Mom always said that she had "Sweet Toots!" Yeah, right, whatever! Kade has learned the word "toot" and so whenever I toot (on those very very rare occasions) or anybody else toots, he'll always announce, "Mommy Toot!" or "Charlie Toot!" or "Kade toot!" or "Daddy toot!"... Yesterday as Aaron and I were playing with the boys before bedtime, I will admit to passing some gas. Shocking, I know. Kade was apparently rather shocked, too, because he said, "Daddy toot!". No matter how much Aaron tried to convince him that it was me that tooted, Kade was adamant... "Daddy toot!"
And I didn't even bribe him!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Daddy Toot!
Thursday, March 27, 2008
As promised...
Here is my recipe for Lemon Bars/ Chocolate Orange bars. The lemon bar recipe is one of my favorites.
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 powdered sugar
2 cups flour
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp lemon zest
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
Preheat oven 350 degrees
- Beat butter and powdered sugar until smooth. Gradually blend in flour, just until a soft dough forms. Press evenly into a 9x13 pan. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown.
- In another bowl, combine the eggs, sugar, zest, and juice, beating until blended. Gradually blend in the flour and baking powder. *important-- if you add the flour/baking powder in with the other ingredients at the same time, the chewy upper crust does not form.
- Spread evenly over cooked base, and bake 25 mintues longer. Place on wire rack to cool completely. Sift powdered sugar over top.* The lemon bars will cut more easily and keep their shape better if cut when cooled completely.
*Orange zest/juice or lime zest/juice can be replaced for the lemon juice if desired.
*To make Chocolate Orange bars, replace the lemon zest/juice with orage. The crust recipe follows:
1 cup butter.margarine, softened.
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cup flour
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Potty Training Video from Japan
A friend of mine has been following my blog about Kade potty-training and saw this video on YouTube and sent it to me. HYSTERICAL! AND so typical of Japanese people. I LOVE IT! So, since I can't easily post videos on my blog, here we go!
Maybe I should start singing this song to Kade when he needs to go poop. Already we do a cheer for him (if I try to do it without Charlie moving his hands like a Cheerleader, Kade ALWAYS asks for "Baby Ra-ra!")
Ra-ra ree-ree! you can go pee-pee
Ra-ra roop! you can go poop!
Ra-ra ree-ree! you can go pee-pee
Ra-ra roop! you can go poop!
Yey! (cheer madly like a muppet)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Jacobson Park
Today was such a beautiful day so Chelsea and I took our girls to Jacobson park! Everyone else was also taking advantage of the as well. There were LOTS of people there!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Experimental Cook Amaree
Well, as most people in my family know, I LOVE to cook. And, I'm getting pretty good at just "making things up" without using a cookbook, and having it taste pretty darn good. I also love to try new recipies, and am constantly scouring my gazillion cookbooks or the internet for an interesting recipe, especially when I'm low on ingredients (the other day I made some peanut-butter noodles with veggies for dinner... OH they were good! Whoddah thunk peanut butter and spaghetti noodles would go together? No me!). Tweaking recipes is a given... I am not one for following recipes all the time... but so far I have had few failures.
And then there are those days when I am PURELY experimental. I take recipes that I am familiar with and totally shake things up. Like today. I have a great recipe for lemon bars (Not Missys... but only because my microwave is HORRID!) and have a huge affinity for the chocolate/orange flavor combination... Yes... Chocolate Orange bars have been created. They are still in the oven, so I can't give you any feedback, but if they turn out good.... and they do smell good as they're baking... then I will share the recipe... And, if they're good, Aaron will get some in the mail. Yummy-licious!
BTW- I didn't use my cool Bakers-Edge pan, only because I wanted a huge 9x13 pan worth of orange bars. I hope I don't regret it...
Update
Well, they turned out pretty good. Interesting, but pretty good. I think I might modify the chocolate shortbread recipe I have... it called for too much salt (I should have known better!). My friend Quinn liked the orange bars... I will send some to Aaron and see what he thinks. I don't like my 9x13 pan, however. The more I use it, the less I like it. Shortbread is not supposed to stick. Chewy Granola bars aren't supposed to stick. And neither of them come off this glass pan! Frustrating!!! I guess I will just have to grease the pan every time... I will post the recipe later :)
Goodbye old yucky kitchen faucet- HELLO to pretty new shiny one!
We bought a new kitchen faucet and two bathroom faucets a few weeks ago, and on Saturday Adam installed the new kitchen one!! It looks SO much better... see for yourself! (it's amazing how one little change affects the whole look of the kitchen)
Before:
Before:
After:
Sunday, March 9, 2008
New School Prayer
I got this in an e-mail and thought it was interesting. So, share it I will...
New School Prayer
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen !
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Kade at his best.
Here are a couple of cute things Kade does.... He LOVES to put on "hats" (anything that can go on his head). A sock that he drapes over his head... newspaper... buckets... headbands... it doesn't matter what it is. If it goes on the head, it is a HAT!
He also loves tickling people. It's so funny! "tee-ko tee-ko tee-ko! Tee-ko daddys feet!" He will tickle anybody's feet, tickle Charlie... Tickle tickle tickle!!!
Oh, he is learning and imitating and soaking in everything he sees and hears! I just wish I was a better role-model. I need to start doing more behaviors that I want him to imiate and less that I don't... ::sigh:: At least he'll make me a better person, right? And I perhaps should start imitating him a little more sometimes... going to bed at 7:00... running around naked... pooping on the floor... throwing major tantrums... (ok... just kidding with the last three...)
This is our response.
I owe it to you all... have no personal blog to post this.....
1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
Autumn – A name everyone seemed to agree with and like.
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Autumn – “me no go to big girl bed, I lay down mommy”… hmm… some little stinker didn’t want to go to bed tonight.
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
Autumn – If it involves a green crayon, I love it!
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Autumn – I think I’m a vegetarian… I don’t like meat!
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
Autumn – I have my baby bear, my baby monkey, my baby Jocelyn (and if it concerns “Baby Things” she is saying this in a high pitched baby voice.
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH
YOU?
Autumn – Of course! Im the funniest person alive!
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?
Autumn – Im learning from the best, and am really working on it… example:
Mommy: “Are you my little princess?”
Autumn: “No, Im Autumn!”
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
Yep. (for the both of us)
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
Autumn: Will daddy catch me?
10. Favorite cereal?
Autumn: Mucky Charms (Exact wording)
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Autumn: Mommy wont buy me lace up shoes… L She wants me to learn how to put my own shoes on!
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?
Autumn: “I strong, Daddy strong, Mommy? No strong..”
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
Autumn: She is already jumping up and down at the thought of ice cream, period….
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
Autumn: I see if they pay any attention to me… I need 100% of it!
15. RED OR PINK?
Autumn: Why not green? (although pink it okay)
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
Autumn: I get sleepy (?)
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
Autumn: Probably mommy.
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
Autumn: I don’t have pants on tonight, its “jumbo” t-shirt night.
20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
Autumn: A cookie that I really was not supposed to get because I didn’t eat my dinner.
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
Autumn: Im sleeping.
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE
Autumn: GREEN…. (I hide green crayones EVERYWHERE!!!! I want them all to myself!!!!)
23. FAVORITE SMELLS
Autumn: “Motion”… meaning, lotion…
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE
PHONE
Autumn: Hmmm… I think I called elmo last, although I could have spoken to cookie or mickey mouse….
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
Autumn: I like EVERYONE.
26. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH?
Autumn: FOOTBALL… “Go Cats!”, and yes, I watch and cheer them on with daddy and pops.
27. HAIR COLOR?
Autumn: Dirty Blonde?
28. EYE COLOR?
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Nope
30. FAVORITE FOOD?
Autumn: Macaroni and cheese
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Autumn: I tend to not be phased by anything scary either! If its scary, its in “trouble” and I tell it to go to “time out” and everything is okay from there.
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
Autumn: Pink.
34. SUMMER OR WINTER?
Autumn: “Snowman outshide?”… She LOVES “snowman”, which is what she is now calling the snow.
35. HUGS OR KISSES?
Autumn: Nose kisses, baby kisses, monster kisses, honk honk, boinks, and squish squishes. If you have been around Autumn, you know what these are.
36. FAVORITE DESSERT?
Autumn: Suckers
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
Autumn: If it gets me attention, I will do it!
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
Autumn: I respond to EVERYTHING. Watch out!
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
Autumn: “Its Okay Book”
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
Leopard print
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T. V. LAST NIGHT?
Autumn: Yo Gabba Gabba (I watched it about 4 times)
42. FAVORITE SOUND?
Autumn: Monkeys chattering!
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
Autumn: Yucky Bug!!
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
Autumn: Grannys house?
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
Autumn: “Wanna see my butt?” as awful as it is, she is VERY amused by this, and is VERY proud of her “Baby butt”!
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
Autumn:
47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?
Dunno.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
A Day at the Park
Yesterday was such a beautiful day, so Chelsea brought Autumn over and we went to the park close to my house. Joselyn tried out the baby swing and LOVED it!
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Matching Outfits
Too bad jos was in a bad mood and didn't want to take a good picture. There's always next time! Autumn was very excited about the matching outfits though, and it was definitely fun. We have a few others to look forward to in the future!
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