Let the YUM begin!

I read something on some blog (I cant remember which one) the other day about freezing sliced bananas and making ice cream out of them.  I had some bananas that were ripe and decided to try it.  I never ended up getting around to it and almost forgot completely.

Tonight the kids were pestering me about dessert (of which I did NOT want to have...I have been feeling very yucky fatty lately) and I remembered the bananas.

This I could do.

I blended the bananas up with some frozen raspberries and a little milk.

While pulling out the fruit, I noticed some leftover super delicious whole wheat buttermilk pancakes I made a few days ago and got an idea.  I heated them up (slowly so they were not chewy) and topped them with a scoop of the banana/raspberry ice cream.  Added a little drizzle of caramel syrup (because you can be TOO healthy, of course).

It was so tasty!  It sounds weird but it was SOOOOOO GOOD!  SOOOOO GOOD! 

And much more healthy and fibrous that vanilla ice cream over double chocolate brownies (Oh...brownies).

I so impressed my impromptu culinary self that I had to take a picture. 

I am quite a amateur in the kitchen (and with the camera for that matter) but I'm learning.

The other day I wanted to make sugar cookies for a St. Patties Day treasure hunt we were headed to.  I wasn't about to do shamrocks without a cookie cutter...but decided that a Pot of Gold might work.  It took me quite a while to think up a brilliant plan.  Here's what I came up with...

I had two sets of the same Halloween cutters.  A sharp set of kitchen sheers...and bit of painters tape (don't judge) and viola!....a pot of gold cutter. 

Apparently my engineering skills are much more fine tuned than my culinary skills.  They turned out looking ridiculous but were tasty anyway.  I don't have time or even care, at this point, to make things aesthetically pleasing.  Hopefully I am judged for my efforts not my results.

LIVES to draw!

The kids have been on a real drawing frenzy lately.  Especially little Red (Cael).  He draws picture after picture after picture.  ALL DAY LONG!

He's a total natural.  He grabs a piece of paper and pencil, stares off into space for a few seconds and then he's off.  He doesn't pause until his picture is complete.  He didn't inherit that from either of his parents.  We are both artfully challenged.



At any given time of the day he can be found here...

Drawing this:

and this

or these









There's plenty more where those came from too.



It amazes me.



Here's another.

 

He's such a character!

Battle over the baby....

Text:  WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
*Darryl, get Wren. 
*She needs you, Wanda. 
*No, she doesn't. 
*Sure she does.  She needs her mommy.  Especially during these early years when the bonds of trust form between mother and child. 
*Simply guilt will not get me out of this bed.
*How about guilt and a few pokes with my icy toes?

Rob found this comic strip in the paper this morning.  It hit really close to home.  He just HAD to share it with me.  We both had a good chuckle.

It's SOOOOOO true.

I ALWAYS WIN the battle.  He knows better than to put his cold feet on me.

Icy toes on Melanie = a woman's wrath....which we all know can last for HOURS.

I used to pretend I didn't hear them.  Now, I truly don't.   It's heaven.

Excitement in the air...

I just can't wait for spring. 



Not only do the plants and little animals come to life but so do I.



I'm so excited that it's getting closer.





The "dirt games" have already begun and I find myself cleaning it up ALL over the house but I'll take it over the stuffy cooped up feeling of winter. 



P.S.  I just caught Cael and Isaac dumping cup fulls of dirt on Isaac's coat after it had been discarded.  FUN!

Because him's just so darned cute (Uh hyuck!)!

Just too darn cute not to share.  Mostly para la familia que no vivan cerca (for family that does not live close). I guess that would be ALL of our family...he he!

He's just growing too fast.