Kids in the Kitchen: Pigs in a Blanket

Sunshine helped me make Pigs in a Blanket for dinner tonight. It was her first time eating this and I was unsure if she'd like it or not, but she was super excited to help me make it. I didn't take any pics while we were actually making it, but here is the recipe we followed from Pillsbury.com. (I used chicken hot dogs and reduced fat crescent rolls. The recipe calls for 8, but we only made 4, so we just made the rest of the rolls as rolls.) Here is our finished product:




And here is my little chef enjoying her meal!

Mommy and Me Night #1

In honor of my baby girl turning 2 1/2 years old today, I decided we need to start having a "Mommy and Me" night once a month around the 13th of each month (she was born on July 13). We had our first one tonight and we had a blast! We went to the mall and into Build-A-Bear. Sunshine chose to create a horse that she named "Horsey" and then she picked out a tee-shirt for her; one that says Happy Birthday of all things! Heheh.... Then we rode the carousel and train at the mall too! We also got dinner together out. It was a fun night, even though she displayed some of that toddler attitude that I "love" so much! ;) I hope we can continue these nights as she gets older and that they create some great memories for both of us.

Potty Learning: Part Deux!

Sunshine has been doing GREAT with potty learning! I am so proud of her. I wouldn't say that we are diaper free during the days, but we are getting there! Each night when she comes home from school I take off her diaper and she runs around the house "neked" (as she calls it) for the evening until bedtime. She knows when she has to go and gets soooooooo EXCITED when she does! (I am sure the M&Ms, after she goes, are helping along the excitement!) The past two nights that I have taken off her diaper she has been DRY! WOW! And then she runs to the potty!! WOO HOO! This weekend I am hoping we can really concentrate on it and get it down!!!

Kids in the Kitchen: Bark

(Sunshine and I acutally made this right before Christmas, but I am just getting around to posting it now!)

We made bark candy to give out as gifts at Christmas for Sunshine's teachers; we made two flavors - strawberry w/milk chocolate and cherry w/milk chooclate. Here is a pic of our ingredients.


Sunshine tried to crush the candy using a rolling pin, but she didn't have the muscle power behind it to make then into pieces.


Then we moved onto using a small food processor to crush the candies. She helped me open each of the packages and then we crushed them all up. When I turned on the FP, Sunshine covered her ears and said, "The noise! Noise! NOISE!" We had just watched The Grinch cartoon so I have no doubt that's where that came from! LOL!


Here is our crushed candy:


Then I put the chocolate chips into a double boiler and melted them down. I spread it on to two cookie sheets lined with wax paper then sprinkled the crushed candy over it. I put the two trays in the fridge over night and TA-DA!!!! the next day we had YUMMY candy!!


Cherry


Strawberry

2009 Review

Here is a review of the past year on my blog! What a year it has been! I want to share you some of my most memorable highlights from the year. Enjoy!

(I started blogging here at blogger in March so this isn't actually a whole year, but its close enough right???)

:MARCH:
*cut eye teeth
*hubby gets a job after his layoff and Sunshine has her first day in childcare
*first ear infections
*sunshine says "bubbles" for the first time
*we bought her this house for her birthday:
















*Sunshine learns to open the doors in our house

:APRIL:
*first try at meeting the Easter Bunny=failure
*second try meeting the Easter Bunny=success
*colored Easter eggs











*Sunshine ends up in the hospital
*belly update #1
*belly update #2

:MAY:
*Sunshine answers daddy's cell phone all by herself!
*potty learning hopes
*commonly heard words from Sunshine

:JUNE:
*we begin Tot-School
*we begin using time-out
*Sunshine goes pee on the potty
*we go see the sand castle competition at the beach

:JULY:
*Sunshine has her fist slushie
*a visit to the butterfly place and the Boston aquarium
*Sunshine sees her first movie on the big screen
*happy 2nd birthday Sunshine
*visit to Squam Lakes Science Center
*another beach trip

:AUGUST:
*Reach for the Stars book program at childcare
*Sunshine discovers she can stick things up her nose
*we took a mini-vacation












:SEPTEMBER:
*we went to a local fair
*pigtails finally

:OCTOBER:
*more Tot-School

:NOVEMBER:
*yet more Tot-School

:DECEMBER:
*fun in the snow
*learning about baby Jesus
*a visit with Santa
*potty learning

So that's my year in review. There are many things that I did not blog about that now as I look back makes me feel kind of sad: Halloween, apple/pumpkin picking, meeting Curious George, the making of her Halloween costume, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Oh well here is too a plentiful blogging year in 2010!!!