Banana oatmeal chocolate pip cookies

The title isn’t a mistake. While we were making these Lily christened chocolate chips chocolate pips. I liked it so it stuck.

Making banana oatmeal cookies

Lil is smashing 2 very very ripe bananas. Hmmm, it seems that the very ripe bananas is the only part of the recipe I can really remember and can’t find the right one on Pinterest or Google. I’ll keep looking and also look for the copy I printed. Once I find it I’ll post it.

Making banana oatmeal cookies

I really hope I can find it, because Lily and everyone else in the house loved these cookies. Well everyone except me, I loth bananas. I don’t like the smell, taste or texture of bananas so I didn’t try them.

Making banana oatmeal cookies

Making banana oatmeal cookies

Making banana oatmeal cookies

Making banana oatmeal cookies

Making banana oatmeal cookies

Banana oatmeal cookies

We added extra pips to the top of the cookies before baking.  Lily added extra pips to her mouth and was a happy kid.

Banana oatmeal cookies

Banana oatmeal cookies are yummy

Banana oatmeal cookies are yummy

Banana oatmeal cookies are yummy

Banana oatmeal cookies are yummy

Banana oatmeal cookies are yummy

Banana oatmeal cookies are yummy

Backward airplane

I don’t know what else to call it, but backward airplane seems to sort of work. Anyway Lil loves to stand in my hands and then once she grabs my feet I lift her up and once up in the air she lets go of my feet and sort of growls. This is her new favorite thing and she wants to do it all. the. time.

Last week she wanted me to take a picture of her doing this little trick. It was very hard to get it, but I decided to try and get a video while I was at it. My phone was laying on my belly since I didn’t have any extra hands to hold the phone. I took like 6 videos and only two were sort of ok and I decided to only share this one.

Gak attack

I hope when you read the title you think of Saved By The Bell and Zach.

Gak is FUN!

Over the last few months while I stalked Pinterest I kept running across recipes for GAK, but it required Borax and I didn’t have any.  Well I finally found Borax at Whole Foods so Lily and I made some Gak.

Gak is FUN!

Out of all of my food coloring colors Lily decided on orange. Not my first choice, but she likes it.

Gak is FUN!

She loves the texture and feel of the Gak. She played with it for a very long while.

Gak is FUN!

We still have it in a zip lock bag and Lil gets it out and plays occasionally.

I think Gak gets a 4 out of 5 crayon rating. I totally recommend it.

Easter 2013

It’s so far past Easter at this point, I could kick myself because I don’t remember half the things I was going to say.  I’m actually working on a bunch of posts like this and it’s driving me crazy. Oh well, maybe some day I’ll learn how to post in a timely-er manner.

Lily mentioned making a bunny hat once so I figured this was the perfect time to do that. I drew the lines for the ears and she cut them out perfectly, I was so damn impressed.  After she cut them out she colored the inside of the ears and then glued cotton balls to it. After the glue dried I realized that the ears were way to heavy to stand up on on Lil’s head so I cut strips of poster board and glued them to the back. Then we glued the ears to the headband.

Easter bunny ear hat

Lil loved these ears. She wore them around for days.

Easter bunny ear hat

For the last few years I’ve been having Lil paint wooden eggs so that I can keep them. I think the pack I bought has a dozen eggs in it, that’s way more than I meant to do each year. Oh well.

painting wooden easter eggs

painting wooden easter eggs

painting wooden easter eggs

I know that traditionally Easter eggs are dyed with that crazy little dye pellets, but I hated it the time that we tried it. Lil thought it was incredibly boring and not fun. So we always paint our eggs.

Easter 2013

This year I decided to try and figure out how to keep the eggs from rolling around and messing up Lil’s paint. I cut up a couple of empty paper towel tubes. This is the best thing ever, you’re welcome.

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

Waldo mentioned that it would be good if we had something that would spin the eggs so Lil didn’t have to keep touching them. I run up the stairs and grabbed a lazy susan from my craft stash and spin art eggs were born.

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

Waldo, Lily and I painted 2 dozen eggs, a few of them didn’t survive the whole process. I also bought about 3 dozen plastic eggs. I didn’t hide all the plastic eggs, but I’m pretty sure I hid at least 4 dozen eggs.

This wasn’t the dress I bought for Lil to wear for Easter, but it was what she wanted to wear so whatever.

Easter 2013

Lily with her new Easter Hello Kitty.

Easter 2013

This was Waldo’s egg. I was very impressed.

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

I think I emptied her bucked at least twice because all the eggs wouldn’t fit.

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

A few months before Easter Lil and I were talking about hunting eggs and she mentioned how some of the eggs would have TREASURE in them. After talking to her for a while and trying to figure out what on earth she was talking about and where she learned about treasure eggs I got a little info, I never found out where she heard about them. But treasure eggs apparently have beads and things like that in them. I never had any intention of giving Lil easter gifts, but she was so set on this treasure egg thing that I couldn’t let her down.

Easter 2013

We went to Target and I grabbed a huge amount of little inexpensive treasures. Bead necklaces, tiny animals (squinkies or something like that), a ring that lights up and blinks and a few other little things.

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

I hope you enjoyed my very late Easter post. I’m sure I missed some really important things I wanted to say, but this at least got my pictures and a few thoughts in order.

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