Carl gets to swing!

Carl swung on a swing for the first time this afternoon!  Does he look like he enjoyed it? 

He could only open his eyes on the back swing for the sun

What a chunky monkey!!!

He was holding on tight while giggling & sticking out his tongue

This is a really weird picture, but you can see his first teeth!

What is up with the tongue???

Hmmm, with much swinging brings deep concentration

Jack had a ball of course, he really seemed to enjoy getting to swing with his baby brother

He must like his tongue a bit...

  Things are going well here.  Checking out a new church tomorrow.  I was looking at their website today and they have 3 cry rooms for parents with "rowdy" children.  Or as they spelled it, roudy.  Is it bad that I edit websites, magazines and pretty well anything with words in my head?  Gives me something to do I suppose.  (No cracks about my grammar people!)
   Jack is starting to string words together and has really got his please and thank you down.  He's gotten very good at not needing prompts.  He's becoming the manners police though, if he thinks Dada or I should have said thank you for something he stares at us and goes tank youuu tank youuu tank youuu.  I'm sorry Jack, I don't really want to say thank you after you hand me a live FLY!!!  Yeah, he caught a fly.  I guess it's good, I really don't like fly's though.  Icky poo.   Speaking of icky poo, Jack is kinda sorta starting potty training, wheeee.  I want him to use the potty I just don't want to have to clean up the pee trails on the carpets and cleanser out the potty, um, pot.  I'm so big, look at me, I can use my own potty, and it makes me feel so very very proud, when everybody cheers out loud!  That's my jam these days folks. 
   Carl is just about ready to crawl.  He gets up really high and rocks back & forth.  Only a matter of time before I need to buy a tracking collar.  He's getting the hang of eating, only about half of the bowl of cereal gets on him now.  Progress!  He has his two top middle teeth now & the bottom ones are trying their darndest to come out and join them.  These boys are growing up way too fast!

Jack is saying ewwww while looking at this

Lookit meeeeeee!

   We're getting ready to head to VA next weekend.  We must be completely crazy.  We're driving straight up (11 hours normally) right after Jordan gets off work on Friday.  We figure it will save us some time driving through the night since we won't be stopping for the boys.  Need to raid the coin jar for some espresso funds!  We're only staying for 2 days and it's turning into the same stress ball as the last time I went up with the boys.  You want to pack everything possible in, but with two babies who are going to be spending a lot of time in their car seats and two parents who will be lacking sleep, it's tough to get everything worked in.  I guess that's what we get for moving so far from home!  I would say maybe one day we'll get to move back homeward, but I gotta tell you, Tennessee is starting to grow on me.  Besides, I wasn't kidding about wanting to move to Montana.  Moving here has shown me that we can make it "alone".
   Our first co-ed softball game is on the 1st.  Jordan may be playing on the mens team on Monday.  He strained his hamstring at practice though, so maybe not. 
   We kind of met some neighbors last night as we walked around the block.  They have a black lab that was always on their fenced deck so when the boys & I took our daily walk Jack would always stop and say hello.  He'd stand there on the sidewalk and bark and then the dog barks back and on and on until I move us along.  The couple have an 8 month old daughter as well as a dog, whew!  It probably has about the same energy as a Jack though, except I can't put Jack in a crate if he gets too hyper.  Dang.
   Oh!  The house next door to us was just put up for sale today!  Who wants to move down here?  Come on now!  There's a Bass Pro Shop opening at the Pyramid, you can get a job there.  Huzzah!

Complete Breakfast Muffins

To make Bacon & Eggs in Toast Cups you need to make some squarish bread round. 

There's a lot of leftover bread so it's good to have someone who likes crusts.  What Jack didn't eat I used in a baked spaghetti type dish I threw together, it was amayzazing but I didn't take any pictures.

Your base, I used wheat cause that's what we had, added a nice density though

Stuff the bread into your muffin pan

Cook your bacon for just a couple minutes and then fit it into the pan and add some cheese, we used cheddar and mexican blend

Put in the oven for about 5 minutes to crisp up the bacon a bit more

Watch my one handed egg cracking skillz

Ooooh yeah

You're just letting most of the white out here

See?  Just a pinch of white with the yolk

Put the egg into the cups and season to your liking.  I put salt, pepper, onion powder & garlic powder

Artsy fartsy shot

Put it in the oven until the white goes white and the yolk is to your liking, I did for about 10ish minutes, we don't like no runny yolks heeyah

The kid test, cautious...

Dada digging in.  Psssshhhh, a fork, geeze...

Hmmmm

Doesn't that look delectable?  These were quite tasty and fun.  It'd probably be a bit easier to just make bacon, eggs & toast, but this is just a unique way to eat breakfast.  Everyone liked them, Jordan did request that the eggs be scrambled before going into the cup next time.  That would be less wasteful as far as the egg whites go, but if you use egg whites anyway then it wouldn't matter I suppose.  Anyone know what I can make with 5 egg whites?

 

 

S'mores cups

Got all the the makings for a s'mores cups party!

Special treat for us this week.  Found the recipe on another blog and decided to give it a go.

You need a little muscle man to crush up some graham crackers

The super

A super lock bag is key as well

Pour it into a bowl with some butter

Mix it all together

Add some powdered sugar

Mix some more

Yeah, you guys are doing it right!

Put it by the tablespoon-full in a mini cupcake pan

That's the ticket!

Make little indentations

Whaddya mean I can't have any???

Gotta have the chocolate

Break it up

Taste test (not a necessary step, but essential for quality control)

Halve some marshmallows

Put chocolate in the cracker cups and then put the marshmallows on top

Oooh, those are looking good!  (yes, we were being careful with it being a hot oven.  I know what you're thinking.  :-)  Jack is very aware of what hot means.  It's hot Jack.  fhwoooshhhaooihhjspittleshoooo (that's Jack blowing on something hot))

Best part is, you get to eat them when they're done!

Gooooey

Hmmm, what bold nuances of flavor...

Huh, mama, I do believe this gooey creation has left a part of itself on my fingers

  Anywho, we had fun making these.  I will do it different next time though.  The amount of crackers they call for only makes 15 cups instead of the 24 the recipe said it would make.  I would also use butter, I used margarine this time ($0.88 vs $3.46) and it didn't burn off like butter would have so the crust was not at all crusty and was soft and frankly rather unpleasant.  Buuut, for a s'mores lover like me it was pretty stupendous otherwise!  More Colville cooking creations tomorrow!