Okay, they are not all that shocking... Well, to me they aren't but to the unsuspecting public they could be.
Collin and I had a rather short but in depth talk about both our mental states and where we are in the grieving process and both of us recognize that we are the type of grievers that feel we need to fill the emptiness in our hearts with something. I mentioned this in my last post I think. Yea, we are each other's support system to keep us from doing something we normally wouldn't.
We also admitted we are both suffering from some pretty serious baby fever. Oooo, I bet that one was a shocker... No? Well it was to us when we admitted it to one another. It doesn't help that we know quite a few people who are expecting... Like at least half a dozen. No, there will be no new Wilson Baby in 2015, so just cool your jets.
This brings me to the next observation:
Okay, first I just looked over at my cat to find her on this mountain of throw pillows and blankets on the couch.... She looks quite happy.
Okay, back to the observation: Kid's toys are a pain in the arse to wrap! I was wrapping all our gifts tonight, and as I am wrapping the wee one's I started having flash backs to wrapping my nieces' and nephew's gifts way back when. It probably didn't help that I wrapped hers last AFTER wrapping everyone else's odd shaped gifts....
We had the tiny monster's one year appointment yesterday and I was happy to find that she has slowed down in growth. At her nine month she was in the 100% for height and 89% for weight and 96% for head circumference. At this check up she was 89% height, 82% weight and 86% head circumference. It's nice to finally have all her stats within a 10% range (7% technically).
Talked with her doctor about transitioning to milk, she said we could go forth and just cut out formula entirely, so we did. Today. She didn't seem any less content. Also, as she has only ever had her formula from a bottle, we eliminated those as well. She didn't seem to give a crap about the lack of bottles today.
Have I mentioned how much I love my little monkey? Seriously, we took them away cold turkey and she hasn't made a single fuss about it. I can't imagine having a more agreeable and easy going child. So I am prepared for future kid to be a little nightmare. Hahaha! No, I truly believe that we can have roughly the same outcome on demeanor in the early months if we stick to our style of parenting.
I am enjoying the tail end of my guilty holiday pleasure; Love Actually. I love this movie and could watch it a million times and never tire of it. We also shared the Labyrinth with the wee demon this evening, not that she actually paid attention to it at all. There were a couple of songs that almost sucked her in and that was about it. Maybe in a few years it will be more exciting for her.
The house truly feels like our home. I spent the better part of yesterday hanging some floating shelves on the living room wall around the TV and most all of our pictures are now hung in the hallway.
A week from now we are hosting our housewarming / the kid turned a year old party. With it ending up landing five short days from C day I'm thrown for a loop. What do I do for a theme? My thought? Nothing. There will be food and visiting and catching up and that's all I really want out of it.
Wednesday was crazy. I was feeling a little off and by the time we got home from picking up the kiddo at daycare I was beyond a little off. I pushed through and made dinner even though I almost burned it by needing to lay on the couch while it was cooking. I barely remember the evening. I couldn't remember where the thermometer was (still have a few boxes packed) so I used the little one's ear thermometer. I know, the thing really can't be inaccurate but I made myself think it was because I'm an adult... At one point it read 102.3 degrees... Many don't know this about me, but my internal temp has always ran lower than average. Typically I hover between 96.6 and 97.1 degrees. So I essentially had a "normal" person's fever of 104... Scary right? And then by bedtime I was down to 100 degrees and then when I woke up in the morning I was back to normal. The only other issues I had were some abdominal cramping and such that I will not expand on. No idea what happened. I think it may be tied to our crappy sleeping and stress and maybe a touch of food poisoning, but yea.... Weird. I know it freaked Collin out. I don't get fevers like that.... Ever. The one positive out of that little issue was I dropped all of my grieving weight......
Today was our company's children's holiday party. It was great fun. I was so proud when it was time for pictures with Santa, hell spawn did amazing! She didn't freak out, scream or cry! We couldn't get her to smile really but I'll take the no meltdown. She got a little gift bag with a little purple stuffed bunny and some coloring pages and such. We named the bunny Doug. One of his limbs was immediately being chewed on the moment he was placed in her hands. So I started calling it a new chew toy. Realistically, anything plush and fuzzy is just that for her while she is teething. Screw teething toys, give the kid a fleece blanket and she is good to go.... No joke.
Our company holiday luncheon was Thursday. Luckily, my appetite wasn't jacked after Wednesday's interlude. The lunch was catered by the Marriott and was amazeballs. Caesar salad, cheese tray, rice pilaf, green beans, beautifully cooked salmon, and some tangy sweet and sour meatballs (that's just what I partook of). And it was polished off with a wide array of yummy desserts. I had this light, decadent, chocolate mint cake. It was perfect. I really do enjoy working for this company because they really do value their employees and go above the societal norm to show them that. Side note: one of my team members celebrated her 35th year with the company and received a gorgeous diamond bracelet as a sign of their gratitude for her dedication, along with commemorative pin. Apparently they give pins out at the one year mark too (Collin should be due for his this week). It's just weird to work somewhere so employee oriented. It's also nice.
There was something else I was going to share but can't remember so I am going to tell you about the amazing pizza crust I made tonight using two (technically four) ingredients. Greek yogurt and self rising flour. It is really that easy. I personally don't keep self rising flour but found a nice quick fix for that so we'll go over that first. If you do not have self rising flour you can accomplish the same ends by pouring 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder into a one cup measuring cup and then filling the difference with plain old all purpose flour. The pizza dough recipe only calls for one cup of the self rising flour so you are good to go with that.
You mix the one cup self rising flour with one cup of greek yogurt. You can also add seasoning if you so choose. The recipe I found said to use a stand mixer on low for a minute to bring the dough together, but I don't see the point. I mixed mine with a rubber spatula by hand and it came together perfectly. While I was a-measuring and a-mixing the oven was a-preheating to 350 degrees F. Instead of greasing a cookie sheet I opted to use some parchment paper; what's great here is that you have something you can pull double duty with. I dumped the dough ball directly from bowl to parchment paper and then rolled it out with a floured rolling pin. Get it to your desired thickness then transfer it (parchment and all) to your pan/sheet.
The recipe I followed said to top and then bake for 20-30 minutes. I did mine for about 27 or 28 minutes. The crust was crisp-ish on the bottom and pretty chewy but not raw. Next time I may pre-cook the crust for about five minutes before adding the toppings... We'll see.
Considering the crust was so simple to pull together I must applaud it; this was the tastiest non-yeast pizza dough I have ever had. I strongly recommend it.
Now I am going to find some mindless thing to watch. Most likely a cooking show. I am really into Ree Drummond's Pioneer Woman right now.
They have a small collection of it on Netflix. Have a great night and enjoy your tomorrow! I know I will, baking and bath time for the little hellion.
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