Shots, shots, shots...

...turn happy baby into cranky baby. With any luck she'll also be sleepy baby. Poor baby...



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Good mood food.

Banana, summer squash, and avocado! Next up, butternut squash, pear, and sweet potato.


Everyone had to have known that feeding the little bean was going to be one of my favorite parts. I can't wait until we get to the good stuff!

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Back to life.

I keep trying to sit down and write in this here blog. But every time I do all I want to do is write about babies. And I stop myself because I have been cooking up a storm, throwing parties, doing crafts, reading, watching...I have been doing things other than baby these days also! And I have been trying so hard to not turn this blog into THAT kind of blog. And well, I don't really remember why. When I started this thing it was just meant to be a place to drop my thoughts off. So folks, we are going back to my roots. Even if that means this Casa turns into a big fat mom blog. CasaMama. CasaBebe. I mean, the reality is that CasaIrlanda is pretty much a big house of baby right now anyways...so let's roll with it!


The first days.



Yesterday.

It feels good to be back.



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hello? is this thing on?

oh hi.

I had a baby.

She's a little distracting.

I mean come on, would you want to be on the computer if you had this to stare at all day?

I'll be back. I've been crafting some, and cooking some (gluten free again!). And I've been doing a lot of thinking too...so don't worry. Just give me a little more time, for now I've got diapers to change and baby face to kiss.

Wake and bake...

My cousin says baby girl doesn't want to come out because the foods too good at the Womb Inn. I might have to agree. Coffee cake and my world famous sea salt chocochoco chip cookies. And these are just what I have photo's of. There's been pumpkin mochi cake (if you haven't tried this or made it and love a really dense cake you must!), a bellewood acres jonagold apple pie, grandma's okanomyaki, gyoza, and chicken spaghetti. Plus! Jesse's off work now so even breakfast has been gourmet! I ran out of flour so I'm hoping without all the baking going on this little one will decide she's done baking too...3 days shy of 41 weeks.

Pumpkin Mochi Cake Recipe (based on the allrecipes.com recipe)

2 1/2 cups mochiko (glutinous rice flour)

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup white sugar

1 cup brown sugar

4 eggs

1 (29 ounce) can pumpkin puree (I used a real pie pumpkin that I roasted with just some butter. I scooped out the meat and blended it with a little apple juice to make it smooth like canned pumpkin. Oh, and I added a tsp. of cinnamon!)

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

1 cup butter, melted

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish. Sift together the mochiko, baking powder, and white sugar in a large bowl. Mix together the eggs, pumpkin puree, condensed milk, butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a separate bowl. Stir the egg mixture into the mochiko mixture. Pour into the prepared dish. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour. Allow to cool before serving.

Jesse will eat an entire cake in one sitting, so if he's near, hide the cake!

xoxo.

Why can't men witch have babies?

...Because they have HOLLOW WEENIES!!!

(groan, I know.)

Despite being 38 weeks pregnant we couldn't pass up my favorite holiday. We love this shit so much we celebrated twice. Which is one less than usual, but one more than last year. We did it so good we even had two sets of costumes. Hallownerds, for sure.

Happy Halloween from our crazy family to yours.

xoxo.

A sneak peek-a-boo

...wondering where I've been? Well, drowning in the fun o' remodeling a room and decorating a nursery for our up and very soon coming baby girl. Not quite done yet...but here is a preview!











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