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A truer sentiment has never been expressed.

hee hee!

Thanks to his auntie for the shirt!

Food Fun

Today we made...

Peanut Butter Play Dough

You need:
1 c. Peanut Butter
2 Tbs. Honey
2/3 - 1 c. Powdered Milk


The honey was a little difficult to squeeze.

Mix together the honey and peanut butter with a wooden spoon.

Add 2/3 c. of the milk and stir. Add more milk to reach desired consistency.

I taped wax paper to the table to make clean up easier.


Luckily, it tasted pretty good.






Peanut Butter: $2.50
Honey: $2.50
Powdered Milk: $10.00

Edible QUIET playtime: Priceless

Cinnamon Muffins

Here is the recipe for the Cinnamon Muffins I posted about a few days ago.

It is from this cookbook: "Betty Crocker: Kids Cook!"
We checked it out from the Provo City Library.

Ingredients:
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. milk
1/3 c. vegetable oil
1 egg
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 c. (1 stick) melted butter


MAKES 12 muffins

*Heat oven to 350'. Spray just the bottoms of each cup in the muffin pan with cooking spray.

*Put the first 1/2 c. sugar, the milk, and oil in a medium bowl. Stir with a wooden spoon until mixed. Add the egg and beat with a fork until mixed.

*Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg to sugar mixture. Stir just until flour is wet (the batter should still be a little lumpy; you don't want it to be smooth.) Spoon batter into muffin cups until 2/3 full.

*Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean.

*While muffins are baking, mix the second 1/2 c. sugar and the cinnamon in a small bowl. Set aside.

*Microwave butter on high for 30 to 45 seconds until melted. Let cool a few minutes.

*Once muffins are done put muffins on cooling rack to cool for 5 minutes.

*Roll muffins in melted butter and then in the cinnamon-sugar to coat.

Serve warm

A FEW NOTES:
The instructions are very kid-friendly (using a wooden spoon and fork to mix the ingredients), but you could obviously get out your hand mixer. I found that the fork and spoon didn't quite mix the egg in...almost, but not quite.
Also, I don't think I would roll them in butter again. The muffins soaked up a bit too much of the butter. The flavor of the muffin is good enough that I don't think they need cinnamon-sugar all over them. I think I would brush on the butter and then dip in the sugar. But, try it either way.


There you go Heidi. There are your cinnamon muffins! Let me know what you think.

Shoe sale...

Puddle Jumper Shoes

If you haven't ever seen this company's shoes, you ought to!!!

And, as a bonus, they have some REALLY CUTE ones ON SALE right now.

I didn't check any of the big sizes, but there were several to choose from for little guys. So, check it out.

These cuties here were 10 buckaroos.

They are all leather and have flexible soles. They are great shoes for new walkers and ....any child really.

Plus, you should see the new boots they have for girls. DELICIOUS!!!!! I haven't stopped drooling and dreaming yet. (I think that will be my new phrase...drooling and dreaming.) :)

Check them out here.

Pay It Forward!

Here's the idea. Be one of the first 3 people to leave a comment on my blog and you will be the lucky recipient of a handmade gift from me some time this year. When your receive your gift will be a surprise! Now here is the catch, you have to post the same thing on your blog and do the same for 3 lucky people. GOOD LUCK! This is going to be fun!

I saw this on my friend Heidi's blog and I was the first one to comment, so I'm looking forward to getting my goodie!!

So be sure to comment and I will send the first 3 a little handmade gift. Yeah!

Cooking...

I was inspired by my friend Robyn to have my kids start learning to cook. I couldn't find the cookbook she suggested here, but I did find a kid's cookbook at the library so we thought we'd give it a try.He chose Cinnamon Muffins. YUM!

We had a great time.

He was a little tentative with the hot oven.

It took quite awhile, but it was a great process.

They were delicious!
He did a great job and we had a lot of fun -- he already has a few more recipes picked out and is looking forward to the scout cooking requirement.

Thanks for the inspiration Robyn!

It's official...

We are now on the scouting trail!

He earned his Bobcat (rrraaaaarrrrr!!) and could not be more excited to continue doing all of the fun activities in his book!
Yeehaw for scouts!