Black Bean Soup

Since I had leftover black beans from making those burgers the other night, I thought I'd give this a try. It wasn't bad- when I was making it I was a little unsure of whether it would turn out, but we liked it. I LOVED it as more of a bean dip for tortilla chips. I think it would be a great party dip. It was a nice change from our normal beans-and-bread food storage standby. I like finding new ways to eat beans that don't always taste like beans!

Black Bean Soup (Our Best Bites)

Ethan crawls- Officially! Sometimes he crawls up on his feet, like bear style (if thats how you describe that?) which is way cute. He is WAY happy that he is figuring out how to move about. Audrey makes this growly sound whenever she gets angry now. I think I taught it to her- we were talking about different feelings, and she had the little popsicle sticks with happy face, sad face, scared face, and angry face and we talked about each one. Sad was easy for her to understand, and scared was easy, and happy she seemed to understand fine. Angry was a little harder, so I made a growly sound to kind of explain it to her. I just figured out today that is probably why she has started doing that. It's interesting though- we haven't played with those since we moved, like a month ago. Maybe she got it from something else. Either way she is beautiful and adorable and I just love my children more and more every day. They are AMAZING! Thomas is getting better at his uke- he loves to play and learn new songs. I am preparing for a student's senior recital a week from Saturday... it should be good. Things are coming together nicely.