Playing with C's new kitchen:

Me: "Could you make me some toast?"

C puts the bread in the toaster, it pops up, and before plating it he quickly turns to me with a questioning expressions

C: "You a girl mom???"

Me: "Yes I'm a girl....."

He then proceeds to pick up the purple princess plate, and put my toast on it. He didn't dare want to put the toast on a purple princess plate for a BOY! I guess he know nows that I am, indeed, a girl ; )

Potty Training - day 10.

warning: the follow post involves some annoying motherly bragging.

January 1st we went cold turkey on the diapers, and into full blown potty-training. It was SO nice to have J home for the next 4 days to help along the way. Obviously, C was more than ready for it. The first day we were out and about doing errands, and he didn't have any accidents. But today - day 10, marks the day that he went the entire day with NO accidents!! Not even a little dribble =)

I am sure there will still be accidents, but I am so proud of my little man. And his little ginch look so cute on his little bum =)

New Recipe

Because I know that the same old can get kind of boring, I tried out this new (to me) recipe the other night, and it was soooooo yum! So I thought I would share it. A little twist on the classic stir-fry. Definitely going to be added to the rotation.

Chicken Hoisin

• 2 chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces
• 1 tbsp cornstarch (I used flour)
• 1 tbsp cooking sherry or rice wine/vinegar (I used red wine vinegar)
• 1 tbsp. soya sauce
• 4 tbsp. oil
• 1 green pepper
• 8 water chestnuts sliced (the store was out, so I used celery)
• 1/4 lb. mushrooms sliced
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 tbsp. hoisin sauce
• Roasted cashews

Coast chicken in cornstarch, add wine and soya sauce. Pat 1 tbsp. of oil in wok and heat. Add green pepper, mushrooms, water chestnuts and salt, stir-fry for 2 1/2 minutes. Set aside. Add remaining oil and heat. Add chicken, stir-fry until cooked. Add hoisin sauce. Return veggies to wok and cook 1 minute. Add cashews and heat through. Serve with rice!

Enjoy!

My 9 month old beauty

This little girl melts my heart, with her chubby kissable cheeks, her ever ready smile, her soft and sweet disposition, and her wonderful sleeping habits =)

Recap

We have been......busy. And I am so looking forward to life getting back into routine. This morning C is off to preschool. Ahhhhh - how I missed preschool =)

Christmas was really wonderful this year - not too hectic, and lots of good family time. The 26th we headed up to Princeton for a few days, which was very nice and relaxing as well. (for us anyways, I can't speak for my mother and father in law =)

The day we got home, cabinets were getting assembled in our basement, and the next two days the install was in full swing! It was really exciting - but also hard to shuffle the kids out the door in the morning for the full day, especially just coming out of Christmas, and being away! C was crying to stay home, and it was hard to not get that much needed down time. But now I am so happy it is DONE! (almost). Just waiting for the counter top, which is being installed on Friday! Yippeee!!

Since then we have rearranged our living room, and I painted the kitchen. There are still things that need to be organized, and pictures to be hung, but for the most part, it is live able and finished.

Well I gotta run and get C from preschool - I hope everyone has been having a wonderful New Year!

I promise.....

to do some serious blogging once my kitchen is done, my wall touch ups are painted, my boy is potty trained. my baby gets her new teeth, and the pictures are hung back on the walls, oh....and the laundry is done....and the bathrooms cleaned.......

(and the potty training is in full swing, and going very well.)

For Opa