Breakfast fun

The girls LOVE eating pancakes.  In the past I have always made them from scratch (see below I have added my pancake recipe), because they taste better then the boxed pancake mix....until I discovered the buttermilk pancake mix from Costco.  It so quick that I can whip it up in less then 5 minutes.  All you need to add is water.  so great for a busy morning before school.  There has been a few time when E wakes up and tells me "I want pancakes for breakfast"  I make it in a 2 cup measuring cup, so I don't have to wash extra dishes.  (1 cup pancake mix, and 2/3 cup water)

 The girls always ask me to make a mickey mouse head, or the letter of their name out of the pancake, but this time I decided to let them decorate their own pancakes.   I made different size pancakes and got some random stuff I had in my pantry.  They had so much fun.  What kid doesn't have fun when they get to play with their food. 

Here are their creations. 

  Pancake recipe 

 

2 cups milk

3/4 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder

 

1. Mix all wet ingredients in a bowl, then add the flour and baking powder and mix well

2. Heat Griddle and lightly oil.  Set to medium heat and start cooking.

 

  I usually make smaller sized pancakes for the girls, and they really like it when I make tiny baby loonie sized pancakes (perfect sized, so they don't have to cut them) 
 

 

Frozen party: Part 4- Party snacks

1. Cheesy snowman
- Cheese string
- black marker
- string to tie

2. Snow Capped Mountain
- Rice Krispie square
- blue chocolate wafers (you can also use white

3. Ice Blocks
- Blue raspberry Jello

4. Snowman parts

 - Blue Berries
- carrot sticks
- Pretzels

 5. Snowman popcorn cups
- popcorn (you can use regular popcorn, but I love the Chicago mix.  So I filled it with that instead)

6. Cotton Candy Trees

7. Snow covered oreos (as mentions in Part 1)

 8. Sugar cookies

9. Penguin shaped ham sandwiches (sorry forgot to take pictures of them)

Frozen party part 3: party favours

1. Snowman parts

all you need is
- Mini marshmallows
- Pretzel sticks
- chocolate chips
- Candy corn (or long orange candy)

Found this site that had everything.  You just need a color printer and come cardstock.   http://www.shesaved.com/2013/11/homemade-gift-idea-snowman-parts-snack-free-printable.html

2. Snow (white cotton candy)

3.  Paint yourself snowman mugs.

Make sure you buy the paint that can be cured.  Regular acrylic paint will rub right off a glazed ceramic mug.  I ended up buying Martha Stewards glass paints.  You let them air dry for 1 hour, then bake for 30 minutes. 

Happy 6th Birthday E!

So  this blog is going to be a little interruption in my frozen party.  But I wanted to show you a picture of the finished product.  I will continue to blog about each part of it later this week. 

 

This is a blog I have to post today.  Why?  My first born is turning 6.  6 years ago we were clueless and unaware of how our lives would change forever.   I still remember exactly what I was doing on Feb 2 2008 (I don't think I'd ever forget).  Her original due date was Feb 13 2008, so she was a nice little early surprise (for those of you who are or was pregnant you know the last few weeks aren't the most comfortable, so 10 days is a total gift).  It's kinda crazy how fast time flies (yes, to the new mothers out there, days can be long, but the weeks seem to fly by).   I can't believe this was 6 years ago.  After 15 hours of labour we received our precious little gift.  She was the sweetest thing ever.  Everyone always ask me what type of baby she was, and if she was hard.  I would say, because she was the first, it made it a little hard, but overall she was a pretty good baby.   I was one of the first of my friend and family to have kids, so I had no one to ask questions too.  Being a new mother, everything was new. 

 

Here are a few pictures of her on her birthday.

 

Few hours old in the hospital

 

First birthday

 

 

Second birthday

 

 

Third Birthday

 

 

 Fourth Birthday

 

 

Fifth Birthday



6 years ago today, my life changed for the better.  I can not imagine life without you in it

Happy 6th birthday! Mommy loves you! Thank you for being a great and fun-loving girl.  Thank you for being the great older sister to M and C.  I know they already look up to you so much. 

 

 

Frozen party part 2: decorations

When my daughter asked me for a Frozen birthday party I went straight to google.  Surprisingly there was a few ideas out there. I figured anything snowman or snowflake would work.

I went out shopping to find precut snowflakes, but I was a few weeks too late.  Most stores have already packed them away and put out all their valentines stuff.  Good thing I have a sister who loves crafts. She had a bucket of foam snowflakes she let me use.   I sewed them together and hung them up.

While at the mall, my other sister had a great idea of making tissue paper balls to hang up. We ended up buying 3 different colors.

To top it off, I found how to make snowflakes out of regular paper from http://allstudentscanshine.blogspot.nl/2012/12/snowflake-craft-tutorial.html

 

 

Frozen party: part 1 - Oreo pops

For one of the snack I thought anything on a stick is fun. So I decided to make chocolate dipped Oreos.

1.  Separate the Oreo

2. Melt some chocolate wafers

3.  Dip the sticks in the chocolate and place in Center.

4. Put the other side onto the Oreo.

5. Melt more chocolate wafers and dip the Oreo into the chocolate.

6. Place on a sheet of wax paper

7. Add sprinkles, sugar...or anything you want to decorate the Oreo with.

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy New Year.  Both my daughters class are celebrating Chinese new year today (Chinese new year is actually tomorrow, but M only has school on Tues.Thurs, and E's school has Olympic day tomorrow)

The girls wanted to do something special for their class.  So I got Josh to get some red envelops from work and pick up chocolate loonies to put inside.   When I dropped M off at school she was so excited to hand out these red envelops to her friend, and show off her Chinese dress. 

The girls are all dressed and ready for school.