Who Knew?!?

This is kinda a random post. But maybe there is someone out there that also hates cilantro that enjoy this little clip!

I was at a baby shower where we were making up freezer meals. One of the recipes called for cilantro.  I definitely didn't volunteer for the job of chopping it.  The girls at the shower thought it was pretty amusing/surprising how much I disliked it. Everything about it is just totally icky to me.

I then randomly came across this video and now it all makes sense...

Also, for all those moms out there, what do you feed your picky eater? Elsa is a hard one to feed. She rather me just help her eat pureed baby food than anything else. She did eat a whole hot dog the other day but I really rather not have her eating hot dogs every day! 

Lunch is starting to become a battle everyday and so I thought maybe someone out there has some good healthy ideas that their toddlers like that I haven't tried or thought of yet. Please share!

Winner!

Look at this cute coin purse that I won a blog giveaway by OMGMom!

As she said in this post, I now have a place for all the change that is always on the bottom of my diaper bag. What a fun first blog giveaway win!

What's better than a cookie?

A cookie within a cookie! 

I made these cookies for Alex's Sunday school class that he teaches every week. They were a hit, especially with the missionaries, so we made some more to take to them. Thought I'd share the recipe. (E's weekly post is below to check out)

• 1 stick softened butter
• 6 Tablespoons sugar
• 6 Tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 ¼ cup flour
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 11 broken pieces Oreo Cookies ( we liked having big chunks of the cookies)
• 1 cup chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream butter, and sugars until well combined. Add egg and vanilla until mixed well.

2. Place flour, baking soda and salt into a large bowl, stir to combine. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet ingredients then stir in oreos and chocolate chips until just combined.

3. With a medium cookie scoop, scoop onto baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes or until cooked, but still soft. Let cool on baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.

 **We tripled the recipe to try and use most of the oreos in the package **

As of late...

Just a warning that this is kinda a long post. Here's an update....

Read some good books:

not finished this one yet-but good so far

 Worked on some projects:

 Baby-legs for E

Did Laundry with the help of E:

Played with E (she is a whole 8 months today!)

Most babies play on their play-mats, but E likes to play under it!

Swung at the park

 

Cheered on E as she tries to full on crawl

She even gets rewarded for all her hard work at the end with kisses from Laddie!

A perfect reenactment of de Poix family nights

Saw this in the Sunday paper and it was too spot on not to keep a record of it.

Just a little excited

for this....

 

Outer Banks, NC (Kitty Hawk) with the Pease Fam

(this is literally the deck we will be sitting on overlooking the ocean!)

August can't come soon enough!

Hair

Anyone that knows Elsa, knows she was born with lots of hair and still has a good amount of hair on her head. It's mostly in the middle and Alex and I have discovered that you can do all sorts of stuff to it! Mostly hairdos that we would never take her out of the house with, but we hope that one day she finds this as amusing as we did!

The Mohawk

The bow in the middle

Bangs and the bald spot cover up!

The part down the middle- the worst but very funny!