Author: becandkyle

Monday was Pi day, so we celebrated with chocolate avocado pie:

On Thursday, we were visited by a mischievous leprechaun:

Country of the week: Ireland. Corned beef, potatoes, and sautéed cabbage:

I was a happy little green man:

I sent the bigs on a scavenger hunt for the pot of gold:

Saturday was a snowy day of cross-country skiing. I spent most of the day off-trail in the woods climbing every little hill I could find.

On Sunday, we had a beautiful day of skiing at the mountain.

It was the day of my highly anticipated rematch with Devil’s Backbone. The conditions were much better today.

I showed it who’s boss.

I’ve been reading my way through the bookshelf in the office:

This is a good one. I’m on page 107.

When I’m not busy reading long pictureless books, I’m guiding the Bigs through math lessons:

I have had two loose teeth for several weeks now. These teeth used to be touching each other. Something big must be pushing its way in.

We had a beautiful day of Nordic skiing on Saturday:

Sunday was a powder day! I was Powder Man, skiing black diamonds all day.

Our country of the week was Japan. Yasai-to-tofu-no-misoshiru (hearty miso soup with vegetables and tofu):

and miso yakionigiri (grilled miso rice balls):

Did I like it? No, I did not. It was a bit of a flop. We may need a Japan-night do-over.

Winter happiness salad, on the other hand, was delicious:

My Olympic training continues. This week? Biathlon.

Our country this week was Thailand. We had Pad See Ew:

There were lots of good guesses as to what I was working on last week, but no one got it.

I built a radio.

We had a gorgeous ski day on Sunday. Summit was open. We took our picture at the top like tourists

and enjoyed a picnic in the parking lot.

Looks like I’m helping The Bigs clean, right?

Wrong! I’m curling.

This week we returned to Mexico for Baja shrimp tacos with lime crema, rice and beans, and fried plantains.

I decided to spend my allowance on another soldering kit. Here I am getting started.

This one is going to take a while. Can you guess what I am making?!

We had another powder day today. It was a real Pacific Northwest kind of day. Wet, wet snow. It was tricky skiing. I managed, falling less than The Mother…

and even did another black diamond (Grotto) not once but TWICE.

I have a loose tooth, but it wasn’t the tooth fairy who came this week. The ski fairy came and left a pair of skate skis.

I tried them out on Saturday. We had great conditions and lots of sunshine. Everyone was spent by the end. Here are two videos The Mother took.

On Sunday we had our first powder day since Christmas break. It was pretty great despite the Presidents’ Day holiday crowd.

Here’s another video. That woman just won’t let me do anything without shoving a camera in my face.

All my activities make me hungry. I wanted a ‘small’ snack last night after dinner.

Just in case you can’t see – it’s fruit salad with chocolate chips in a TWO CUP container.

This week our country was Panama. We had Panamanian stew.

We also had a Thai Crunch Salad one night:

Valentine’s Day is coming, so I made a mailbox for school. The Bigs made me put hearts on it. Not sure why.

I made cards for my teachers from a shiitake mushroom:

It has been warm here, really warm, end-of-days warm, but the skiing is still good.

I’m back to skating on my too-short classic skis.

My friend from school, Quinn, came over to play Saturday afternoon. We did some archery, some trapeze swinging, and here we are making lego lugers:

Our culinary travels took us to Greenland (!?) this week. Baked cod loin and hot potato salad:

This week, I made African peanut stew.

The picture does not do it justice, it was very good.

I have some complaints about my wardrobe. My underwear aren’t right, the pants mom bought me are for toddlers, and I am SO over the sneakers without LACES.

That’s better. Now about my underwear…

We did not have school on Friday. Why not? It’s not like The Bigs have jobs or anything. Mom took Hazel and me to the rock gym.

I climbed to the very top every single time.

I did some cross country skiing on Saturday. I said I was tired, but I just kept going.

And then on Sunday, I did some ‘pine.

We were all having fun, until…

I decided it was time to conquer my last lift. NORTHWEST EXPRESS. The Bigs conferred. They felt confident there had to be one reasonable run off the lift. Incorrect.

So, we chose this one.

Oh, yes, it was an icy black diamond.

Even The Bigs admitted it was terrible. They said it was a ‘character building experience’. I guess that is another way to say BAD PARENTING.

I made it down and was all smiles. Maybe, just maybe, they were right.

Some other things we ate this week:

Teff waffles:

and injera bread.

Self-efficient man gets a snack. M&M’s on the top shelf are no problem.

Mom forgot my nordic boots on Saturday, so The Bigs rented me skate skis! I skied 9.5 miles over 3 hours!

Here is a video of me attacking:

It clouded up on Sunday. Maybe it will finally snow.

Our country this week was Brazil. We had Brazilian fish stew.

I made fancy drinks to accompany the stew.

We also made kalua pork. It was steamed in banana leaves

and served with cabbage and rice.

Guest blogger this week. Everything (except for this bit) was written by this guy:

we are just going down olympian it’s one of my favorite trails.

this is my ski class.

this is me and my dad. we are measuring pipes for my fort.

I am building my fort .

this is what it look with no roof.

this is wen the fort was finished .

this is broken top

ski ski as fast as you can you cant catch me i’m the skier man

sunny lunch that was to day .

I drew this guy I call him Evan Callistrictor Jeff Bezos

this is smoke salmon

Ethiopian lentil stew .

mom made lentil m’eat’ balls

roasted portobello mushrooms millet pilaf

Some things I have been up to lately.

Cleaning those hard to reach places – only requires a stool on a stool.

Making my own snacks (and the recipes). This one is 1/2 cup dried goldenberries, 1/4 cup dried apples, and 1/2 cup dried figs.

And skiing. I knocked off another lift this weekend. First ride on Outback.

I also put my nordic lessons to work and hit the trails on Sunday.

It was warm enough for a tailgate.

This week The Mother decided if it could not be made in a crockpot, we couldn’t eat it. Lazy, I tell ya!

Our country of the week was Morocco. We enjoyed Moroccan lamb stew.

Tortilla soup.

And creamy cauliflower soup.