This is what little boys do....or at least mine anyway. He crawls into things then starts whining when he can't get back out
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
What boy's do
This is what little boys do....or at least mine anyway. He crawls into things then starts whining when he can't get back out
Pedigree for Babies now too?
If you've ever wondered how dog food taste, wonder no more. Just ask my 8 month old. That's right, my resident explorer decided to be the taste tester and enjoy a meal with Charlotte yesterday afternoon. Phoenix plays very well by himself and actually seems to prefer being by himself. He's an oh so cool loner. So most of the day he just crawls around exploring (or destroying) the house. So yesterday's he's crawling around and I hear him go into the kitchen, I start walking towards him and see him head straight for the dog food. I tell him to stop he turns around, looks at me and keeps going. I scoop him up and we go about our day. About 20 minutes later I hear Charlotte chomping on her food, and I say to myself 'Let me go make sure Phoenix isn't eating with her".....Sure enough there Phoenix is, sitting on his knees, food in both hands and food in his mouth! I screamed "No!!!" and he just looked at me, I scooped him up pulled the food out of his mouth and of course he cried. I called my mom to make sure he didn't need to have his stomach pumped and tried to wash the taste (and smell) out of his mouth with juice and Gerber Puffs! Of course after I realized he was fine I realized I should've taken a picture because he looked so cute! This morning while getting his breakfast ready he tried to scoot over there again.... 
Yesterday also marked the day he started tearing up the steps. So you know what I'm ordering today right? He got to step 5 before I took him down because he was waving and smiling and he was making me nervous. I was really impressed though because he just crawled right up, no hesitation, no fear. Nothing. This week he's also been able to get himself back down to the floor without falling when he's holding onto the furniture.
Yesterday also marked the day he started tearing up the steps. So you know what I'm ordering today right? He got to step 5 before I took him down because he was waving and smiling and he was making me nervous. I was really impressed though because he just crawled right up, no hesitation, no fear. Nothing. This week he's also been able to get himself back down to the floor without falling when he's holding onto the furniture.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Italian lemon cake
Finally tried my Italian Lemon Cake yesterday. I think it turned out really tasty, but like a lot of things when I first started cooking, didn't look so Martha Stewart-ish.
1 white cake mix,prepared
8 oz. cream chees, softened
2 cups powered sugar
1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped to stiff peaks
3 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup powered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
4 tbsp. butter
Prepare cake as directed in a 10" round cake pan or 10" round spring form pan.
Blend cream cheese, powered sugar, and lemon juice together. In a medium bowl, whip heavy whipping cream to stiff peaks. Gently fold into cream cheese mixture and blend by hand. Chill until needed.
Mix flour and powered sugar in small bowl. Crumble butter in and dribble in vanilla extract. The crumbles should be no larger than pea size. If you have trouble crumbling mixture, chill for a few minutes. Chill until needed.
After cake is cooled, cut in half. Spread cream cheese mixture, saving 1/2 cup, on bottom half and carefully place top layer back. Spread rest of cream cheese mixture on the sides of cake. Press crumb topping into sides gently. Chill for 3 hours. Cut into 12 pie shaped slices. Makes 12 servings.
Number of Servings: 12
The only changes I made (some accidental) was adding a few drops of lemon juice when I mixed in the heavy cream to the mixture. I wanted to make sure it was a LEMON cake. I also did not seem to get the crumbling of the butter right so therefore I could not spread it correctly. But I think next time I make this I may do something else for the crumble because it was to buttery for me.
It's a very rich cake so make sure you have a glass of milk to wash it down!
1 white cake mix,prepared
8 oz. cream chees, softened
2 cups powered sugar
1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped to stiff peaks
3 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup powered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
4 tbsp. butter
Directions
Prepare cake as directed in a 10" round cake pan or 10" round spring form pan.
Blend cream cheese, powered sugar, and lemon juice together. In a medium bowl, whip heavy whipping cream to stiff peaks. Gently fold into cream cheese mixture and blend by hand. Chill until needed.
Mix flour and powered sugar in small bowl. Crumble butter in and dribble in vanilla extract. The crumbles should be no larger than pea size. If you have trouble crumbling mixture, chill for a few minutes. Chill until needed.
After cake is cooled, cut in half. Spread cream cheese mixture, saving 1/2 cup, on bottom half and carefully place top layer back. Spread rest of cream cheese mixture on the sides of cake. Press crumb topping into sides gently. Chill for 3 hours. Cut into 12 pie shaped slices. Makes 12 servings.
Number of Servings: 12
The only changes I made (some accidental) was adding a few drops of lemon juice when I mixed in the heavy cream to the mixture. I wanted to make sure it was a LEMON cake. I also did not seem to get the crumbling of the butter right so therefore I could not spread it correctly. But I think next time I make this I may do something else for the crumble because it was to buttery for me.
It's a very rich cake so make sure you have a glass of milk to wash it down!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
You're a wild one Mr. Man
What is it with men and those ridiculous ultimate fighter shows? Shawn's making me watch it, so I decided to post instead...I guess its the same thing as my "thing" with those ridiculous NY, OC, ATL Housewives on Bravo.
Phoenix is constantly in everything. I haven't ordered his gate yet, not for any reason really. I forget about it probably. I have bought him 3 pairs of Robeez this week, but no gate for some reason. I think I'll actually go get it this weekend. So since I haven't gated off his playroom yet I've baby proofed the rest of the downstairs (for the most part) and just let him crawl around all day screaming "Ah! Ah! Ah!". He is fascinated with the weirdest things. The little paint sample's for his room (which will hopefully be completed this weekend. It's all painted just waiting for the mural to be done) he carries around all day. He loves the empty boxes that are still sitting in our kitchen (are you seeing a theme here? We're procrastinators) and this week I've started packing up his too small clothes and he keeps pulling them out of the boxes and dragging them around. But yesterday was the weirdest thing. I was working and he was crawling around and I hear him near his baby chair. Then all of a sudden it gets really quiet....I peak around the arm of the sofa and this is what I see.....
He has some how managed to crawl into the basket on the bottom of his chair! I don't know where he thought he was going or what he was trying to do but I couldn't stop laughing. All the while he is still holding on to his little Asparagus Green paint card.
Did you see this week's edition of Silent Sunday?
He crawled into that's basket all on his own! He's only 8 months old and I already know that I'm in for it! I often find myself giving side glances to those moms with the like 4 year old being pushed around in a stroller as his feet dangle over and drag on the ground and I'm like "What the H?" but then I'm like "Who am I kidding? That'll be me!" I can hear me screaming "Phoenix no! That's glass! Stop it! No! Come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" This kid is going to be wild! I knew he was even in utero (I love that word) but then for those first few weeks he was so zen that Shawn and I thought that's what he was gonna be...yeah. Nope! But I love it! He has so much energy and testosterone all ready. Even in his sleep he's wild and crazy. He grunts himself to sleep. He just oozes boy! I think having a little boy like Phoenix is going to be very fun.
I'm sure all of you are waiting with bated breath to hear how my cake turned out....Yeah not so great. I ended up adding three times the amount of cream cheese hoping it would stiffen and not adding three times the amount of the other ingredients because I didn't have enough. I've heard that baking is an exact science and all the measurements have to be correct. So all though it was semi good, it was not what I wanted. I'm reluctant to post pictures because the cake was lopsided and the creme/icing was runny. But I plan on trying again sometime this week. I will prevail!
Phoenix is constantly in everything. I haven't ordered his gate yet, not for any reason really. I forget about it probably. I have bought him 3 pairs of Robeez this week, but no gate for some reason. I think I'll actually go get it this weekend. So since I haven't gated off his playroom yet I've baby proofed the rest of the downstairs (for the most part) and just let him crawl around all day screaming "Ah! Ah! Ah!". He is fascinated with the weirdest things. The little paint sample's for his room (which will hopefully be completed this weekend. It's all painted just waiting for the mural to be done) he carries around all day. He loves the empty boxes that are still sitting in our kitchen (are you seeing a theme here? We're procrastinators) and this week I've started packing up his too small clothes and he keeps pulling them out of the boxes and dragging them around. But yesterday was the weirdest thing. I was working and he was crawling around and I hear him near his baby chair. Then all of a sudden it gets really quiet....I peak around the arm of the sofa and this is what I see.....
He has some how managed to crawl into the basket on the bottom of his chair! I don't know where he thought he was going or what he was trying to do but I couldn't stop laughing. All the while he is still holding on to his little Asparagus Green paint card.
Did you see this week's edition of Silent Sunday?
He crawled into that's basket all on his own! He's only 8 months old and I already know that I'm in for it! I often find myself giving side glances to those moms with the like 4 year old being pushed around in a stroller as his feet dangle over and drag on the ground and I'm like "What the H?" but then I'm like "Who am I kidding? That'll be me!" I can hear me screaming "Phoenix no! That's glass! Stop it! No! Come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" This kid is going to be wild! I knew he was even in utero (I love that word) but then for those first few weeks he was so zen that Shawn and I thought that's what he was gonna be...yeah. Nope! But I love it! He has so much energy and testosterone all ready. Even in his sleep he's wild and crazy. He grunts himself to sleep. He just oozes boy! I think having a little boy like Phoenix is going to be very fun.
I'm sure all of you are waiting with bated breath to hear how my cake turned out....Yeah not so great. I ended up adding three times the amount of cream cheese hoping it would stiffen and not adding three times the amount of the other ingredients because I didn't have enough. I've heard that baking is an exact science and all the measurements have to be correct. So all though it was semi good, it was not what I wanted. I'm reluctant to post pictures because the cake was lopsided and the creme/icing was runny. But I plan on trying again sometime this week. I will prevail!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Happy Resurrection Day!
When you're a new mommy you take pictures of all kinds of random things. I imagine Phoenix asking me one day "Mom, what did my first Easter basket look like"
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