After all our parties and stuff were over, I didn't get many more x-mas and birthday pics because, well, this was happening:
Here she is nibbling a chocolate bunny at Easter. We stayed home for Easter and had a great time. She played with the pink paper Easter grass for days.
Another highlight of our spring were these tiny turtles. We stumbled across them (literally) in the yard one day and checked them out. Then we checked on them every day for about a week until they both moved on or...something (yeah, let's go with "they found a happy turtle home").
Isa finished up her first year of preschool at the end of May. She loved her class and teachers. We thought about trying early kindergarten since she is so smart and mature for her age, but she gets along really well with her classmates, and we didn't want to rush her into a five-day-a-week full time school.
Especially since for her 5th birthday, we're GOIN' to DISNEY WORLD! :)
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| Fairy Isa |
It will be the last year we can just do whatever we want without worrying about missing school, and she turns 5 in December. So we thought it would be a great time to go before she ages out of a lot of the Disney stuff. It's also coming up on mine and D's 15th anniversary, and that's where we went on our honeymoon.
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| Princess Isa |
Planning our Disney trip has taken my mind off of other things, such as D. finding out he's allergic to even more stuff: oats and wheat. He had another severe reaction that clued us in to that, one involving 911 (again!) and the e-room. But this time he actually swallowed part of the offending food so it was like a little bomb going off internally. NOT fun. After that, he injured his back, and it took him weeks to recover. But he is feeling better now and we're thankful he's back in good health.
I even figured out how to make him cake for Father's Day.
All those nice gluten-free treats and mixes out there cause big problems for D. They either contain or call for eggs. So we reverted way back in time before I knew about Depression Cake. All the way back to when the only way I knew to make eggless cake was to dump a can of Coke into a cake mix. And darned if it didn't work out perfectly fine for a GF mix.
I used Betty Crocker's GF version. The reason I chose Betty rather than a different brand is, the original Coke cake worked best with a mainstream brand of mix. It took less coke than a standard mix - just about a cup. But it rose and baked fine, and was sturdy enough to hold up the massive pile of frosting I put on there (frosting is GF by nature. Thank the Universe for small favors).
I would post a recipe but there really isn't one. A standard GF cake mix (I know Betty works and others probably do too; would love to hear from others who try it) and a cup of Coke (or diet coke, or sprite...). Stir, pour into a pan prepared the way it says on the box, and bake according to package directions. Easy as pie...er...cake. I still haven't figured GF pie out.
