This and that

Sid is close to 6 months now and has started identifying people and his surroundings. Anything which looks new on his radar excites him to no end and he either stares at the new thing/person constantly or he tries to reach out and grab it.

Now I know why mothers get only 2/3 months maternity leave at work! Its soooooo much easier to leave the kid at home and go to work when the kid is 2-3 months. Now, he smiles, talks, recognizes you and what not! Its going to be very tough leaving him and going to work. Working from home was better.

Deepawali was fun with family. Sid was the star attraction of course! He must have enjoyed it thoroughly, as he refused to be put to sleep 2 days in a row!

My experiments with the oven continues and the oat cookies I tried came out burnt. The temperature is to be further reduced and the heating coils need to be taken to task! :-|

Sid typed on the laptop for the first time. These were his exact words/lyrics..call it what you want to!

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At 11.00pm, Josh nudges me and suddenly asks - 'Do you know what gives me immense satisfaction?'. A few things come to my mind. Maybe the fact that he put the kid to sleep and in spite of the cracker sounds in the neighborhood, he has not got up.. Or maybe the fact that he cleaned his beloved cycle and changed the tire's tube today?

Aloud, I ask, 'What?'

He says 'There is a whole stack of pigs and with 1 single yellow bird, you hit the wooden base and all the pigs fall and die'

A moment of silence and then I said 'This is so going on my blog!'

From bread to brownie

Today evening I tried making a lot of new stuff in the kitchen. One was peanut butter from scratch. The other was a bread rava sandwich and the other a microwave chocolate brownie. All recipes taken from various food blogs.

The peanut butter came out fine, the end mixture was a lil coarse but since I like coarse peanut butter i'll think of it as a success! ;-)

The rava bread thingy was the simplest of all. (I was unable to get the proper link or the blog ot which it belonged. Sorry! :( ) Make a rava batter (like you make for rava rotti). Make it a little watery so that you can spread a layer of it on the bread. Then toast the bread as usual, rava side facing the tava so that it gets cooked properly. It tasted good.

The brownie recipe said its a 2 minute microwave version and I took 30 minutes!!! They never mention the preparation time do they!?!?! :-| Well, anywaz the recipe was good and the result was ok. It had a little more essence which the others didn't like that much, but a good start nevertheless. Now to progress to making brownies in the OTG and see how it goes!