My Yummy Fortune

{Fortune Cookies}



A while ago I purchased a box of fortune cookies. They were fun to eat and to open them up and see what the messages were. Lachlan really enjoyed them too. 
I found a recipes on one of my new favourite blogs : Our Best Bites
I set about making a batch with my own messages. Lachlan thought it was pretty special to have personalised messages in them.


Ingredients:


1/2 C flour- If you have bread flour, use it.
1/2 C sugar

1 tsp vanilla- or sometimes I use 1/2 almond 1/2 vanilla

2 egg whites

Method:

Preheat oven to 200°.

Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper*. Draw 3-4 (3-inch) circles on paper. Turn paper over. Spoon 1 teaspoon batter into center of each of the drawn circles; spread evenly to fill circle. Bake at 200° for 5-6 minutes or until the cookies are brown just around the edges and a little toward the centers. Remove from the oven. Let sit for a few seconds before removing from pan. Working quickly, loosen edges of cookies with a spatula, and turn over. Place fortune along the centre of 1 cookie. Fold cookie over so the edges meet ; press edges together. Gently pull the ends of the cookie down over the rim of a small bowl (or Jar); hold for a few seconds or until set. Repeat procedure with remaining cookies.
Makes about 24 cookie.

(Sorry the photos are a bit rough, i took them with my phone)

Write out little messages for your fortune cookies

Whisk all the ingredients and set in fridge for 1 hour

Working quickly (within seconds) flip the cookies over
and pop the message into the middle.
Fold the cookie over.

Bend them over the edge of a bowl or glass

Leave them to set for 15min

To finish of my cookies I dipped them into some melted chocolate and then into some sprinkles. These would make a beautiful little gift for someone with their own personal messages inside them. 

Icy Poles

{It's Too Cold..Brr}


My Mr Lachlan is in love with his Icy Poles. When he eats all of his dinner of a night time he gets his special icy pole. The other night he said to me " Mum wouldn't it be AWESOME if you could make your own icy poles"
It reminded me of when i was little and my mum used to make me icy poles, i too thought the concept was "AWESOME" when i was 5. I had a look through our Tupperware cupboard and found the very containers that i had when i was little.  So Lachlan and i set about making our own icy poles. I must say i like this option a whole lot better than the store ones. 
I use 100% fruit juice which is much healthier for my boy. 

Loopy Ties

{Fruit Loop Fun}


So it's school holiday time. I love having my boy home with me, but its surely a task to keep him occupied. 
For the school holidays we sit down together and plan out what we are going to do. We try and have an activity on everyday so we dont get the "I'm borrred Muuum" scenario.
This is just one of the little activities we did. Lachlan enjoyed doing this one, he particularly enjoyed eating the fruit loops that didn't have holes in the centre (especially because he has never had fruit loops before).
But most of all it kept him (us) occupied for a while.

Our special flower..

{Beautiful Flowers}

Xavie and i have gotten into a bit of a routine of late. We take Lachlan to school of a morning and on the way back to the car we stop and look at all the trees. There is this one tree though that Xavie just loves. His little eyes light up and he puts his hands out to touch it. Im not sure what sort of tree it is but it has some gorgeous orange flowers. So every morning we have to stop or he has a little grumble at me, I dont mind though sometimes its nice to just stop and take it all in. In this busy life we all live it really is nice to enjoy the smaller things...Even if it is just a flower :)

It's not what you say, it's what you hear?

{MAD GAB}

Ok so i think i'm a little bit too easily entertained. But seriously when i found this game i couldn't help but have a laugh. Im sure it's been around for a while but i have only just come across it.

What is it: The puzzles contain a set of unrelated words. When you read them aloud they sound like familiar phrases, names and places. On the website you can type in your answer and click submit.

Go to online game here: Mad Gab

Heres a few to keep you going:

1. Par Dummy

2. Leaf Meal Own

3. Poe Lease Deep Heart Mint

4. Muff Heater Gold

(answers below) 

And to keep me that little bit more entertained there is even a MadGab iphone app..

Can you come up with some of your own?

Answers:

1. Pardon Me

2. Leave me alone

3. Police department

4. My feet are cold

Right before our very eyes..

Im very behind on my blogs but i'm desperately trying to catch up so here we go..

Right before our very eyes our gorgeous Xavier turned 1. The time has flown so quickly, im really trying to make the most of every moment. I have absolutely loved being here with him all the time, i am very lucky to have been able to see all of his achievements. Xavier is a very easy baby and the journey has been smooth. He has achieved so many things this year, smiling, rolling, clapping, giggles, crawling, solids, chatting and climbing. But my favourites would have to be his developing personality, his beautiful smiles and the way he says "Dadda". He loves to watch Lachlan and follow him around and he loves standing at the door and talking to our puppies.

Now on to his PARTY...

SAFARI

I had been planning his party for quite some time. I knew i wanted bunting flags, candy jars, a wow factor cake (with the help of my bestie) and gloria jeans coffees (our family favourite). It took me many months to get it to all come together but in the end it did and i hope that one day we can look back on Xavier's first birthday party and go WOW.

I will leave you with some of the birthday boys pictures:

One on One

Since Lachlan has started school I have been feeling like we don't get enough time to just hang out together. I designated last weekend as our "one on one weekend" with both of the boys. 

On Saturday Graham spent some time with Lachlan and they went to see "Rango", Xavier and i...well we get to spend everyday together so i thought i would indulge in a little bit of shopping. 

On Sunday Graham took Xavie for a babychino and i took my big boy to the beach. It was so incredibly windy and normally i would have said "let's go somewhere out of this wind" but Lachlan had the biggest smile on his face, he was so happy standing in the wind looking out at the water, so i just went with it. We ran along the beach and tried not to get blown over, we did lots of exploring and we wrote in the sand together. 

Everywhere i go i take my trusty camera, i went to grab it before we left and Lachlan said "oh mum not the camera". I adore taking photos of the boys but i obviously needed a new angle with Lachlan now. Instead i grabbed the little point and shoot camera and told Lachlan that he was in charge of taking the photos today. He LOVED it and it was great for me to see the world through my 5 year olds eyes. 

We had a brilliant weekend and we are going to make our "one on one" times a monthly event. 

What's next? A "Can of Dates" of course :) 

I <3 this boy

Our Shadows <3