G, and Cathy B, and I am so grateful and honored that they would do something like that for me, especially with everything else going on in their lives right now. I started the whole "sprinkle" thing within the playgroup when the first moms got pregnant (I think it was Maya first, then Cathy) never thinking that I would be in the same position just a few months later!

Troublemakers

Here's Baby Sprinkle pics that Cathy took (thank goodness someone did!). I only managed to get a couple; you can see more in our November album.