It's hard to believe our little baby girl just turned one!
We had a few people over for her Birthday on Sunday April 5th! Nicole made her a carrot cake which she really liked, but Eleni knowing after watching Nicole shred the carrots asked if somebody could pick out the carrots for her, little miss picky lately... Eleni also kidnapped a Cabbage Patch Kid that Marlo got saying, "This can be both of ours right since Marlo has two?" With a question for an answer back, "When you get a Barbie on your next birthday it will be both of yours right? Of course her answer was "NO!"
Marlo's ONE!
Marlo has pretty much mastered the walking, and her vocabulary is getting bigger too! She's getting pretty good at repeating words, growing up too fast.
Eleni is itching for Summer. She found her summer wardrobe box and I think has pretty much tried it all on by the looks of her room!
MAPLE SYRUP!
I was reading the new Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine which had an article about making your own maple syrup. With a few sugar maples in our yard I decided to tap a few trees and see if I could attempt to make my own. It really started to run the middle of last week and this past weekend I boiled down around 10 gallons or so and ended up with more than I thought I would have since the ratio on average is 40:1. The finished project ended right during Marlo's Party, so our guests got to sample the warm syrup on ice-cream. Turned out pretty good. Next year I may attempt it a a larger scale.
Tapping one of two trees.
Boiling down the Sap.
Finished product in a nice amber color.
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