Baked With Love

February is finally coming to an end and I could not be happier. It feels like the Lil Man has had a different bug each week this month, which has made life at our place a little unpleasant. He's had two different cold bugs, and two different stomach bugs. Waking up to your little one throwing up during the night can be quite scary. One of my biggest fears is that he will choke while he is sleeping. So lets just say I do not get much sleep when the Lil Man is sick. Someone once told me that they find some days when they are at home looking after their child the day can be more stressful than when they worked outside of the home. All I have to say is I could not agree more. A stay at home mom is a  24/7 job. Each day is different and unpredictable. One day this month Mr. H decided to wake up before 3:00 a.m. and stay up of course. It was an extremely long day. This kind of craziness that has been taking place around our place has resulted in Mom not having much time to blog lately.

The day before Valentine's day the Lil Man was feeling ok to help me with our annual Valentine's day cookies. If you missed the cookies we made last year you can find them (here). He is a great baking assistant with the exception that he almost ate all my dark chocolate chips while I was measuring all the other ingredients. He did however patiently wait for the cookies to cool down.

 

The Lil Man decorated the paper bag for dad's Valentine's Day Sweets with "xo". Once hubby went to bed I put it into his lunch bag for a special Valentine's Day surprise.



Hope everyone had a much better February than we have had. Happy Friday!

Happy Love Day

I can't believe it's Valentine's Day already or should I say ... overblown, Hallmark-ed, commercialized day ... because that is how I feel about Valentine's Day. We don't get caught up with Valentine's day at our place. We show and tell our loved ones we love and appreciate them 365 days a year. But we do like making their day a little extra sweet with some homemade goodies and some smiles. Just wanted to send a little love and smiles to all our readers ...

Hope your Day and YEAR is filled with lots of Love, Hugs, Kisses & Sweet Wishes!

Valentine's Day Sweets

I know Valentine's day has come and gone, but I really wanted to document what we made this year - Pink Chocolate Chunk Cookies.

At Christmas each year, we always get chocolate letters from Byron's parents, it's a Dutch tradition. Usually we have a lot of sweets at this time of the year, so I freeze the letters for a later date. This year I used them to make these cookies and they turned out GREAT!

 

 

 

I used my go to chocolate chip recipe but substitute the chocolate chunks for the chips and I added a bit of food colouring to make them pink for Valentine's day and voila!

 

 

 

Almost looks like ice cream

 

 

 

 

Before getting packaged for dad

to take to work and share

I designed and printed onto paper bag.

 

 

 

 

Close up of bag, it's a bit hard to read due to the photo - but it says -- hope you have the sweetest day ... love Hugo!

 

I also made Reese's Peanut Butter Bars on Valentine's Day for dessert. I will post them soon!



7/52 - Valentine's Day Kisses

This past week I tried to snap a couple pictures of Hugo in his adorable little Valentine's Day shirt his Godmother gave him for Christmas. It is so cute ... the shirt reads "Handsome Devil - Valentine's Heart Breaker".

I made the following sign, put it in a frame and gave it to him and watched his reaction. I thought the sign was a very fitting touch, as Hugo has recently started to give us kisses {more so in the last week}. He puts his face against ours or goes for our lips and blows with his mouth {making a farting sound} and then gives us a big WET KISS. He also likes to blow kisses to people as they leave after coming over for a visit. He puts his hands to his mouth and blows on them {it melts my heart}.

This is how our mini shoot went ... everything was runny smoothly ...

I just want to pinch those chubby cheeks.

He was fascinated with the sign ...

Kisses ... get them while they last!

... but then ... he was on the move ...I think it's official to say Hugo is now walking!!! Another milestone to cross off the list!

 He started walking to the camera to check himself out.

 

It is amazing watching him get around. One second he is in the kitchen and then before I know it he has walked into the living room.

 

Roxy doesn't know what to do with this recent development though. She gets extremely excited and starts running around him trying to protect him I guess. We think she is worried he is going to fall and hurt himself so she is trying to keep him safe. It is really frustrating at times though. I am so afraid she is going to make him fall and hurt himself.

 

You can see Roxy's tail in the picture below. I think Roxy was in 90% of the pictures I took {arrrrrr}. She loves having her picture taken, which also didn't help.

... at least I was able to capture a few keepers of just Hugo!!