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Ashley has become quite the wrestler at our house.  She randomly attacks Emily or Bryan. Her favorite insult is to call Bryan a booger.  

Emily with all their friends- Goliath the lion, Wala the quola, Tusky the small elephant, Purry Ashley's kitten, Emily the big elephant and the white unicorn.  

Emily wanted to make a recipe so she looked in a cookbook and found bread made into fun animals.  So Emily, Ashley and Bryan made Sheep Bread (shown), Bear Bread and Turtle Bread.  They were delicious!  

  As Bryan comes home from work, the girls run up to him and try to climb on his feets for a ride.  

It's a boy & Bryan's birthday

On Tuesday was Bryan's 31st birthday and we went in for our ultrasound appointment. My main objective was to find out the health of the baby but also the gender. We got everything checked and the baby looks normal and we are having a boy! Happy happy news! They moved my due date at June 13th, previously it was June 3rd. Emily is very excited for a little brother. She has come up with the name Business Hanks for him. Who knows where she got it, but I am not surprised as she called Ashley "Doojees" for many months. Ashley is still not sure what to make of it yet, but is excited for a new pwince (prince).

Bryan stayed home from work to celebrate his special day. He got cinnamon rolls from the girls and then they went off to preschoool. I made him a omelets and hashbrown feast and then he played Guitar Hero and watched some episodes of Hero. We went and bought some sheet music and then headed to the dr office. We had a family party that night with indian food Chicken Tikka Masala followed by Cherry Pizza Pie and ice cream. Happy Birthday B!
On other news, Bryan's brothers Spencer and Cameron moved out of our basement and will be staying in Houston with their parents for a while.
And Emily learned how to tie her shoes on the 6th. She is thrilled!

Emily's Recipe

Tonight as we watched more snow falling, Emily and Ashley were eating vanilla yogurt.
Emily finished her snack and told me that she thought she could make more yogurt by taking snow and adding salt, pepper, milk, etc. I told her I'd like to see that, and so she showed me. Here was her recipe for making Special Cranberry Yogurt: 1 banana, 3 drops (TBSP) of shredded cheese, 1 cut of butter, 1 egg, 1/2 bowl of hard packed snow, 2 1/3 c milk, 4 hand-fulls of craisens, 3 scoops (TBSP) vanilla yogurt. Put all ingredients in a saucepan. Stir with a wire whisk and then a rubber scraper while on low heat. Add 1 slice of cutie, 1/2 cup oatmeal and 2 TSBP hot chocolate mix. Mix together until thickened.
Upon sampling, Emily decided that she didn't end up making yogurt but Oatmeal Soup. I tried it and found out it was delicious. I had two bowlfuls of chocolate banana craisen oatmeal. The girls loved it too. Emily was so proud. She asked Ashley if she liked it to which she replied, "It tastes slimy." Emily agreed and they both laughed. Who knew a 4 year old could put a bunch of stuff in a pan and it could turn out? And I've been stressing about cooking food. I am obviously the wrong choice for the job.

Husband Away, Sad Me

Anyone wondering what would be a good idea of a bedtime snack for a pregnant, hungry for chocolate wife who is missing her husband? My great idea- a huge cup of hot chocolate. Now I will be missing my husband even more as I get to take additional trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night (already it's twice) and get to climb back into a cold bed by myself. He's been gone 12 hours and already I am going through withdraws. I think I am addicted to my husband. Thankfully 3 1/2 scoops of hot chocolate mix has 4% iron and 6% calcium so maybe this could be my new thing.

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