Chips and Salsa, Sing it Please! and an Ode to a new cool tool!

This is my new cool tool.  Looks like a chinese finger trap huh!  It is a Jalapeno corer and seed remover.  It works really well for tomatos too.  So, what do jalapenos, tomatos, and a warm spring day have to do with the price of eggs?  I will tell you!

SALSA SALSA SALSA SALSA!  I think everyone has that one thing they make themselves that just hits the spot!  Salsa is mine.  I think it is the best salsa ever.  I have a love hate relationship with the jalapenos though.  I love the heat (it always varies, Brett likes it very hot, I am a little more reserved so i keep the seeds out so he can add his own extra heat.  Its a lot easier now that we have a cool tool to do it!) but I am not a huge fan of it when it gets on my lips.  Your lips burn and tingle, so you keep licking them.  If you are lucky there is a little salt left on them, which of course leads to get a drink.  On the way to get a drink you spot that salsa.  The smell begs you to take another bite. Its a vicious yet delicious trap.  One of my roommates in college was addicted to salsa.  (Not mine, I didn't know how to make this delicacy yet) And when we needed a treat, or something to snack on if it wasn't popcorn, it was "Chips and Salsa!!!!!"  You have to say it in a boistrous sing song voice.  It was classic Shanny.  I actually learned my recipe from one of my dearest friends SarBear.  I was over at her house when her family was making it.  They grew all their own ingredients.  I don't do that, it really doesn't work for me.  Anyhow, I was addicted to it that very night. 

In other news... Bryce has discovered how to climb.  I was really hoping he wouldn't be a climber, but the boy is fearless!  I caught him getting into the cupboard under the sink (he knows that is off limits) so while I was picking up the 409 bottle in the other room, he dropped the door to the dish washer and climbed on.  He stood and looked at me like "What are you going to do? Panic? I hope so, its funny!"  I would have taken a picture, but I didn't want the dishwasher to break.  Especially since we are renting it.  I blame the kids at the park.  Always climbing up the slide the wrong way, he never would have become such  climber if he hadn't seen them.  YeaH, its their fault. 

Some other updates on Bryce, he loves to read and turn pages.  He loves this book by Eric Carle called 123 to the Zoo.  He can tell you what noise the Monkey makes, and what noise a Goldfish makes. (Pop Pop Pop with your mouth quietly.)  He is just as adorable as ever, and growing up way too fast.  We love it!

I said "Hi Bryce!"  And he looked up and waved.  How cute is that?  When he wants us to read a book he brings it to us like this and shoves it into our laps.  I love reading time.