Monday, June 29, 2009

Good Books

Sorry this is SUPER old. I finally got the video working.
When I was with Autumn she asked if I had any lift-the-flap books for Rome. Well, no. I am way too worried that they will get ruined and he is too little. Well, when I was at the thrift store I found one. I figured he could try it out and learn to be nice and if it gets torn then it was only a quarter. Perfect. Rome loves it too!

This is Rome reading one of his favorites. It is about colors and only has a few pages. He loves it.

Can you believe this was only 4 months ago?

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Daddy

I just wanted to put this up for Father's Day.
Josh is such a good dad and loves to play with Rome. It is so cute when Rome goes to him when he comes home from work. He won't even go back to me! It is so great! Rome loves to rough house with him, ride on his shoulders and wear his hat just like Daddy. Josh helps me out so much and tries so hard just to make me happy. He makes me laugh and I love to just hang out with him. He is such a fun dad and I am sure he will be great with the next one too. We love you daddy!

Walking with Daddy

Wonderful Woobie

Rome finally picked a woobie or a lovie! I am so happy! Maybe now he will be a little less attached to ME all the time. Some people don't want thier kids to get attached to a lovie, but he is WAY too attached to me. I think he really needed a security object to help him be on his own. It was really kind of a fluke how it happened. I kept trying to get him to like this taggie blanket I got him and he did not care. Then, one night he pulled this blue blanket out of his toy shelves and I stuck it in his crib with his other blankets. In the morning he kept it. He cuddled with it and dragged it around his room. That was it! Now, he cuddles with his blankie when he goes to bed or down for a nap and he knows it is his blankie. I have started reading him a nighty-night book to put him to bed. It has a blankie in it and he holds up his blankie when we read that page. It is so cute!



Aww, I am so glad you found a blankie little buddy!

Dinner Du Jour

I have a few dinner stories and I thought I would put them together. It is long, but kinda funny!

The first is when I invited the missionaries over for dinner. I was worried they weren't coming because they didn't call me until 4 pm. Then they wanted to eat at 7. I told them that was okay, but we were going to eat at 5. Sorry, I cannot wait until 7 to eat, that is Rome's bedtime. Anyway, I invited my other friends, the Wallaces, over too so we could eat with them. I made a roast chicken that I got from my friend Alissa. It was so good and so easy! Then, I made a salad and my friend brought homemade rolls. It was so good. I also wanted to make a pie because there were strawberries on sale for $1. Yea, really! The strawberry pie was pretty easy. Just cut up strawberries, pile them in the crust and cover with homemade sauce. Done! So, I made the crust, but I use a box and it makes 2. So, I decided to also make a chocolate pie. Not too hard. I looked up a recipe in my trusty Betty Crocker Cookbook. Here it is: 2/3 cup butter, 2/3 cup sugar, 1 cup melted chocolate chips. Yup, that is it. I really should have realized that it was not going to turn out, but my pregnancy brain must be starting early, because I didn't. We ate it, well, we tried. It was TeRrIbLe. How could it not be? It was only chocolate butter and grainy sugar. Yuck! Afterwards, I took out the yucky filling and made a different kind. 1/3 cup milk, 1 cup mini marshmallows, 1 cup chocolate chips. Melt in the microwave and add whip cream. Mmmm! Much better! Sorry Missionaries for making you eat gross chocolate-butter pie!
The Wallaces and the pretty chicken, strawberry pie and bad chocolate pie
the chocolate pie - fixed

#2. Dan, Clare and Abi were coming down to visit Clare's parents for Father's Day. (they live an hour away from me) They wanted to stop by and visit. So, I made them dinner. It was pretty easy (I am all about easy). I just did BBQ ribs in the crock pot, veggies and homemade rolls. (my friend gave me her recipe) It didn't turn out quite right however. The ribs are usually really tender and just fall of the bones, but they didn't. They were still tasty though, so it was okay. The rolls, just didn't want to work. I do not do well with raising things like bread or rolls. I put in extra yeast. It looked like it raised too much in the bread machine. I rolled them into rolls and tried to let them raise again and they did a little, and then they fell. They still tasted okay, but they looked really funny. I don't know what I did, but next time I am skipping the second raise. I also made a cheesecake from a mix. It called for a graham cracker crust, so I made one from scratch. Except, I don't think I measured and there was tons of crust. It was filling the whole pie plate. I kept taking it out until I decided to just make a second one. So, I made 2 cheesecakes. Luckily I had 2 mixes, Strawberry Swirl and Chocolate Heaven. They were supposed to have a whole tub of whipped cream added, but I only had one, so they both got half. They were good, but SUPER sweet. I ate the chocolate one and it made me feel yucky. I really have to quit doing that. I don't need any help feeling sick. Anyway, it was such a nice dinner! The babies played, we ate, we chatted and hung out for a while. Dan and Josh watched Boxing. Altogether, a very pleasant evening. We were so glad you guys could come and visit!

The babies playing, wish I got more pics of you guys and dinner, oh well!

Lastly, Father's Day. Josh's dad wanted us to come up and visit him. I was worried about seeing my parents too in such a short visit, but they were in Spain. I never heard they were going there, but they were not home, so I didn't have to worry. We got up early on Sunday and drove the 6, supposed to be 5, hour drive to Evanston, WY. Rome did not sleep, but loved his Baby Einstein videos. So, yay for DVD players! When we got there we played, showed off Rome's walking, and tried to get him to sleep (yea, right). Then we ate dinner. It was delicious! Steak, crab, asparagus, twice baked potatoes and peach cheesecake with ice cream. Mmmm-mmm. The best part was that Rome loved the crab. Who knew! We thought it would be a funny texture, but he liked it and ate everything we gave him. He did so well with out a high chair and just being tied up with grandpa's belt. Grandpa shared ice cream with him too. What a spoiled kid! It was fun and we are glad we got to see them for Father's day!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Quote of the Day

"Man, your face is looking pregnant already." - Josh
Why thank you, honey. I really needed you to tell me that my face is covered in zits already. How observant of you.

Also, from my babycenter e-mail this week:
"I'm seven weeks pregnant, and I'm having every symptom in the book — from morning sickness to sore breasts. Is it possible to feel huge already?" — Janean
Ditto Janean, ditto. But mostly I feel sick.

Friday, June 19, 2009

My New Diet

Sequel to Story of A Chocolate Bar. It is called the Eatmoore Diet. Have you heard of it? It goes something like this:

Get up...Eat
play...Eatmoore
clean...Eatmoore
take a nap...Eatmoore
feel sick...Eatmoore
feel better...Eatmoore
feed Rome a snack...Eatmoore
go on a walk...Eatmoore
make dinner...Eatmoore
get ready for bed...Eatmoore
Still feel sick... go to sleep.

Sounds like fun right?
Here's the trick, I can't eat chocolate. It totally makes me sick! Ahhhhggg! Chocolate!!! Oh the cruel irony!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Funny Face

Rome learned how to squint his eyes and started pulling a face just to make me laugh. Josh thinks it is creepy, but I laugh every time. It is hilarious!
Yes, you are funny little guy!

Look Who's Walking!

Alright Rome! Not a baby anymore! We kinda tricked him into doing it last night. Then this morning, I told him to get Daddy and he walked from the other bedroom all the way into the living room by himself! Oh, I am so proud!
Video coming soon!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Story of A Chocolate Bar

The other day I ate a chocolate bar.

It was very delicious.

It had caramel in it.

Mmmmmm!

I ate the whole thing.

I felt a little bad about it.

I looked at my friends who are pregnant

And thought if I was pregnant

I could eat the whole chocolate bar

And not feel guilty about it.




Guess I can stop feeling guilty now.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

House Beautiful

Remember when I asked what I could do to make my house look better? Well, Thanks to friends and family now it does. I hope people like it!
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The Dining Room (the kitchen looks better too, I just didn't take a picture)
 
 The Living Room
 
 The Master Bedroom
  The Master Bath
 
 Guest Bed, Bath and Office
 
Baby's Room
 
The Front Garden, Oh So Pretty!

Mommy's Helper

Rome is just so helpful sometimes. Maybe a little too helpful. But he is so cute while he does it!
 
Helping to take all of the tissues out of the box, You didn't want me to test them out?
 
Helping to make dinner while eating a snack.
 
Helping to empty the dishwasher and testing out the silverware and cups, they taste good.
 
Helping to make cupcakes, oh I need a snack now.
 
Helping to get dressed by taking out all of the clothes. I need to see all of my options.
Seriously, how can you be mad at a face like that?

Cupcake Crumble

My friend's boys came over and watched Rome while we went to see Terminator Salvation. (I really liked it!) I told them to pick out a recipe from my new cookbook and I would make it for them. They picked Marble Cupcakes. Great, I wanted to make those. They started out okay, but I knew something was wrong when the batter was really thick. It worked for swirling the cakes, but they never rose and they turned into muffin or cookie texture. Not cake, but still tasty. Then, the frosting. I used frozen cream cheese and it would not set up. I added more sugar, but it was still a very runny glaze. Nothing like the picture. Ugh. I tried to drizzle and marble the frosting anyway. I used chocolate sauce because I don't have caramel. (you know that dumb food color thing) They turned out okay, but I think they look more like spider cakes than marble. The boys liked them and they were still tasty so I guess it doesn't matter. 
I am starting to think there is something missing in these recipes. High altitude maybe? I don't know.