PhotoStory Friday - Baking

The other night I made Brownies fo our dessert.... an event which Buddy enjoyed, for many different reasons!!

FIRST, he got to help stir.... THEN... he got to lick the scraper!!

Wow he licked that scraper right clean.... not a speck of chocolate left on it!

Look at that grin.....

I think he enjoyed this part even MORE than when he got to eat a Brownie!





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Playing on the Snow...

Chuck takes Buddy out for a "wee!" (toboggan) most nights when we get home, then they go and play in the snow:

Monkey see, monkey do....

She stopped and fell down... that must be what I'm supposed to do right now too!

Wait for me!!

Strange place for a chat?

52 New Recipes - Chicken something or another

I cooked a whole chicken for Saturday, since I was expecting company, but the weather turned nasty, and they weren't able to make it.

So I had most of a chicken left over. All we ate on Saturday was the legs.

So I put a couple of inches of water in the dutch oven.

Poured in some frozen beans.

Pulled the chicken breast and any remaining meat off the bone and tossed it in, in large chunks.

Stirred.

Thought it looked a little too liquid, so added rice

Put on a pot of potatoes, with the thought of making a Sheppard's-pie like creation.

Took another look, and decided that maybe the potatoes were no longer needed, so they became a side dish. The chicken was pretty much shredded by this point.

It was very good with bbq sauce.... kinda like a chicken stew or something!

52 New Recipes - Homemade Vanilla Pudding

Ingredients
2 cups milk
1/2 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon butter

Directions
In medium saucepan over medium heat, heat milk until bubbles form at edges. In a bowl, combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Pour into hot milk, a little at a time, stirring to dissolve. Continue to cook and stir until mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. Do not boil. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla and butter. Pour into serving dishes. Chill before serving.

Big Boy Bed

A few weekends ago, while changing the sheets, I decided to take the front rail off of Buddy's bed, so that he'd have a 'big boy bed.'

Here he is, demonstrating how he's going to sleep:

And, actually sleeping:

He fell out once the first night. I didn't hear the 'thud,' but heard him crying. When I got to his room, there was a little bundle of blankets on the floor, squirming around. He only fell out one other time since then.

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When he was sick last weekend, he never left the bed, just sat on the edge and called for us until we went to see what was up.

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And then a few mornings ago, I woke up to hear him whining "bummmmmm....... bummmmmmm" and thought 'what the heck?" When I got in there, again, he was sitting on the edge, and soaked.

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The night before however, his Daddy found him reading a story in the hallway at three in the morning.... so the times he does need us, he doesn't leave the bed, but when he doesn't need us, he gets out!!

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On Toilet Training.....

Buddy will be two in April.

He is not ready for 'active' toilet training yet.

However, he is starting to show signs of getting ready to be ready.

On the weekend, his diaper was bothering him.... and he looked at me expectantly, while grabbing his rear, saying "bum? bum?" Asking for a bum change... definitely a good sign.

He loves to stand over the toilet while it's flushing, and wave and yell "bye bye! bye bye!" to the contents.

He'll sit on the toilet for short periods, and once last week, nearly gave himself a swirly trying to climb on.

At daycare, there's a teddy that he really likes... a few times when I've been picking him up, he's decided that Teddy needs a bum change, and grabs him, takes him over to the changing station, puts him down, and then reaches up to where the cubby's are, looking at myself and his care provider, like "how come you aren't changing his bum? He needs a bum!"

Oh, and he swiped a diaper out of the diaper bag, and attempted to put it on Carlton bear the other day.

Also, let's not forget when I walked past the upstairs bathroom, to find that he had put his trainer seat on the toilet, and was in the process of putting "baby" (his dolly), on the seat. Poor Baby didn't have a big enough bum though, and his toes nearly hit the water!!

So right now, when we change him, we'll ask if he needs to pee in the toilet, and set him on it for a few minutes. He's yet to actually DO anything, but at least he isn't scared of it. And this way, when he really is ready, it'll be something that he's been doing for awhile.

Wordful Wednesday - Feb 10

Remember when they went sledding last year???

We have quite a bit less snow this year.. not enough to build a ramp of any sorts like we have in the past.

Coming to the realization that deadweight going up an incline = very difficult.

Helping him climb on.....

And the push.....

"Weeeeeeee"

"Is he laughing or crying??"

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