voice thread

I haven't updated in a while and it's been a full and beautiful summer. I was just introduced to this great new tool so instead of posting pictures here I'm going to use Voicethread to make a series of "books" about our summer.

here's the first one:

voicethread.com/share/1346623/

The best part of this software is the interaction....so please....make a free account on the site and leave a comment ( it can be voice, video or text)

Crabs on the roof

In a very real sense, we’re all made out of sunlight. Sunlight radiating heat, visible light, and ultraviolet light is the source of virtually all life on Earth.Everything you see alive around you is there because a plant somewhere was able to capture sunlight and store it.All animals live from these plants, whether directly (as with herbivores) or indirectly (as with carnivores, which eat the herbivores). This is true of mammals, insects, birds, amphibians, reptiles, bacteria...everything living. Every life form on the surface of this planet is here because a plant was able to gather sunlight and store it, and something else was able to eat that plant and take that sunlight-energy in to power its body.

--Thom Hartmann

So here is the little bundle of sunshine after 2 weeks and 8 months of converting star stuff into body stuff.
It wasn't easy getting him back into that shirt.
Louie has been using a variety of fruit and veg to make his body...but still most eagerly with breast milk. It's great to see him enjoy food as a full body experience dancing and rocking in his chair as he anticipates the next spoonful.

As for us, we had the occasion to incorporate crab into our bodies last weekend. Seunghwan's sister Yuri had bought a decent weight of fresh whole crabs which she froze, and gave us half. ( thanks Yuri!)A week before we watched a video of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall preparing crab pasta (thanks James!)and we were inspired to try the pasta recipe.
We steamed half the crab and mixed it into the pasta sauce and Seunghwan Barbecued the rest
to be eaten straight up. I think everyone agreed that the pasta was delish but the BBQed meat had better flavour.
North Americans in general tend to be a little cowardly in their approach to food. We don't really like to see the animal it comes from, or touch it with our hands, and are not so fond of consuming organs...especially when they are called by their true name.
I was impressed to see that Seunghwan could expertly open the crab and identify everything inside it and that he not only ate but thoroughly enjoyed every part save the shell and mustache...yes, crabs have mustaches.

To me this is true respect for the animal. To use all of it...to enjoy all of it.

I wish I could have done the same but I did enjoy the crab meat in the pasta.

Staying fit with baby

We picked up a used jogging stroller on our trip to Canada at Christmas. It has been so nice to get out for a run with Louie and take advantage of the 35km stretch of flat path along the Han River which runs through the center of Seoul.The inconvenience of extra baggage is a faint memory. We actually live quite close too...a 15 minute walk or 10 min sprint straight down the hill from our place. Louie plays with his toys, eats banana, or just takes in the fresh morning breeze and view of the water for a half hour and then we play at one of the many parks along along the path. And at every park there is inevitably a group of Ajjumas or middle school girls ready to smother Louie...he loves it!

Lately we go a couple of times a week and then other mornings I enjoy a solo run while Seunghwan plays with Louie.

And Seunghwan has found a new weight training technique in which the poundage magically increases on it's own week by week.

Dinner: tomato/zucchini omelet with rice