Caleb's New Look

Last year, while we were at this Christmas tree place, Caleb fell on some concrete steps and chipped his front tooth. He recovered quickly and we saw no problems other than the small chip (which I've grown partial to) in front...

But the tooth was apparently compromised and became infected, so....this morning we had to have it pulled!

Now, I was kind of sad about his soon to be toothless smile, but actually I kind of love it!

There is something so sweet about his newly missing tooth and it makes me wonder if maybe when

this guy is born, we will have to find a new brotherly nickname

...because "Bubba" seems to fit someone else in the family just about right!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Oops, I'm a little behind on the birthday blog for Collin...

Perhaps the three weeks of virus going around our house have set me back, anyway, we still managed to have a super fun birthday for Collin last week when he turned, gasp, 32!

Here is a list of your year's biggest accomplishments sweetheart:

-Buying our first house!!!

-Conceiving our third little boy!!

-Studying like crazy to become certified in Project Management on the first try of the test!!

-Teaching Caden to hit a baseball!!

-Competing in a number of fantasty leagues!

-Training for a half marathon (which I am sure you will still run someday)

-Being the best Dad and Husband a girl could ask for!

We love you! Happy Birthday!

We can't wait to see what you do before 33...

Halloween!

Our day started with a fun driving adventure to Georgetown where we discovered this amazing park! I think Daddy was ready to get out after being home alone with the boys all morning while Mommy taught Sunday School at church (both boys have been sick this weekend...)

Then after some "arts and crafts" time while Mommy made costumes (procrastinator!) it was time for trick or treating!

This is what Caden wanted to be: a giant red angry bird from his Favorite iphone game, and he wanted Caleb to be one of the little blue birds...My version came complete with "angry eyebrows", and tail-feathers...See below...

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Caleb was very interested in the social aspect, he made sure to tell everyone "bye". He also spent most of his time lagging behind because he was more interested in eating the bag of Reices Pieces Mommy gave him!

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The best moment: inspecting the goods

Here is my recycled pregnancy costume that little baby C got to wear!

8 Months pregnant with Caden in the same costume!

Fluffy Pancakes and Blueberry Syrup

I decided to try and post some of my favorite-use all the time-best recipes

Here is, in my opinion, the most delicious pancake recipe ever!

(only adding ricotta is "original", I copied it from allrecipes.com)

Fluffy Pancakes

1 1/2 cups milk

1/4 cup white vinegar

2 cups flour

1/3 cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

1/4 cup butter, melted

1/2 cup ricotta cheese, optional

1. Combine milk w vinegar in a bowl and set aside for 5 minutes. (this helps turn the milk into buttermilk for thick rich pancakes)

2. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Sift if you want extra fluffy pancakes.

3. Whisk milk, eggs, butter (once cooled from melting), eggs, and ricotta (if using) together. Add to dry ingredients. If using ricotta you may need to add a splash of milk so that the batter isn't too thick. Pour 1/4 cups onto medium skillet, flip, and enjoy!

Blueberry Syrup

1/2 cup frozen blueberries

2 tablespoons of syrup or sugar

1 tablespoon butter

1. Heat blueberries in microwave for about 30 seconds or until warm. The juices should be running out..

2. Add sugar or syrup, and butter. Pour over pancakes. Yum!

Baby Video

baby6 from Jennifer Bartley on Vimeo.

Here is a clip of the video from our fun 3D sonogram...if you spend time to watch give it about 30 seconds and you can see more than in the beginning! I can't believe how much more I feel like I know this baby just by seeing this sneak preview!

By the way it is labeled Baby6 because it was my SIXTH attempt to get the thing loaded from the dvd they gave us and onto blogger. I really don't want to talk about it except to say that this is the reason I stopped blogging so much...I get obsessed about computer stuff and waste way too much time on it while my kids are being neglected :(