Randomness v37

1.
Bear-  Sometimes I wish my fingers were scissors.


2.
Bear-  I never can sometimes get to sleep.



3.
Monkey- Look mom!  It looks like I'm getting ready to run! (see picture)

4.
Monkey-  This is soaking wet, and it's supposed to be soaking dry.



5.
I bumped my elbow and it really hurt so I was sitting there ooohing and ahhhhing.  Bear comes up gives me a hug, then says....come on, Be a MAN!
Hahaha...I tell them to man up all the time.




 

Immanuel, "God with us"

We are learning this verse,

Matthew 1:23
and they will call him Immanuel, which means, God with us.

So as a word picture, we printed out two little people/gingerbread men. :)  Wrote Immanuel on one and our name on the other, then colored, cut out and glued their hands together.

Immanuel means God with us....so the word picture is GOD, with US!  And now it's taped on the sliding door for all to see, and for us to remember that God truly is always with us.



 

Cookie Dough Brownies

Brownie layer:
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla

In a mixing bowl, combine sugar, flour and cocoa.  Add oil, eggs and vanilla; beat at medium speed for 3 minutes.  Pour into a 9x11 pan.  Bake at 350 for 30 minutes, or until they test completely done.  Let stand to cool completely.

Cookie dough layer:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
2 Tbsp milk
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour

Cream butter and sugars together.  Add  milk and vanilla and mix well.  Beat in flour, spread over the cooled brownie layer.  Chill until firm.

Chocolate topping:

1/2 pkg semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 Tbsp shortening

For glaze topping, melt chocolate chips and shortening in a saucepan.  Stirring until smooth.  Spread over the chilled cookie dough later.  Let stand to harden the chocolate.

Enjoy!


**My notes about this recipe.**  I think the brownie recipe is a little dense.  If I were to make this again I think I would use my regular homemade brownie recipe instead of this given one.  Then the cookie dough layer is not thick enough! ;)  I think I might double it next time so you taste a little more cookie dough and a little less brownie. But that is just my personal opinion!

My kids love it, so they will enjoy this dessert for the next few days. lol





 

City Map

I made my own map of my town, for the kids to use in the car.

I looked up my address in google....then printed out part of the map, then move it over, and printed it, and so on until I had all the coverage I wanted.  Then I taped it together and used a contact/laminate sheet on just the top side.  Now we bring it in the car and the kids try to follow along to where we are going.  And if we show them where it is ahead of time they will try to map out all the different ways we could go to get there.

 The red dot shows where we live so they always know where to start on the map.  I made it just big enough to read all the street names, but not too big it's not manageable for using in the vehicle.

 The whole city put together.

Now I'm going to mark numbers with the regular places we go, and put a key in the bottom corner.
1= church
2= bank
3= library
etc.. :)