Y Week- Yarn Art

Trip was eager to join me outside for an art project. He loved pouring the glue into the container.

Thank you Auntie Rachel for giving us the colorful yarn!

I diluted the glue with some water, then we were ready to dunk the yarn. Trip put the yarn in the container and then was done with the whole thing. He went off to play and let me do the rest.

I only made a few shapes since Trip wouldn't ever come back to try it.

I let them dry on the waxed paper. They peeled off fairly easily and were stiff enough to hold together.

Y Week- Yogurt Cake

I found this delicious yogurt cake recipe just in time for Y week. It's very simple to make, and tastes even better a day or two after it's made- if it lasts that long, that is. I had a ladies' lunch to attend a few days after we made this cake, so I made a double batch, and put a cooled cake in a Ziplock bag. It was still super moist and delicious when I opened and served it three days after I had baked it.

Trip loves to crack eggs, so I let him help me, which is always an adventure.

His idea of cracking eggs is putting the egg, shell and all, into the bowl. He sure thinks it's fun, though, so I don't mind obliging from time to time.

French Yogurt Cake from the May 2012 issue of Bon Appetit magazine

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
3/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350*. Coat a standard (8 1/2 x 4 1/4") loaf pan with nonstick vegetable oil spray (I used butter). Dust with flour; tap out excess. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Using your fingers, rub sugar with lemon zest in a large bowl until sugar is moist. Add yogurt, oil, eggs, and vanilla; whisk to blend. Fold in dry ingredients just to blend. Pour batter into prepared pan; smooth top. Bake until top of cake is golden brown and a tester inserted into center comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. Let cake cool in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Invert on a wire rack; let cool completely. Can be made up to three days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.

Enjoy!

Y Week- Y Lunches

I've been meaning to do a muffin tin meal for quite some time. Trip's yellow lunch included pear, yellow bell pepper, a hard-boiled egg (which he did not even want to try), corn, yogurt, and cheese. To make the Y on the yogurt, I put a cookie cutter on it, then sprinkled some yellow sprinkles inside.

This yo-yo lunch was super simple as well.

Y Week

I'm finally back! It took us several weeks to do our letter Y activities, but we have finally finished all of our letters.

Trip enjoyed a yellow lunch.

He loves yogurt, so he got to choose some special ones on a couple of different occasions when we were at the store. I usually only buy big containers of the plain stuff and add jam, so he had lots of fun choosing something new and exciting. He also helped me make a delicious lemon yogurt cake.

He thought this yo-yo lunch was pretty cool, especially since it included olives and pickles, two of his favorites.

The only y-related art project that we did was to make designs with yarn soaked in glue.