No-bake Cookies

I love to peanut butter, marshmallows and anything sweet that I can make and clean up in about 10 minutes and this fits all of those.

These Chocolate peanut butter no bake cookies may not be the cutest cookie and they you need to freeze them if you want to hold the whole cookie at once but they are sure yummy.

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-bake Cookies
2 Cups Sugar
4 Tablespoons Cocoa
½ cup butter
½ cup milk
1 cup peanut butter
3 cups oatmeal
3 cups marshmallows
Parchment paper

In a heavy saucepan bring to boil, the sugar, cocoa, butter and milk. Let boil for 1 minute. Then add peanut butter, mix well. Then stir in oatmeal and marshmallows (I like to save one cup of marshmallows until the very end so that they are not all melted by the time you have finished mixing). Drop mixture onto a greased sheet of parchment paper – until cooled and hardened (these cookies are usually so soft that you need to freeze them unless you want to eat them with a spoon).

Looks and Brains

Since Elly has started solids almost 3 months ago she has been very picky on what she will eat. I hoped that this would change once she started finger foods but unfortunately she has proved to be even pickier then she was before. She now will not eat anything with a spoon unless she gets to hold it and when that happens all the food ends up on me, the floor or her hair and none in her mouth.

So yesterday I decided I was going to be very sneaky and spread some of her sweet potato on the one thing she will eat – Gerber graduate puffs – well my daughter it too smart for that. She would pick up the puff; look at it and with the other hand take off the sweet potato. And the best part is when I took out the camera because I thought she was being too cute she started to pose and smile.

That’s my girl.

New High Chair

Last week I finally bought Elly a high chair (she normally sits in her bumbo). It was a lot of fun setting it up and she was very excited to try it out, she even tried to read me the instructions – no doubt to tell me the best way to build it.

Hair just like her Grandpa.

When Elly came home from the hospital she had black curly hair – it’s not as black as it used to be but when I leave it after a bath like I did last night you can see it just as curly. Just like her Grandpa’s.

I know she is not a doll.

I know that she is not a doll but sometimes she looks like one and I just love to play with her hair and dress her up in cute clothes.

And most of the time she is so patient and lets me. What a good baby. (the curlers didn't work but she still sure looked cute).

This is amazing

Elly has been asleep since 8:30 last night.  Ok she woke up once at 11:30pm but I put her soother back in and she fell right back to sleep.  Now I have been up since 5am waiting for her but she is still sleeping….not that I am complaining. 

Two weeks ago she was waking up every 2 hours, and of course because I was so exhausted I would just feed her and then put her back into bed.  So last week I started to give her solids right before I put her to bed and then only allow my self to feed her once between 8pm and 6am so any time that she woke up I would give her her soother and usually cradle her back to sleep…. It was a long week but hopefully last night was a sign that it is going to pay off and we will all start to get some good sleep on a regular basis.

This is embarrassing….

Last week I turned 27! The day before my birthday I had to go and get my drivers license renewed and get a new picture taken. After I came home I started to feel sad about getting old and not looking as young as I used to – so I decided to pull out some pictures of myself from 2003. Let’s just say I feel much better about my self now and a little worse about myself then.