Here are the two faces of our little troll! The last couple of nights Avery will go to sleep without too much of a protest, sleep for a couple of hours then wake up crying. The morning comes and Avery is asleep in bed with me and Brian has moved into the other room. She has been congested and not feeling well which makes for two tired parents the next day! The FDA has basically taken all cold/cough/congestion meds off the shelves so Vicks Vapor Rub it has been. I told Brian that tonight we are setting up her humidifier and seeing if that will help. The air is soo much more dry than in Laredo, hopefully that will do the trick and we can get a full nights rest! 
Brian's brother Chauncy and his wife Kelli and big sister Elise welcomed their new baby Kamilla Inez Johnson on Friday the 19th of October. She weighed 7 lbs 5oz and 201/2 inches long! She was born on Brian's father's--her grandfathers birthday. What a wonderful birthday present! They call her Millie! Congratulations Chauncy and Kelli! We can't wait to meet you Millie.
I made the best cookies ever this weekend! Can you say pregnant! I found the recipe on another blog I frequently read and decided to try them out. I am glad I did and now I feel it is my responsibility to share this awesome recipe with all of my many (2 hehe) readers. If you make these, I promise you will not be disappointed and your family will love you forever.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip and Coconut Cookies
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 C brown sugar, packed
6 T sugar- 2 large eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking soda
1 C flour
2 1/4 C oats
1 1/2 C coconut
12 oz semi-sweet mini chocolate chips (2 cups)
Preheat oven to 350 F. Beat butter and sugars at high speed until fluffy. Add eggs and beat till blended. Beat in vanilla, baking soda, and salt. Add flour and mix at low speed until blended. Stir in oats, coconut and chocolate.Arrange 1/4 cup mounds about 3 inches apart on large buttered baking sheets. Pat down to 1/2 inch. Bake in upper oven, rotating occasionally, 15-18 mins. Cool one minute. Transfer to cooling rack. For smaller cookies, adjust baking time...but they are great when they're BIG!
This recipe is a keeper. In other news non food related, Brian gets his root canal done tomorrow, so that means I get to husband sit for the rest of the afternoon..:) It is a two part process so yippee to me I get to endure it twice too. I don't know if it is the nurse in me that isn't very sensitive to my husband when he is in pain or sick because I have dealt with "fakers" for so long or if its just the "I don't want to bring the work home with me" kinda attitude. I need a change of attitude or at least fake it better.
Avery today at church lost all privileges to attend Relief Society with me. She will now have to go with daddy for the next 3 months til she is in nursery. Could not happen fast enough for me. This age is SO tough because she just wants to be down and running around and its too early for nap time so she is in rare form. Today in RS she was running around like a crazy child whose mother could care less about what their child was doing or acting like. She grabbed some sister's water bottle and started drinking it, stole some other child's Cheerios and took them to the front of the classroom where she proceeded to leave them so the poor boy couldn't have any. After the longest lesson in history, we were singing the closing hymn when Avery stood at the front of the classroom and opened a hymnal and belted out the loudest version of "her" hymn. Everyone started laughing, I wanted to dig a hole. Of course all of the sisters afterwards said what a cutie she was and not to worry about her walking around during the class and etc...but I am sure they were thinking, I'm glad that isn't my child. After apologizing to the mother of the stolen Cheerios, I ran out of RS sweaty and embarrassed swearing I would never return with my 15 month old!
