Yum-O

Have you ever tried nutella? I am absolutely obsessed with it. I try not to buy it often because I could eat an entire jar in one sitting. HA! It has been a while since I have had any and I almost bought some at the store the other day, but I fought the urge. It just so happened that my Nanny had an ENORMOUS jar of nutella at her house when we went and visited on Saturday and she sent it home with me. Not a good idea for a girl who is desperately trying to lose pregnancy weight. Oh well..............someone was going to have to eat it.

My favorite way to enjoy nutella is with pretzel snaps! What is your favorite snack?

Recipe Blog Hop

I decided to give the blog hop a try this week. Hopefully I can figure it out. Ha!

Crab Dip in a Bread Bowl

This is my most favorite dish to take to gatherings!

Ingredients:

11 ounces cream cheese, softened

1 small onion, finely chopped

5 tablespoons mayonnaise

2 (6 ounce) cans crab meat, drained and flaked

1/8 teaspoon garlic powder

salt and pepper to taste

1 (1 pound) round loaf Italian bread

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine cream cheese, onion, mayonnaise, crab meat, garlic powder, salt and pepper.

Spread into a baking dish.

Bake for 20 min.

While the dip is baking, cut a circle in the top of the bread and scoop out the inside to create a bread bowl.

Tear the removed bread into pieces for dipping.

Remove baked crab dip from the oven and stir well.

Spoon the mixture into the hollowed out loaf.

Place bread bowl and chunks of bread on a medium baking sheet.

Bake for 10 additional minutes.

Serve hot.

*I usually serve it with crackers too. It's so good that the bread pieces don't last long! ENJOY!

Getting Ready

I'm counting down the days until we introduce Bryce to real food! I feel kind of bad saying that because it's like I'm trying to make him grow up too fast, but I look forward to all the fun things he gets to do as he gets older! We're going to try rice cereal at 5 months, which happens to be THIS Saturday. Can you believe it?!? I've been looking for a high chair so he can eat in a big boy chair, but I have not been able to find one that I like. I decided to get a tray for the Bumbo instead. This way he can sit on the table and eat with us. Unfortunately after a few meals of real food he may be too big for the Bumbo. Ha! Just look at those rolls.

He looks like he knows what he is doing. Hopefully he will sit that straight and still when it really is time to eat. Wishful thinking!

If he could talk I'm pretty sure he would be saying, "Where's the food?"

Now he is saying, "I guess I'll just have to eat my hands if you aren't going to give me anything."

He knew there was suppose to be something on the tray for him so I gave him a toy. Hopefully that doesn't encourage him to play with his food. I'm sure he will do that anyway!

You can never have too many pictues of this cutie

Feet for dinner

I've been waiting for the day that Bryce could get his feet in his mouth

This is Bryce taking a nap. Ha! More like play time in the crib to tire him out for a nap. He goes right to sleep at night when we put him in his crib, but he hasn't figured out how to do that during the day for a nap. He rolls around and wedges himself into the corner and then finally falls asleep.

Once he gets himself wedged into the corner, he puts his hands out and holds on to the rails.

Too cute

A visit to Suffolk

We took a trip to Suffolk today to visit Nanny and Poppy. Bryce was such a good boy. He usually sleeps in the car, but not today. He was wide awake on the way down there and on the way back, but he was good the whole time! He has been taking a 2 hour nap everyday, but not today. He decided he needed to be awake for the whole trip since he doesn't get to see Nanny and Poppy very often.

Poppy enjoyed holding Bryce

Bryce enjoyed riding in Nanny's lap on the way to visit Poppy

We picked Nanny and Poppy up and took them to lunch at Wendy's. They can't turn down a chocolate Frosty! Mama and Nanny ran some errands while the rest of us relaxed and watched tv. When everyone got back, we enjoyed this lovely cupcake rainbow cake. Isn't it cute?! We stopped at the Tasty Treat on the way home to get the rest of our sugar fix for the day. They have the BEST soft serve.

Where's Bryce?

Jason loves playtime with Bryce. He enjoys putting stuff over Bryce's face and asking, "Where's Bryce?" Normally, Bryce wiggles and squirms because he doesn't like having his face covered. So Jason uncovers him and says, "There he is." Well as of today, Bryce doesn't mind having his face covered and he plays along with the game on his own. Check out this video Jason made tonight. I just love how wide open his eyes are when he takes the blanket off!

Pictures of Bryce

I found some random pictures on my camera so I decided to post them.

Nana and Pappy bought Bryce a life jacket so he would be safe and legal on the boat the next time we go out. I think it will fit better once we put him in the water with it on.

Bryce is putting everything in his mouth these days. We keep waiting for a tooth to pop up.

I love a boy in plaid pants. I have to put them on Bryce because Jason won't wear plaid!

Are You Following??

I have recently become obsessed with blogging. It might be due to the fact that I have an incredible amount of time to kill now that I'm at home with Bryce. I'm curious as to how many people are following our blog. I love blogging for our 7 known followers (as seen in the followers window on the sidebar), but I would love to know how many of you are closet followers. If you want to come out, simply click on the join this site button on the followers window on the sidebar!

Ugh......

Yes, this site is ALL about Bryce, but I couldn't help myself. Jon Gosselin is just trash! I loved their family and their show and I felt so bad when they announced their divorce. I don't feel so bad for him anymore. I realize they are divorcing because they are not happy anymore, and people move on, but SO soon?? I feel so bad for their kids when they see this on the front of a magazine in the grocery store. Just a SAD story.

taco night

Last night we went over to Justin and Beth's for tacos. Don't the newlyweds look happy! Bryce was an absolute angel last night. I'm not sure if he liked being away from home and in a new setting or if he just loved 2 hours of attention from his daddy! We may need to have taco night every week!

As you can see, Bryce loves his daddy and he misses him SO much during the day. Bryce didn't fuss at all while we were at their house. Daddy is good at entertaining. Bryce enjoyed listening to his daddy talk about guns and hunting as long as he was patting his back.

We forgot to bring a bib............can you tell?!? I just love the little drop of drool on his chin. You would think Bryce has about 5 teeth coming in with the amount of drool he produces, but he has NONE.

So excited to finally get some family photos.