Daddy time

I love this shot. Wil has started to impersonate Malcolm a lot, especially at the dinner table. He was trying to look at something on the laptop but the sun was in his eyes, of course Wil had to copy. It's very sweet.

Happy Fathers Day

Wil's drawing of her and daddy.

At the Fair

Easter Egg Hunt

W's Easter bunny bag for her first egg hunt at our neighbors house.

I realized the night before that i had forgotten to buy one so i had to quickly knock one up. Thankfully i had some bunny coloured felt and just used some old buttons for eyes.

W with Cleo and Sam waiting for the hunt to begin.

Yipee there's chocolate and jelly beans in the eggs.

Egg booty.

The aftermarth.

Happy Easter

Drawings and paperbag masks

I always wondered what to do with the many paper bags we have at home. Jack skellington masks of course now that Willow has become obsessed with The Nightmare Before Christmas.

A couple of Willow's many Jack Drawing's

Thumbprint Cookies

We always end up making biscuits or muffins on a rainy afternoon but this time Willow got to make them with her daddy. We found a simple jam cookie recipe from

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/jam-thumbprint-cookies-recipe/index.html. Luckily they are basically just butter, flour and sugar, which was pretty much all we had in the house. 

 

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Ingredients

• 3/4 pound (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water, for egg wash
• 7 ounces sweetened flaked coconut
• Raspberry and/or strawberry jam

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

In an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and sugar until they are just combined and then add the vanilla. Separately, sift together the flour and salt. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture to the creamed butter and sugar. Mix until the dough starts to come together. Dump on a floured board and roll together into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes.

Roll the dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. (If you have a scale they should each weigh 1 ounce.) Dip each ball into the egg wash and then roll it in coconut. Place the balls on an ungreased cookie sheet and press a light indentation into the top of each with your finger. Drop 1/4 teaspoon of jam into each indentation. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the coconut is a golden brown. Cool and serve.

4 day weekend

Yippee. Malcolm gets a four day weekend off work for Thanksgiving. He cooked a great thanksgiving dinner that we shared with our friends Holly and Ollie. We opted for a more English version.A sunday roast chicken with Yorkshire puddings instead of the traditional turkey. It is always a little stressful trying to get everything ready at the best of times without having a 2 year old demanding the chief's attentions. Even so it was well worth it. Dinner was a triumph.
We spent friday and saturday just hanging out, going to the park and dressing up.

 

Off out for a walk and lunch

The last stop of the day, the park

I could get used to 4 days weekends!