Friday, 8/20/2010

Katie and I picked Ben up from work tonight and headed North to his brother Spencer's house.  It took us a 1/2 hour to get out of downtown Seattle and another 1/2 hour to get to his house in Lynnwood.  We all ate a bunch of goldfish and graham crackers while we waited for traffic to move.  It was well worth the wait.  Spencer made a delicious meal for us.  He had herb marinated chicken thighs and legs ready to put on the grill when we got there.  They cooked for 40 minutes on indirect medium heat and were never turned over.  The recipe he followed, which I believe was from a Weber Grill cookbook, said to avoid opening the lid on the grill.  The lid was not opened until the 40 minutes were up, and the chicken was perfectly done.  Fantastic flavor!  Well done Spencer!!!

He also had homemade macaroni and cheese for us, complete with a bread crumb topping.  While delicious, we all agreed that it wasn't as cheesy and creamy as we would have wanted it to be.  I know the recipe came from Williams-Sonoma.  Oh, and Spencer made us fantastic margaritas.  To be fair, he uses better ingredients than we usually use;)

Tonight we saw amazing developments from Katie.  First, she told us twice when she needed her diaper changed.  The second time, she went over to her diaper bag and pulled out everything we would need to change her diaper.  When Ben mentioned taking her upstairs to get her ready to go home, she ran to the stairs and started climbing. Then, as it was getting pretty late, she went over to Spencer's patio door, which faces the freeway, and started saying "home" over and over again.  We got the very distinct impression that she knew that she wanted to go home, and she needed a car to get there.