Third Birthday

So for those of you have slept, A turned three Saturday a week back. It was fairly cool here, but we managed to make it to the park. A wanted to go to our new coffee shop at the "top of the stairs." She also wanted chicken nuggets from pizza for dinner. Sunday after her birthday she and Chris went to Arkansas for the week. I have a fun video of the birthday stuff so if you want it then let me know.

Here are a lot of good pictures.

Cookies

Since my boss wanted cookies for his birthday I device to see what I could do. He has recently decided to go gluten free, and has type 2 diabetes. Needless to say, I took the challenge. Here is my fun recipe. 

1/2 C butter
2/3 C white sugar
2/3 C agave nectar
2 eggs
4 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 C almond butter
3 C oats

Preheat oven 350°F. Cream butter and sugar. Add agave and continue to cream together. Add the eggs, vanilla, and baking soda. Continue creaming. The eggs are a binding agent here so the more they are crammed the better they will hold stuff together. Add the almond butter and oats. Put on cookie sheet and bake until browned.

They puffed up really big in the oven then fell. I'm still baking them and added a bit of gum to the second batch as the first spread out a lot. Apparently almond butter doesn't bind quite as well as peanut butter.

On other notes, A tried to paint her tongue blue with kids crest tonight. She won't be doing that again soon. She has mellowed out after moving up at her current school. G tries to creep these days and will pull up on anything. Everyone at the school says he's really advanced... This works me because clearly they haven't dealt with kids on the early end of the spectrum. There is a 14 month old who can barely stand though and that seems more normal to them...

May Flowers

I know I've been bad the past few weeks about blogging. G is trying really hard to crawl and chase after his big sister. Both kids seem to genuinely enjoy each other. A will look in on him at school just to make sure he is there. When she pokes her head around anything and is spotted by G he gives a face splitting grin.

So far work is work for both the adults these days. Chris did take this past Wednesday of for a church tech conference. It went well and he learned a few things.

Our weather has finally decided to become spring. The trees all have the new green/yellow look to them. We are trying herbs again this year. Maybe if we don't have the wettest summer on record again they may actually grow. With all the trees turning green all of our allergies have kicked into high gear. We give A a daily dose, G gets what he can through me and Chris takes a claritin or two.  G and I are both coughing because I can't take much with nursing him.

G is interested in food in as much as it's a different texture and fun to gnaw on carrots, but not really good at getting much in himself yet. He still has the tongue thrust reflex that shoots everything out of his mouth. We keep trying to give him avocado, banana, and other easily misshape food as we have them. He gets minimal amounts in him. It is enough to freak his teachers at school out a little, but they freak out about everything it seems.

A turns three in a week! Going back and reading some of those posts from three years ago is kind of interesting. Hard to believe what can happen in three years.

Here are a few pictures from the last few weeks.