Anneliese loves babies. Any child that is under 3 feet is a baby to her.

Alisa Y. sent me an email with this link with a great idea!

I made Sis a photo album of babies. Not just any babies, but her brothers cousins and kitties!

Her favorite picture is our Christmas card of baby Zach. She LOVES Zachary and we even have a baby boy doll we call Zach and he's her favorite. If that doll is in sight she just lights up and offers wet slippery kisses.

It is so fun to see the fundamental differences between Anneliese and the boys. She sings to herself. She speaks softly and loves hair, anyone's hair. She'll even run her fingers through the back of her little peach fuzz. She loves to love on anything. She quickly lays her head on things to hug them all while letting out a sweet "ahhh."

Thank you Lord for allowing me to experience being a mother to our boys and our sweet baby girl.

-I sold my first purse! I am super excited about that. It was the second one I made and I'm a little insecure about whether or not the new owner will love it. I am definitely improving with each one I make. Now that things are settling down a bit here at home I have to get back to sewing! I have several bags I want to put together.

-Apparently all the running around and short nights has caught up to me. I have a terrible cold that came on like gang busters last night. My sinus pressure is so bad my teeth hurt. I'm super thankful for DayQuil. I was able to get out of bed, make lunch and run the dishwasher. Jared decided to stay home today and I'm so thankful. I just want to lay down.

-5 pounds to goal! I'm on track to get back to my Weight Watcher's goal by my birthday no problem! Happy Birthday to me. This Sunday I went up to the attic and pulled out MY clothes. When I decided to have another baby I was already up 15 lbs from my goal so for close to 2 years now I haven't been able to wear my own clothes. I've had hand me downs and maternity clothes but finally I'm fitting into my clothes that I love. My shape is definitely different after Sis. My belly is round and only surgery can fix that so I'm not real sure how things will fit but regardless I'm giddy to be back to "normal."

We have Kelby James today and tonight so I thought I would go ahead and do haircuts this afternoon. I cut all of this (that's a standard set of pliers):
Off of all of them:
Nice Eli. They are all freshly trimmed and bathed for church tomorrow. Handsome boys!
In order to take a regular picture I had to promise to take one with their toys.

I have decided to utilize the label function of blogger.

Since this is blog number 646 I have a lot of organizing to do :) I just wanted to let you know that I added a gluten free label. There are a lot of you reading that have at least one member of your family that eats gluten free due to allergies or celiac. My goal is to label gluten free recipes as such for ease of use.

That's all for now :)

WOWZERS! Last night we rolled right on past the 40,000 mark. Thank you for reading!

This made me giggle and peaked my interest so I just had to try it.

This is chocolate cake in a coffee cup...with a few changes to make it healthier in parenthesis.

Ingredients:
1 Coffee mug
4 TBS all purpose flour
4 TBS Sugar (Splenda)
2 TBS baking cocoa
1 egg (2 egg whites)
3 Tbs milk (skim)
3 TBS oil (applesauce)
splash of vanilla

First your mug. It doesn't have to be as adorable as mine but who doesn't like chocolate with a little pomp.

Just place the ingredients into the mug in order


Make sure you mix it well. I struggled a little getting the egg whites to mix. I imagine if you don't it would ruin it so error on the side of caution and stir this thing senseless.

This is the part that made me giggle. Next place it in the microwave and cook on high for 3 minutes. It will rise up over the rim of the mug, but no worries it's fine.

The kids helped me polish it off. I'm convinced it would be better with the original recipe but honestly if you want some warm chocolate baked goodness and your watching calories this will fill that need for sure.

My version was 6 points for the mug or 3 pts for half. Paired with a hot coffee, this is great. The kids loved watching it go together and I really think it's something they could easily do on their own (with supervision). Too Fun!

I'm not sure what it is with my younger two and hair ties, but when I saw Anneliese crawling around like this (yes those are socks on her hands, another odd thing that she and her brother do):

It quickly reminded me of an old image way back in the archives. This is Graham at about the same age:

Definitely related :)