This Is My Island in the Sun

I bought a pineapple to make Hawaiian pizza, my favourite. And today I wanted to do some baking with the boys. We decided to go for Tropical Pineapple Cupcakes. Why not double the pineapple fun?

You need

6 tablespoons soft margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
2/3 cup flour
2 pineapple rings, finely chopped (plus one tbsp juice if using canned)

Cream butter and sugar. And egg. Add flour. Add pineapple.
Makes 12 small cupcakes.
Bake at 350 for 22 minutes.

Cool and Ice...

1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup icing sugar
1 tablespoon lime juice

Beat together until smooth.

Top with finely grated coconut.

Enjoy!!

When The Weather is Nice...

We have had a beautiful winter so far this year. And when it is this nice, I just have to get the boys outside to enjoy it. I was inspired by some snow-play they did at playgroup. They had a big bucket of snow and spray bottles full of kool-aid. It was fun to "paint" the snow. Well, I had neither spray bottles nor kool-aid, but a couple of pop bottles with a hole punched in the lid and water mixed with a little acrylic paint worked pretty well for us. Though it didn't smell delicious like the kool-aid!

A Day in the Blue Kitchen

I love my kitchen. Everything seems to happen there. We not only bake, cook, and eat, but we also play, laugh, dance, share, make, create, pray, sing, and goof around. Here are my two little goofballs playing with a bucket of cookie cutters and an empty cereal box. 

And FYI, this quirky outfit Daniel picked out all by himself. That's right, a "Cars 2" t-shirt and fleecy penguins playing hockey pajama pants. Jeff picked out the striped socks. And yes, he did leave the house like this.

Spaghetti Time

Who does't love a picture of a kid covered in spaghetti? Seriously, spaghetti makes for the best ever messy food face pictures. So here are a couple:

I really don't know who taught Daniel how to eat spaghetti.
He picked up each long piece and slurped it down.
He also thought he was hilarious.
He is.

Jacob wanted us to take a picture of his bread.
We rarely get a good picture of him smiling.
This one is GREAT, except for the bread.