Two for Twos-day

Playing along with Debi for the Two for Tuesday picture.


Multiples and More blog posted a recipe a couple of weeks ago this recipe for Blueberry Coffee Cake.

We were bored at night a few weeks ago and I had all the ingredients, so we made the cake. The boys had a great time rolling the dough in the butter and the cinnamon/sugar.

The cake tasted very good afterwards also. I served it to them with some vanilla ice cream for desert. They liked it but really liked the vanilla ice cream better! I had some the next morning and it was very tasty and moist!

Here they are with the it before it went into the oven for cooking.

Two for Tuesday

I love to make bake and more important Chase and Cody love to be in the kitchen with me! I actually wish that I had more time to bake with them. I find so many good receipes from blogs and websites that I visit that I just want to make them all.

Last week the boys and I made Chocolate Zucchini Bread. Amy makes some wonderful looking cakes and has some great receipes!


They really liked tasting the batter everytime we cook. The Chocolate Zucchini Bread turned out wonderful!

Post your famous two for Tuesday picture and link it up so we can see!

Two for Two-sday & Update

Playing along with Debi today on Two for Two-sday! Click on the button below to play along!



This picture of Chase and Cody is from a couple of weeks ago. I found this recipe for O'Henry Bars from The Amazing Trips. (I don't have the exact link of the recipe I will re-link it tonight when I get home.)
The O'Henry Bars turned out to be delicious and of course Chase and Cody helped with the majority of it. They put the ingredients in the mixer and then they patted it into the baking sheet. We ate the dessert that night for desert, gave some to grandma and I brought them to work. Everyone liked them.

I also wanted for my own record update on two things: Sleeping and Potty Training.

Sleeping: Both boys for the last couple of months are in their room, sleeping in their race car beds. We go to bed at 8:30pm I read three books to them and they are asleep by 9:00pm. They both sleep all night and wake up in good moods (most of the time). It is nice to finally have a routine and children that sleep through the night. When Chase wakes up in the morning he calls out "Mom" and I come and get him carry him to the couch and we cuddle for about 15 minutes. Cody sleeps in a little more than Chase and when Cody wakes up he will walk out and find me (usually in the kitchen starting breakfast). He drinks some milk on the couch with me next to him.

Potty Training: Chase is completely potty trained. He will go in public bathrooms both pee and poop. There is no issues, he has been completely good for about two months now. Every once in a while he will still ask for jelly beans for a job well done for going poop.

Cody is completely pee trained. He did it when he was ready no matter how hard I pushed him, he pushed back the other way even harder. I backed away and he went. He finally got the hang of it and has not a accident since. Now pooping is a whole different story. He is very pee and poop shy. He will only pee when he is comfortable, it's getting better for public restrooms. He only poops at home and in his underwear. The last two nights I have been putting him back in pull-ups because I am tired of washing poop out of underwear. He will not use the toilet. Even if I ask him did you go poop? (When I know he has) He will answer No. Like he is ashamed of it or something. After he poops in his underwear I make him sit on the toilet. It's kind of frustrating and I am just not going to talk about it. Maybe I am putting to much pressure on him.

Sorry that got a little long.

Baking

I decided that today was a baking day. I made a bunch of holiday treats and knew that the boys could help me. I made pumpkin bread, Black bottom cupcakes, German Chocolate Coconut bars, and chocolate chip cookies. Everything turned out delicious, if I do say so myself. The boys thought that the chocolate chips were candy. And they ate a lot of them. They helped me stir and pour things into the bowls. Very fun!

They also keep me entertained by singing...a lot. If one is not singing, the other one is. Right now they are singing "Jingle Bells". Other songs get sung as well like ABC's and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". Which is a whole other post of the first performance. But anyways so while we were baking we were also singing. Very fun!

So since baking was so much fun and I had finished my official baking I brought out a gingerbread house kit. Okay I have never made a gingerbread house in my life so this was a new experience for me also. But I thought how hard could it be. Very hard. I guess I never could be a cake decorator.

It was much harder then I thought because I couldn't even get the frosting (if you call it that-sugar stuff that) the right consistency too stay on the house. After playing with it a while and adding water and powder sugar it stayed one long enough for Chase to get some candy on it, when he wasn't eating the candy himself. Cody liked it but liked playing cars much better so he went to play by himself as Chase finished. Chase had good time - but what a mess.