forget the cookies just give me that batter

Well after making the cupcakes Monday night that I did not really like, i have been craving sweets.  So tonight i decided to try an old recipe for "forget the cookies just give me that batter" Chocolate Chip Cookies that is in a cookbook my Grandma and Grandpa O'Meara gave my sister and me a LONG time ago. 

Oh man the batter was GREAT and so were the cookies.  I did not want to wait for the batter to be refrigerated for 1 hour so the cookies turned out a little flat but there were GREAT.  

Keith's 53 day turnaround starts tomorrow he has to be there at 3am. So he went to bed right after we put Grady to bed.   Hopefully these 2 months go by quickly!

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

While in line at LOWES this weekend I saw the cover of Martha Stewart Living, IRRESISTIBLE CUPCAKES!! I think most of yall know how much I lOVE cupcakes so I had to get the magazine.  

I let Keith pick the first one to try.  He picked Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with chocolate chip frosting.  Oh man are they RICH.  The recipe said to serve immediately but man they were WAY to rich that way.  So Keith took them to work the next and left 2 at home for Grady and Me.  I had it for dessert tonight and it was not as rich but definitely not my favorite cupcake.  

UPDATE: on big boy bed

The first night was wonderful. He only woke up that one time and he slept in till 8:00am.  I woke up to him knocking on his door.  

Sunday he took a good nap in his bed after my soccer game.  His allergies have been acting up since after the soccer game.   So after being alseep for about 2 hours he woke up all stuffed up CRYING AND CRYING. We put some baby vicks on him and gave him some children's claritin... but would cry every time we left the room. So we had to do the cry it out thing and go in every 5, 5, 10 mins.  But the funny thing is that he never got out of the bed, he just laid in there and cried. Once we got him back to sleep about 11:30pm he did not wake up till 8:30am this morning!! YEAH!!  This morning he was talking and fussing when i went into get him he was just sitting on his bed waiting for me.  

HAHA!! Well Guess who is knocking on his door RIGHT now, Grady!!  That was a nice 3 hour nap.  Ok what was I so worried about??

BIG BOY BED!!

Ok so here is the story!  I have been telling my friends and myself that I am not ready to put Grady in a big boy bed yet.  You read that right I am not ready, I was thinking that Grady would probably do good but I am just not ready to deal with it yet.  

Well about a week ago I found out that Grady's crib was recalled.  I mean 

completely recalled, they sent us an envelope and they want us to put all the bolts for the crib so NO one will be able to use the crib again and then they will send us a voucher for a new crib.  A friend told me that I could go buy a crib from Babies'r'us now and then when the voucher came in they will refund my credit card.  So today we went to just look and see what they had that matched Grady's dresser.  Well they had a perfect match and it was in stock, so we got it.  

After Grady's nap we took apart his old crib and started to put together the new 

crib and while looking at the directions we realized that the new crib can be used as a toddler bed.  I told Keith on that is nice to know but I am not ready for that yet. 

We were almost done, we just needed to put one more side on this happens to be the side to leave off to make it a toddler bed.  And Keith said lets put the mattress on and see if Grady likes the toddler bed.  Well yes Grady liked it, he could now get in and out of his bed (well with the help of the foam step and ramp) on his own.  Keith finally (it took a while) convinced me that we should leave to side off and let Grady sleep in the BIG BOY BED.

  

We put a child proof door knob lock on the inside of Grady's door so he can not get out of his room without us.  And we started our first night with Grady in a BIG BOY BED!!  He went right to sleep and then about an hour later he started to fuss so I went in to check on him and he was laying on the floor in the middle of the room with his blanket.  I am not sure how long he had been there but I put him back in his bed and we have not heard another peep.  

I am worried about what he is going to do in the middle of the night and then how he is going to do at nap time.

I will update yall on how it went tomorrow!! Wish us luck!!

Big Helper!!

Grady has really been a big help lately. He has started to help us set the table for dinner. He will get his big boy cup and put it on the table and then we will give him the silverware and he will put one in every body's place.

He is also really enjoying cooking and cleaning up in his kitchen while we are cooking and cleaning.

Nice Week!!

Grady and I had a really fun and busy week!!

Tuesday - We went to Olive Garden with moms group for a birthday lunch.

Wednesday - Storytime at the library with moms group then they came of to our house for lunch and playtime.

Thursday - We had a WONDERFUL time at the Zoo with moms group.  The weather and they children were perfect. 

Friday - Grady and I ran some errands then went to the park with moms group.  Then Friday night we had our 1st supper club with the moms group.  It was a lot of fun.  All the late nighters (8:30pm) put our kids in there PJ's before we left and got a group PJ picture.  

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I've seen this on a few blogs recently and i thought it was cute. Here is my list!

Things you've already done: bold
Things you want to do: italicize
Things you haven't done and don't want to - leave in plain font

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars (does it count if only slept outside 1/2 the night)

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland/world

8. Climbed a mountain

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables (herbs)

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train (not in a sleeping car)

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted (by my Grandma O'Meara)

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class (for a couple of days :)

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (museum in Germany)

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox (when i got the chickenpox vaccine at 16 years old)

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee

Photo Shoot

Grady has become VERY interested in my camera.  Every time I take it out he says "CHEESE."  Well Monday i had the camera on the kitchen table and Grady really wanted to take pictures. So I held the camera and showed him where to push.  These are some pictures of Grady's Photo Shoot of ME!! 

 

Then I turned the camera on him and but he would only let me take a couple of him!

 

Tagged: TV Junkie

So I was reading my friend Kim's latest blog entry... TV Junkie and was thinking man she DVR's a lot of shows.  Then I started to make a list of ALL the shows I DVR, well I do DVR more but they are not must watch shows.  And it is scary to see all the shows a watch in a week! 

Here is my list:

1. Project Runway
   
2. House
   
3. Eli Stone
   
4. NUMBERS
   
5. Heroes
   
6. How I Meet Your Mother
   
7. The Office
   
8. Chuck
   
9. Lipstick Jungle
   
10. The Starter Wife
    
11. The View (comes on every day)
    
12. 17 Kids and Counting
    
13. Jon & Kate Plus 8
    

OK TAG your it!! How many and which shows do you watch every week?? :)  

Happy New Year!!

We had a wonderful News Years Eve at home. 

Drank some wine.
Gave Grady a New Years bubble bath!!

Watch the LSU TIGERS win the Chick-Fil-A bowl.

After the game Keith and I all bundled up and went in the back yard to watch our friends Kevin and Steve shoot fireworks from there back yard across the lake. We had a perfect view from our back yard!

Happy EARLY News Years, I was in bed at 11pm. Keith stayed up to play his new PS3 game!

What Happened???

 On Tuesday (Dec 30) Grady and I were running some errands we were on our way home and I look in the back seat and Grady has taken his arm out of his shirt! 

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas with our families. 

 

Steff and Bogdan came in from Maryland.  Check out Stephanie's Blog

       

This was Grady's 2nd Christmas.  He got a lot of wonderful gifts.  A Tonka dump truck, a play retro Kitchen, a tricycle, play food and dishes, games, books, and much more.  He also LOVED the apple from the bottom of his stocking, he took a bite right when we got it out and eat it for breakfast Christmas morning (this was his 1st time eat a apple whole).  

O'Meara Christmas was fun always. It was really funny watching the Aunts and Uncles play Rock Band.

Saturday was our only lazy day while we were at my parents house.  

Sunday we dropped off Steff and Bogdan at the airport then went to Morgan City to see the Marino's for Christmas.