Weekend

Picnic at the arboretum

Had a little picnic at the arboretum on Sat. It was really nice and cool. A lot of people were out there too, enjoying the great weather. It was simply perfect!


Dallas Arboretum

Some pics I took while we were there. They had some really great fall flowers eg, mums and what not, lots of butterflies were around too, I'd have thought that the cool weather would have driven them away. Guess not...oh well...


food for the weekend

From left to right on the top: Herbs for my Steamed Herbal Chicken, then had to make some Thai Papaya Salad. You see, we were at a friend's place on Sat and his wife made Papaya salad and Yum Woon Sen. It was sooo good...I just needed more even after we left their place. I usually don't really enjoy Thai food that much but this was different, it was THAT good! So went back home, bought some ingredients on the way back and made some too! Heheheh.. I followed the Thai style of this salad and our friend's was more of a laosian style. Doesn't matter, it was GREAT!!! I didn't make the Yum Woon Sen (errmm...I got lazy) but I made Ground Pork with Lime Juice (next pic). It's Thai too and usually eaten with Glutinous rice but you can eat it with regular rice (ok....I didn't prepare the rice, it was an impromptu thing!!!) which we did. And lastly decided to make some Otak Otak (had serious cravings over the weekend!!). With the leftovers I made them into Otak Otak buns!! Also delicious. I still have some papaya left from making the salad, probably might make some more...hehehe...



Mischeivious Monkey

Just my silly monkey up to no good. Right now he's into climbing! He climbs EVERYWHERE!! He even went to the extend of pushing his toy box to the washer and used that as a step to get onto the washer. I heard him giggling and I knew he was up to no good!! When I found him, he looked at me and tried to hug and kiss me!! CHEEKY LITTLE BUGGER!!! Caught him here climbing onto his toy jeep!! *sigh* my little monkey. Currently he's into twirling!! Hehehe...sounds weird but he's twirling! He's also "discovered" his own shadow and kept trying to touch it! LOL it's hilarious to see the little goofball! And yah, he even answers to the name "goofball" I wondered if we are executing the right parenting skill???