Mmmm…Bacon.

In honor of an appetizer that I will be making for a family get together this weekend, I had to share a fantastic story. A little background is required to truly appreciate it:

I am Jewish. My husband is Catholic. I grew up eating fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The same can be said about him, except it was pork. He and his family love pork. That is an understatement but in order to remain in some good graces, I will leave it at that. Recalling one Christmas holiday where there was 14 different pork products served in less than 24 hours. I was baffled by a pig’s ability to reincarnate itself in 14 different dishes. I digress.

While on a walk with a dear friend, a BLT dip appetizer was mentioned. I smiled and shouted with glee! I was going to make this for Alex’s family and be the hit of the party! I always over do it and so I decided to double the recipe. A recipe that already took 1 pound of bacon. Being the good Jewish girl that I am…well not that good considering I married a pork eating Catholic, I committed myself to making the recipe. When explaining the recipe to the hubby, he mentioned how his mother used to cook the bacon in the microwave. Seeing as I was not very proficient at making bacon (disclaimer here that turkey bacon is not real bacon and it cooks differently), I let Alex do the “cooking”.

Fast forwarding the story…I went somewhere and came back and the house smelled of bacon. I go into the kitchen and see Alex standing next to the microwave with paper towels everywhere and this giant square shaped pile on a plate. It can only be described as a layered concoction of bacon and paper towels. Alex had decided that he was going to microwave two pounds of bacon…ALL AT ONCE!

At first I was livid, I was beside myself! All that bacon, ruined! You would have thought that it was fillet mignon. Then I thought more about what I had walked into and realized that he was microwaving TWO POUNDS of BACON! Then I really lost it. But this time, it was from laughing.

To this day he will deny and then confirm the events discussed above. My eyes were tearing up just writing this blog entry! Looking forward to trying this recipe again!

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs!

This is the point in the blogging process where the proud parents take the opportunity to tell the entire world (or small blog reading community) that we have the SMARTEST BABY EVER! Yes, it has been officially acknowledged by the AAABA – Amazing AND Accelerated Baby Academy. Coincidentally, AAABA is a common phrase spoken by our genius of a baby..Ok never mind, she’s not a genius, but she is REALLY SMART!

We have been watching sign-language videos for the past 3+ months. She is in love with these videos. “Rachel” is the woman in the videos. She lives in our TV. We ask “Where’s Rachel?” and Jenna looks immediately to the TV. She will only watch these two videos. When nothing else will calm her, we watch “Rachel”. We know ALL of the songs and ALL of the signs. “Let’s Dance! Dance! Do the Diaper Dance!”

Within the past month, Jenna has really started to accelerate in the signing. She often “signs” to herself. It is PRECIOUS! To date, this is everything that she can sign intentionally:

Eat, More, Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Cat, Dog, Bird, All Done, Milk, Horse, Frog, Fish, Baby, Ball, Car, Head/Hat, Shoe, Thank you, Please.

Enough bragging for one day!