Muffin Tin Monday Swap!

I had a great opportunity to join in the Muffin Tin Monday Swap that Michelle over at Her Cup Overfloweth hosted. For awhile now I have looked forward to heading over to her blog every Monday to check out what everyone did for Muffin Tin Monday. I never joined in because, well, Baby Girl wasn't eating a lot of table food. She has started to try a lot of new table foods now, though, so I thought I might as well jump right on in!

A bunch of us signed up and we were given partners to send an MTM package to. I had wonderful luck and got Amanda from Funny Days with Mommy and Maddie as my partner. I have followed her blog for awhile now and always enjoy it! Anyway, she sent me a wonderful starter kit:

Silicone muffin tin, silicone heart-shaped and circle muffin cups, sprinkles, and super cute food picks!

Here is a close-up of the food picks. The pinwheels are just extra cute!

I may have to do "modified" MTM's for awhile, since Baby Girl doesn't exactly have a huge variety in her diet yet (being 11 months old), but I'm really looking forward to starting this tradition with her. I've said that I'm going to start the Monday after she turns 1, but we'll see if I can wait that long!! :) Thank you so much for the package, Amanda!! And thank you, Michelle, for hosting the swap!

Saturday Picture Surprise

It's Saturday again! It's been a crazy busy weekend for us so far, but lots of fun. My husband is off this weekend so we've been running errands and just having fun as a family. :) This week's random picture is from November 2006, picture #59. This is when I married the love of my life and picture #59 happened to be of our wedding cake. We had a small, intimate wedding so we didn't need a huge cake or anything. It was very pretty and very tasty.



See what others were taking pictures of in November 2006 over at From Pigpen To Paradise!

Book Fan Friday

It was a quick trip to the library today. I decided to grab another classic I've always heard about and found Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman.


Baby Girl seemed to like it and, for some reason, especially liked the cow. I think one reason I gravitated towards this book is because Baby Girl can say dada, cat, and up among many other sounds but still has only said mama one time. I thought maybe it might help for her to hear it repeated over and over in the book. Everytime it says "mother," I just changed it to "mama." I'm not really expecting that to work or anything, but it couldn't hurt, right? :) It is a pretty adorable little book.

Wordless Wednesday

It's hard to take pictures of your baby sitting still once they learn to crawl!

For more Wordless Wednesday, please visit 5 Minutes for Mom.

Saturday Picture Surprise

This morning, Angie over at From Pigpen to Paradise started Saturday Picture Surprise and I thought it is such a fun idea! Each week she will pick a random picture for you to find in your picture files and you post it on your blog. Here is her explanation of what Saturday Picture Surprise is.

For the first week, the random picture is from May 2009, picture #7.


My beautiful Baby Girl and me. Not the best picture of me, but that's okay. :) This is one of the first pictures my husband took with our brand-new digital camera that we bought just minutes before. It was on Mother's Day. Go over to From Pigpen To Paradise to see what others were taking pictures of in May 2009!

Book Fan Friday

Good afternoon everyone! Baby Girl decided to take a late nap (well, later than usual) this morning so we didn't go to storytime, but that's okay because I took a nap along with her and have felt FABULOUS today. I haven't been getting enough sleep lately so it was wonderful. Anyway, we went a little later and I knew exactly what book I wanted to get to read to her. While looking for other books I have always seen the book Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel.


You see that cat on the cover? Well, turn that blue spot on her chest to white and you have our kitty, Ali. Plus, just with the title, it was a perfect pick. On any given day in our household, you may hear the following conversation:

Me: Honey, is there any reason the salsa (mustard, spices, whatever) is still out?
Darling Husband: Oh, that silly baby must have left it out.
Me: The baby is upstairs sleeping.
DH: Um.... bad kitty?

He always makes me laugh. That's one reason I adore him. So this book is way too cute. It is about a kitty who doesn't get her food on time and decides to be a bad kitty. It goes through the alphabet four times in the book and has great illustrations. Baby Girl loved pointing at the pictures and telling her own little story (which, at 10 months, is "baba dada ba pa da da" but is the best story I have ever heard :) ) and I found it really funny. I really do recommend this book.

I also won my first giveaway the other day! How exciting! Thanks to From Pigpen to Paradise and PurpleTrail, I won a year-long basic subscription to PurpleTrail! PurpleTrail is a site that helps you organize your parties, has invitations, printable party games, and more. I can't wait to check it out further!

Pie Pop Experiment

So have I mentioned how much I love Bakerella's blog? So many cute, yummy-looking things that I want to try! Well, this weekend my wonderful husband and I made two chicken pot pies. One for a family who just had a beautiful baby boy and one for us since we were having a friend over. The pot pie recipe we have is AWESOME. I can't even remember now where we got it, but it turns out perfectly every time.

Anyway, there was a little bit of dough left over from the crusts and I really didn't want to just throw it away. I knew there just had to be something I could make with it. Then I checked Bakerella this morning to see if anything new was up and what do I see but... pie pops! I still have lots of lollipop sticks left since I just made cake pops and have extra to make kitty cake pops for Baby Girl's party, so this seemed absolutely perfect.

I only had a little dough and didn't want to buy a whole jar of pie filling or make a full recipe, so I just whipped up a small batch of apple pie filling.


They were too cute and hubby even said that he would love to have them again next time we have leftover dough lying around. :) Looks like we have a go-to dessert for chicken pot pie nights!