Baylor and I made chicken corn soup this weekend. I brought the step ladder over to where he could watch and of course that lead to helping. I had the shaker only slightly opened for this but he managed to drop it in the pot after this was taken. Don't worry, the stock was cool and the stove was not on. No babies were harmed. He enjoyed it and it worked for us. He is not much into self entertaining so it has been a struggle for me to get cooking done sometimes. I think we have found a solution and he was very good with directions, albeit with a lot of enthusiasm at times.
Buddy and YaYa came over for soup. Baylor likes to ask for Buddy but then not want anything to do with him once he is around. Baylor showed off his tractor books with they both enjoyed. Dad is a farmer's son and loves John Deere's also. They both agreed the soup was delicious.
We also made brownies, from a mix, to make Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownie Balls for lunch at work on Tuesday.
He exprienced the joys of batter tasting. Yum. Again, don't worry, we get our eggs from a farm in Juniata County and they are not recalled. Still a bit of a risk but it is part of life and I cannot protect him forever.
Later we made The Mother Load Lay.ered Cookie Bars from Pic.ky Palette. I don't know how to link to another site yet, I just don't want my blog to come up on a search engine for her site. The base is store bought sugar cookie tube. That is the first time I bought that! The second layer is a chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough. This is the butter and sugars mixed together and Baylor kept asking to taste it. Nothing bad in there! He liked the hand mixer and called it the noisy and would ask when we were going to use it again. Not in that full sentence format of course but I knew what he was asking. He held his hands to his chest when I asked him to keep his hands away when the noisy was on.
Ok so I let him taste it too.
Two layers down.
The next layer was a peanut butter, sugar, and egg mixture.
He learned how to work the sifter.
The last layer was a chocolate chip cookie batter. Bake and wait for yummy goodness. Baylor likes saying yummy when he is eating and he does not know how much it means to me when he says it. Toddlers have very discrimminating palettes so if he likes it I know I did a good job.
The finished product is very dense and very good. She suggests drizzling the bars with chocolate but even I could not bring myself to do that. Next time, if there is one, I will bake them a bit longer. But yummy all the same.
August 23 is Lori's birthday and we took Baylor to a playground. Ever since I had him, I have begun to change my focus of birthdays and Christmas. They are a big deal for little ones and I am fine with a phone call and a birthday wish for me. I even stopped giving cards to close family members. Though I do have a very good friend who I love to find cards for and she always sends the best cards. For Christmas, I am grateful when I am able to spend time with my family. So we did not plan a big event for Lori's 40th but had a wonderful family morning at the playground.
Baylor did the slides and the swings but what he really liked was just running. The entire floor is padded somehow and the construction is with trex boards. We were there for over an hour. It was a really beautiful morning for August. We did a little shopping at K.mart and Baylor fell asleep after that. I ran into Weis for a few things for dinner. I picked up Neato Burrito and a Dairy Queen ice cream cake and we headed home. Lori started passing a kidney stone while in the car. She can feel them moving down her tubes and they are very painful. No one can tell her why she gets so many but she has them so often they are nearly routine for her. She went to bed when we got home and Baylor slept a bit longer. When he woke up he was asking for his bean soup so we made that too. He loves black beans so he had them and some chicken for a late lunch. We played outside after the soup was made. He had a good amount of raspberries from the garden. I love that he is eating them again this year. Last year when he was new to food we would go out and eat black, red and yellow raspberries until he could not hold any more. Like mother, like son.
It is a bit over grown and neglected but we get enough to eat every night to make us all happy.
I had a great weekend, and I am really glad I was able to take the time of to spend with my family and was able to visit with friends.
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