As mentioned we had our far-away cousins visiting last week (hence my absence here on the blog. Both the Little Dude and the Baby LOVED having other littles who were more or less their age around the house. It may have been slightly busier than normal in terms of food prep and whatnot, but I'll tell you what, the presence of new and exciting people totally balanced that out. The kids were SO EASY with their little relative-friends around. Always someone to plan a new game with, re-discover old toys, and share favourite stories. There was pretty much no whining or requests to "play with meeeee..." at awkward times (re: meal prep hour) It was a real treat.
Lookit those two little co-conspiritors.
Its funny how I did not notice how red the Baby's hair is until I saw him next to his blonde little cousin. And I'm still sad about the fact that I was not fast enough with the camera to catch the awesome side-by-side, spontaneous dance party that the two of them had at one point. Too cute for words. I don't have any suitable for blogging pictures of the older two, as they were pretty much constantly in motion, and the resulting images are very blurry or have one of the two of them with their eyes closed. But still, we have our memories!
Oh, and just a few other random funny kid things. The Little Dude has added the phrase "and whatnot" to his vocabulary. As in "Lets play with playdough, and we can make cut out shapes and whatnot and whatnot." But he always does it like that, with two whatnots. Very funny.
Also, I was nursing the Baby the other day and my stomach growled and he did a nearly pitch perfect impression of it, with his voice. Seriously, he mimicked my borborygmi. Its like living with a myna bird.
Oh, and I made these gluten free, dairy free drop biscuits tonight and they were SO FREAKIN' GOOD! Hubs raved about them (and he really is not a man who is prone to raving), so I take that very seriously. The recipe calls for butter, but I replaced that with Crisco and it was awesome. The tip about freezing the butter/shortening so you can grate it is a good one, but I did not have quite enough lead time to do that, so just the regular way of cutting in the butter with a pastry cutter worked just fine. They all got eaten up, and I have many ideas for other uses of this recipe. Add a little sugar and I'll bet it'd be an awesome cobbler topping. Also, I want to use it for the top layer on chicken pot pie/chicken stew. I love finding a good recipe. So many possibilities.
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