Friday, August 19, 2011

Flutter By Friday 8-19: Come Link-up!!

Welcome to this week’s Flutter By Friday blog hop!

The reason:
For readers to find other neat blogs to read and follow.
For bloggers to find readers/followers.

Here’s what to do:
  • Use the linky at the bottom of this post to post up to 2 posts per link-up.
  • Come back and see what other bloggers have been linked to.
  • Comment on a post you like.
  • Follow a new blog.
  • Come back next week to do it again!

I’ll randomly pick a link from this week’s blog hop to feature in next week’s blog hop!

Please take a moment and check out this week’s featured blog:
Mama Notes

I'd also appreciate if you placed this blog hop button on your blog.
Mama Dani's Musings





This linky will end Sunday evening.



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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Project 52: Week 33

Nap time!!

Sean has pretty much given up naps so this is a true rarity at our house. Both kids napping at the same time!!
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Pregnancy Update: 20 weeks

Wow! I'm 20 weeks already, about half way till we get to meet our little Jellybean!!
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The ruler shows 10 1/2in...about how long Jellybean is this week.

This pregnancy is getting more real. Up until a couple of weeks ago, there were days where I could almost forget that I'm pregnant. Not so much any more. It really hit me a couple weeks ago when a stranger asked me when am I due. Then I surprised myself. With Sean and Maddy, I was quick to say my due date. This time, I just said January. I wholeheartedly believe that there's a due month (so going 2 weeks my due date would be normal) rather than a due date but I still focused on my due date when I was pregnant with Sean and Maddy. Not so much this time I guess..

I'm also feeling Jellybean even more now. He/she tends to be more active first thing in the morning, at the kids’ nap time and at night. I'm feeling him/her more than I felt Sean or Maddy and that's exciting. I can’t wait until Richard and the kids can feel him!

I’ll have an ultrasound scheduled soon but the blue and pink are going to have to wait. We're team green this time. That's right, we're not finding out the gender until January. I'm normally an impatient person when it comes to surprises but I'm pretty excited about waiting this time. However, I am getting boy vibes..we shall see! We’ve started our name search and have a small list going..key word "small". I'm not sharing that just yet either. We may share the final boy and girl name once we have it narrowed down but not until then. BTW, Why are girl names so much easier!? So far we have a few girl names but only one boy name..


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Monday, August 15, 2011

Kids Meal: ABCs

We're easing into the school year by adding one subject at a time. This week we're adding literacy. What's better than an ABC lunch!?

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A (apple) to Z (zucchini)
Alphabet Cheez-its, Alphabet spaghetti, More Alphabet Cheez-its

More Muffin Tin Monday ideas:
Muffin Tin Monday at Her Cup Overfloweth


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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Weekend Recipe: Blueberry Crumb Bars

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What an easy dessert!
The recipe can be found here.

The ingredients:
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 3 cups Flour
  • 1 cup Shortening
  • 1 Egg
  • 1/4 tsp Salt (optional)
  • 1 pinch Ground cinnamon (optional)
  • 4 cups Fresh blueberries
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 3 teaspoons Cornstarch

The recipe says that the dough would be crumbly. It sure was!!

I also learned that you should be very gentle when pressing it into the pan. The places that were pressed harder were very hard after being baked.

Other than the hard bottom layer (which was my mistake, not the recipe's), it was very good!! I plan on trying this again with other fruits.

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Bath Paint

We had a pretty lax school week this week so I thought I'd share a project we did. We made homemade bath paint.

It's very simple. Just mix together the following ingredients:
  • 1/3 cup liquid soap (I used tear free shampoo in case of accidents)
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • food coloring

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The kids loved it!!


They started out finger painting but the paint wasn't thick enough.
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Sponge brushes worked much better!
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