Wednesday, April 14, 2010

My Favorite Smile is Back!


So today has been a long but overall pretty good day and my little guy just made it ten times better by flashing me his simple smile. Yes, he usually smiles ALL the time, I know and I love it, but this morning he actually had an MRI and had to be put under anesthesia so he has not been quite his smiley self today. (The MRI was just a routine follow-up to an ultra-sound he had done when he was born due to a sacral dimple in his lower back. The doctors do not think there is a problem as he is developing pretty much perfectly, but because of the dimple they wanted to play it safe, hence the MRI) I am unbelievably relieved and excited it is over as it has been weighing on my mind more than I had even realized. We will get the results in a few days but for now I am just enjoying the evening with K and soaking in each and every smile he shares with me!!

Other news in my world is that my mom successfully defended her thesis and is now, officially Dr. Wesmiller - pretty crazy, my amazing Grandmother turned 84, and last but definitely not least my little brother left Afghanistan for his mid-deployment leave this morning (so at least for the next 2 weeks we won't have to worry about him!). So, like I said overall a pretty good day!

Okay moving onto the previously promised details of the second shower from my whirlwind weekend...

Shower #2: Karen's Baby Girl shower! Karen is one of my running buddies (who has been still running even 8mos preggo btw!!) ane her shower was hosted by her sister in-law, who is actually another running buddy of mine, Kate. The theme for Karen's shower was based on the AWESOME Dwell bedding Karen has picked to decorate the new little chica's room. Check out how cute (lucky little girl :) !!

Once Kate sent me the pic of this super cute bedding and told me she was going with a Spring/bird theme for the shower, I did my usual Google Image search again and came accross a really fun picture of baby bird cupcakes on the Martha Stewart web site: http://www.marthastewart.com/ The picture showed blue baby birds, but figured would be pretty easy to make the birds pink and thought the brown nests coordinated well with the Dwell bedding colors as well - so I was definitely excited to find this.

                                              

Of course, being from the Martha Stewart page the birds looked absolutely perfect, so was nervous to see if I could even get close! :) But gave it a shot and they actually turned out pretty okay in the end (well at least after tossing out the first batch of icing as it would not stay hard enough and the first few birdies I made melted within ten minutes of being created - oops!)

The cupcakes were the same doctored vanilla cake-mix ones I used for the first shower and the icing was a standard buttercream tinted pink for the birds and yellow for the beaks. The toasted coconut we made by throwing sweetened coconut in the oven for 15 mins (yes, I had to google this as well - hehe - as I had never toasted coconut before - it smells soooo good though!!! YUM!). The hardest part of putting these cupcakes together for me was putting in all of the little eyes. I ended up using chocolate jimmies for the eyes instead of the melted chocolate Martha suggested as that sounded super tricky!

And here finally is the finished product: 
All packed up and ready for the trip from PA to VA!
Luckily they made the trip well!

And Kate put them together as a super cute center piece - loved it!

So overall they turned out pretty cute and word on the street from the shower crowd is that they tasted pretty good - of course, there were SEVEN pregnant women (yes SEVEN - I actually felt out of place not being preggo :) so may have been a biased audience as I know when I was pregnant last year just about any sweet treats tasted pretty amazing!! The one thing I would love to figure out for next time is how Martha Stewart's team made the birdies so round looking and how the coconut stayed in longer, more nest like pieces. Martha magic I suppose :) 

Well now that the litlte guy is sound asleep for the night...guess I better follow suit so I am ready to be up at 3 or 4 with him (hopefully not sooner!) More cupcakes and fun to come this weekend! :) :)

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

My Favorite Smile is Back!

So today has been a long but overall pretty good day and my little guy just made it ten times better by flashing me his simple smile. Yes, he usually smiles ALL the time, I know and I love it, but this morning he actually had an MRI and had to be put under anesthesia so he has not been quite his smiley self today. (The MRI was just a routine follow-up to an ultra-sound he had done when he was born due to a sacral dimple in his lower back. The doctors do not think there is a problem as he is developing pretty much perfectly, but because of the dimple they wanted to play it safe, hence the MRI) I am unbelievably relieved and excited it is over as it has been weighing on my mind more than I had even realized. We will get the results in a few days but for now I am just enjoying the evening with K and soaking in each and every smile he shares with me!!

Other news in my world is that my mom successfully defended her thesis and is now, officially Dr. Wesmiller - pretty crazy, my amazing Grandmother turned 84, and last but definitely not least my little brother left Afghanistan for his mid-deployment leave this morning (so at least for the next 2 weeks we won't have to worry about him!). So, like I said overall a pretty good day!

Okay moving onto the previously promised details of the second shower from my whirlwind weekend...

Shower #2: Karen's Baby Girl shower! Karen is one of my running buddies (who has been still running even 8mos preggo btw!!) ane her shower was hosted by her sister in-law, who is actually another running buddy of mine, Kate. The theme for Karen's shower was based on the AWESOME Dwell bedding Karen has picked to decorate the new little chica's room. Check out how cute (lucky little girl :) !!

Once Kate sent me the pic of this super cute bedding and told me she was going with a Spring/bird theme for the shower, I did my usual Google Image search again and came accross a really fun picture of baby bird cupcakes on the Martha Stewart web site: http://www.marthastewart.com/ The picture showed blue baby birds, but figured would be pretty easy to make the birds pink and thought the brown nests coordinated well with the Dwell bedding colors as well - so I was definitely excited to find this.

                                              

Of course, being from the Martha Stewart page the birds looked absolutely perfect, so was nervous to see if I could even get close! :) But gave it a shot and they actually turned out pretty okay in the end (well at least after tossing out the first batch of icing as it would not stay hard enough and the first few birdies I made melted within ten minutes of being created - oops!)

The cupcakes were the same doctored vanilla cake-mix ones I used for the first shower and the icing was a standard buttercream tinted pink for the birds and yellow for the beaks. The toasted coconut we made by throwing sweetened coconut in the oven for 15 mins (yes, I had to google this as well - hehe - as I had never toasted coconut before - it smells soooo good though!!! YUM!). The hardest part of putting these cupcakes together for me was putting in all of the little eyes. I ended up using chocolate jimmies for the eyes instead of the melted chocolate Martha suggested as that sounded super tricky!

And here finally is the finished product: 
All packed up and ready for the trip from PA to VA!
Luckily they made the trip well!

And Kate put them together as a super cute center piece - loved it!

So overall they turned out pretty cute and word on the street from the shower crowd is that they tasted pretty good - of course, there were SEVEN pregnant women (yes SEVEN - I actually felt out of place not being preggo :) so may have been a biased audience as I know when I was pregnant last year just about any sweet treats tasted pretty amazing!! The one thing I would love to figure out for next time is how Martha Stewart's team made the birdies so round looking and how the coconut stayed in longer, more nest like pieces. Martha magic I suppose :) 

Well now that the litlte guy is sound asleep for the night...guess I better follow suit so I am ready to be up at 3 or 4 with him (hopefully not sooner!) More cupcakes and fun to come this weekend! :) :)

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