Yes, you read that right! We had a little mishap with our camera on Monday night. I was getting ready to take a picture of my advent calendar but I needed to be higher so I grabbed a kitchen chair and attepted to get up on it. No way was that happening though because I lost my balance and fell backwards onto the kitchen floor and the camera went flying through the air, batteries flew out and it was on with the lens out so the lens was completely bent and unworkable. What a disaster! So, how could I live without my camera? I use it almost daily and with Phia needing a 14-month picture today, Halloween, we are going to Peppermint Place and Cabelas on Monday, the zoo in a little over a week, Christmas, yada, yada. It was simple that I need a camera. We found one at Costco last night and I am loving it. I guess something good came from falling off a chair and having a sore tailbone.
Phia is loving playing on the couch. She crawls to one end and looks up and smiles and heads back to the other end. She even likes blowing raspberries on my parents leather furniture. Here she is doing her thing.
New hairstyle we tried on Monday.
Phia has been horrible at eating her dinner lately so we finally just gave her the playe and a fork and let her go. She had fun playing but only managed to actually eat 1/2 piece of pineapple.
She is amazed with water bottles and has been since we went camping. She was playing with one this morning while I was straightening the kitchen.
After a tuna fish sandwich and getting ready to head for a nap.
Her new favorite thing is lining all her bath toys up on the edge of the tub and clapping. She also loves to sit in the classic Freeman stance in the tub. She sits with her legs out and spread apart a bit and then lays with her chest on the bottom of the tub. Her shoulders are next to her feet with her arms going way past her toes. It doesn't seem to bother her!
Yesterday my mom and I made a delicious pumpkin dessert so I thought I'd share the recipe. Be warned, it makes 8 dozen single cookies, so about 4 once you sandwich them.
picture from http://doughmesstic.blogspot.com/2008/10/fat-fat-fat.html
Pumpkin Whoopie Cookies
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 TBSP cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground fresh nutmeg
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup canola oil
3 cups chilled pumpkin puree
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare to baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and spices. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, whisk to sugars and oil together. Add the pumpkin puree and whisk to combine thoroughly. Add the eggs and vanilla and whisk until combined.
Sprinkle the flour mixture over the pumpkin mixture and whisk until completely combined.
Use a small ice cream scoop with a release mechanism to drop healing TBSP of the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, about 1 inch apart.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the cookies are just starting to crack on top and a toothpick inserted into the center of a cookie comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool completely on the pan while you make the filling. They will look more like mini cakes then cookies, so don’t panic about that.
- 1 stick butter, Room Temperature
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese, Room Temperature
- 3 1/2 cups Confectioners Sugar, maybe more
- 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
- 1 tsp. Vanilla
- Dash of Salt
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