(We went to the CN Tower for dinner last night. We went to the car wash today. For creative writing, guess which trumps the other? –L)
I love going for a car wash. Towels wiped the car. It was noisy.
Looney Tunes
(Jon’s been enjoying the Bugs Bunny cartoon Bunny-Hugged recently…it involves wrestling and a fortuitously-placed bank vault door near the end–P)
i LoVe waching bunny hugd . i love waching the very end of bunny hugd – i like the door part. the door opend and closed with a boom.LoVe
JoN
Anna Olson’s Jonathan’s Lemon Squares
Chef Jon with his second batch of his Sugar’s Lemon Squares.
We’re hoping to make baking with him a weekly weekend thing après March Break.
Incidentally, here’s a trick that the famous A.O. dare not try. Jon downs the surplus lemon juice (1/8 cup!) in a swig…with a smile on his face!
Jon’s first official blog post
(Note: This is a transcript of Jon’s latest creative writing piece. He likes doing them in the form of letters to people. -L)
Jon
I LOVE watchiing The Wrong Trowzers. i love waching Gromit get the brthday card.
Love Jon
Niagara Falls
Yesterday we did our 2nd annual March break trip to Niagara Falls. We thought last year’s visit was the wettest you could get without rain; we were wrong! You can’t see from the photo, but Jon’s hair is soaking wet. You could barely see the falls for the mist.
Afterwards we stopped in at the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory (or as Jon calls it, the “Butterfly Museum”) and admired the lovely butterflies including this huge fellow:
Then we dropped in at Olson Foods & Bakery in St. Catharines; partly to see if they carried cocoa nibs (haven’t come across them within walking distance and I’m too lazy to do a protracted Toronto search), but mostly to give Jon a thrill. No Anna Olson, alas, but he was quite happy when given a promotional recipe card from Sugar.
Jon was chattering about all the great things he did that day, but for his creative writing project on Tuesday (see above), all he wanted to write about was the Wallace and Gromit DVD he watched Monday evening. C’est la vie!
Sugar
The past few weeks when Jon gets home from school he’s been enthusiastically watching the baking show Sugar on the Food Network. I think Anna Olson‘s use of food Jon knows about and loves (sugar! maple syrup!! chocolate!!!) is one attraction; also, every time she goes “whoops!” or “mmmm”, Jon thinks that’s hilarious for some reason.
On Friday Sugar featured goodies made with lemons. Jon decided he wanted to make something with lemons, too, so on Saturday we made the show’s lemon squares. Jon helped scoop and add ingredients whenever he could (eggs were a riot), and he was very pleased with himself when the squares were finished. (He also happily glugged down about an eighth of a cup of pure lemon juice while making the dessert. Yecch!)
Unfortunately, along the way the cooling pan somehow managed to go “splat” on the floor, so the dessert ended up a mess. But it still tasted great, and Jon was crowing all evening about cooking “just like Anna Olson”!
Jon went to school: Hip, hip hooray!
So Jon did manage to get to school Thursday for the one day before March break. A couple of hours into the school day, we get a phone call from his teacher (uh oh). It turns out, no, he’s not sick, but there’s something about his hip, the operated-on one (UH OH) – it’s really sticking out and almost looks dislocated. The physiotherapist said she didn’t see anything wrong, and it doesn’t seem to be causing him any pain, but have a look at it when he gets home.
When Jon got home we took a gander at Jon’s hip. Looked fine to us (which is not to say that it looks “normal”; just no different from usual). All we can figure is that 1) Jon’s lost weight from his flu, which makes his (now bony) hip look like it juts out even more than usual; and 2) the teacher and E.A.s hadn’t really looked at Jon for two weeks (he being away from school ‘n’ all) and freaked out when they actually observed his hip at close range (it does look a bit weird, for the uninitiated).
Ah well, this kind of non-event event is a bit of a trial for the nerves, but it beats a real emergency any day!