Making Peanut Butter

We made Peanut Butter today!  First you have to take the skins off.  (Mommy roasted them first)

Next you put the peanuts in the blender and push the button LOTS of times.

Until it looks like this:

I tasted a bit then, just to make sure it was yummy. Then you add oil, icing sugar, and salt.

We ate our fresh peanut butter on toast. It was really yummy!

I gave some to Daddy, and he liked it too. He said it was the best Peanut Butter he has ever tasted!

(PJ's not old enough to have any yet)

We even made the jar!

Some flowers are for picking, others are not

One of the things that I have really been looking forward to about coming back to Russia is the ice slides.  But it's not Winter at the moment.

 

But there are some good things about Summer time.  One of them is that there are flowers.  There is a forest near our house, and there are lots of flowers there.  I just love flowers.

But you are now allowed to pick the flowers in this forest.  Mummy and Daddy tried to a couple of years ago and some Babushkas yelled at them and told them off.  Daddy thinks that it is because, that if everyone picked the flowers then there would be none left for anyone to enjoy.  I think it's because if everyone picked the flowers, then there would be no bees to make honey.

  

  

We left the forest and came back to the street.  There were lots of flowers by the side of the road.

  

And guess what?  I was allowed to pick those ones!  Mummy says that dandelions are really great flowers, because they are pretty and you are also allowed to pick them.  :)

I'm not picking it, I'm just pretending.

 

I wanted Daddy to take a photo, cos I like the purple thing I'm standing next to.

  

Isn't it pretty?  They had a pink one too. Both of my favourite colours, although I like purple more.

Later I got to play in the sand pit.

Home school

I will be starting home school properly in September. For the mean time Mommy has started practising home school with me. Yesterday we wrote some words and then also learnt some science about the human body. It was heaps of fun.



I would also like to go to Russian kindergarten in September if Mommy and Daddy can find a good one. I will have to learn some Russian before then, so I might have lessons with a lady when we move into our apartment.

Where is it on my map?

My Daddy is very good at finding things on maps. On the airplane they gave me a map of my own, so I used it the other day to help us find our way around the city, just like Daddy. But whenever I asked Daddy where we were on my map, we were always in the same place.

In China I'm famous!

We went to a big big square today, it was like a park, but more like a sidewalk. There were people everywhere! And I think that PJ and I must be famous in China because everyone wanted to meet us, and take pictures of us. At first it was kinda fun, I like having my picture taken, but there were lots of people, and I got tired of all of them taking my picture. Somebody was holding me tight, and they wanted me to stand still and wait.






We are staying in China for 3 more days. I'm not sure thats enough time to learn all the Chinese, but I sure said "ni hao ma" to alot of people today!
We have skype at our hotel, so if you want we can talk on the computer phone.