My Son the Hobbit

This post is definitely 9 days late.

Sorry about that...  Oops.  I've been surprisingly busy this past week and a half.  It's funny how life can get so crazy all of a sudden.

 

I won't make you wait any longer!

Here is the picture of my son in his Halloween costume.

Not many people got that HE was a Hobbit nor a BOY!  Poor thing keeps getting called a girl because of his long hair that his father and I are in love with!

 

 

This picture I know doesn't have the best quality but it's been extremely hard taking pictures of him lately because he's been such a little busy body.
I made his Hobbit feet and cloak, the cloak was made out of an old black adult sized t-shirt.  The shirt, jacket and pants I bought at Goodwill.  I dyed what were khaki pants into brown ones and then I cut his pants and shirt to give them that "worn 'n' torn" look about them.  It was such a fun outfit to put together for him.  I think he makes the perfect little Hobbit.  I also had a double finger feather ring that was tied in with his cloak under his chin and a leather strung necklace with an old ring on it. 

 

Here's a picture of our pumpkins that David carved that I have to show off.

I drew faces on the one in the middle and the right side.
My Babe couldn't make a cool face with his (on the left) because the skin of the pumpkin was at least a quarter of an inch thick.  Tuff stuff!  You can tell how thick it is in the picture because the pumpkin is all black.  You can't see any light through it's skin like the other two.
The way we figure the pumpkins...
The one of the left is David, the middle is our son and I'm on the right.
Aren't they/we adorable?

 

We had such a fun time taking our son out Trick or Treating.  I rolled/sprang/fractured/something that hurt my ankle really bad and left me half crippled the day before Halloween so I hobbled around the neighborhood we were in trying to make the best of it.

 

Perhaps you're wondering how I hurt my ankle?
EVIL SPIDER!
I saw a tiny EVIL spider on my living room wall, I grabbed a flip flop and jumped up and smacked it's guts out and landed on the side of my right ankle.  OH MY LORD!  I have a terribly ugly black, purple and green bruise all over my foot and it swelled pretty badly.  I wasn't able to walk for 3-4 days, I can walk on it now but it start to hurt really bad after a short period of time and driving even hurts it.  Ouch!
Some say "I bet you learned your lesson, killing that spider and all."
My response "Heck NO!  It might have gotten me to hurt myself but I killed him!"
So who really won this battle?

Spider 1 - Me 2

Brouhaha.

Again, I know this is late but I hope you all had a safe, happy and memorable Halloween.

 

Peace, Love & CANDY TIME!

Hobbit Halloween Costume

My son is 18 months old this month and we still haven't cut his beautifully long curling ends of reddish/brown hair.  Even though people tell us at least once a week that we should have cut it a long time ago.  Ugh, I hate it that!

Anyways, I was trying to think of a good Halloween costume for him this year and the thought of a Hobbit popped into mind.  OH A HOBBIT!  How perfect!  He has the perfect look for it, loves walking around outside with large sticks so I know he'll walk about with a "walking stick" and I figured I could find all the perfect outfit pieces for his costume at the Goodwill, which I was able to do today! 

I am so excited about the pieces that I found.  I really wanted to find dark brown pants but I couldn't.  I did find a pair of khakis and I think I'm just going to go to the super market and buy some dark brown dye and dye them.
I'm concerned about dying a pair of khakis because I know you're suppose to only dye white fabric....  So...  Yeah...  I need to find out some dying information.
(If you, yes you! Know anything about dying clothes I would love some feed back. Pretty please and thank you!)
I also found a white button up long shelve shirt that I'll have to alter just a tad and a dark green corduroy jacket that has cute little patches on the elbows of the shelves that's a few sizes to big which is perfect for the "Hobbit" look.
I have a few ideas on how to make a cloak but I'm not completely sure yet.
I also have a few other ideas that I'm pondering on but I'll save those for the pictures I plan to post as a "Halloween Costume Preview".

Recipe for Sugar Cookies.

Today has been a great day!  I got to sleep in because David woke up with Milo this morning.  He's actually been getting up with him for the past week.  I'm so lucky to have such a great man in my life!
I hung around the house for about an hour when I woke up then played on the computer while feeding Milo.  Afterwards it was nap time for David and baby so they laid on the couch while I started making homemade sugar cookies!  I made the dough and put it in the fridge to chill.  David left for work early because he wanted to get his hair cut and I started on the dishes.  About 3 or so hours later I got the dough out and started rolling it out on the table and used my Halloween cookies cutters that I got at a Liquidation Outlet for a whooping $0.50!!!
I only had 2 mishaps today.  The first crumby thing that happened was, when I was washing dishes my cell phone was on the counter next to the sink and it got wet and died on me.  I didn't even know till hours later but it dried out and started right up! :) Yay!
The second crumby thing was, Milo and I were playing in the bedroom and he grabbed my face and stuck one of his fingers in my left nostril and ripped it out really fast and of course scratching the inside of it and gave me a bloody nose.  I didn't even realize that he had scratched me that hard until my nose was dripping blood.  I've never had a bloody nose in my life and the first time I get one it was giving to me by a baby!  Really now?  The up side to this story is that it didn't bleed very long and I didn't get blood on anything!  Yay again!
I warn all new mothers though, just because your baby is cute and cuddly like a puppy don't be fooled because they have retractable claws like kitty cats!

Did anyone know that tonight is a Harvest Moon?
Once my phone came back on I got a million voice mails and text messages and one of the messages was David telling me to go outside and look at it.  Isn't he the sweetest?  Don't be jealous you know he is!
It was weird turning my phone on earlier and getting all those missed calls and texts.  The reason for being so weird is because I NEVER get calls and messages unless they're from David when he's at work.  Just figures I become so popular when my phone is off on a fritz.  hahaha Oh well it was like a big surprise of love all at once.

I feel like I'm forgetting to mention something else but I can't remember so I'll get on with the cookie recipe.

I found a recipe online and made some adjustments to it so yes... I am going to claim it as my own.
This was the first time I've ever made homemade sugar cookies and I think they turned out wonderfully!


Ingredients:
1/2 Cup Butter
1/2 Cup Margarine (Country Crock)
1 Cup Sugar
2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 Large Egg
2 1/4 Cup Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Powder

Directions:

• 1) In a medium bowl, mix the butter and margarine together.  Don't melt it!  Mix it at room tempature or slightly chilled.  (Mine was slightly chilled.)
• 2) Add sugar, mix together.  
• 3) Add vanilla and egg, mix together.  
• 4) Add your baking soda and baking powder and mix.  
• 5) Slowly add your flour and mix well each time you add more. (I hand mix everything.)
• 6) Chill your dough for 3 - 4 hours. (I chilled mine 2 hours in the fridge and 1 hour in the freezer.)
• 7) Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• 8) Oil your cookie sheet, (I take a paper towel and rub margarine all over it.)
• 9) Take your flour and dust your flat surface that you'll be using to roll out the dough, (I use my kitchen table because the bigger your space the easier it'll be.)
• 10) Grab a big blob of dough, mush it together into a ball (doesn't have to be perfect, remember the more you work your dough the warm/softer it'll be and you want it to remain as chilled as possible.)
• 11) Lightly dust your dough with flour, (helps it from sticking to your surface.)
• 12) Dust your rolling pin, (same reason, it helps it from sticking.)
• 13)Start in the middle of your dough and lightly push the dough in all directions, (don't "push" down on the dough, you'll be surprised how well it flattens it's self.)
• 14) Take your desired cookie cutter and cut out your shapes and bake them in the oven for 10 minutes.
• 15) When you take out the cookies let them set for about 6 or so minutes (until they feel cool enough to touch.)

Repeat steps 8 thru 15 until your dough is all used up.
(I like to take a paper towel and wipe off the cookie crumbs that are left behide once you take them off the cookie sheet and re-oil your cookie sheet each and everytime.)

Icing:
I cheated on the icing, I bought vanilla cake icing and spooned it out into a small pot and warmed it on the stove until it was liquid.  I used a non-stick pot and the lowest setting on the stove top because if it gets to hot to fast it clums up and hardens.  Very gross and hard to clean!)  When your icing is melted pour it into a small bowl and use food coloring to dye it your desired color.  Then I used a teaspoon to scoop a little bit of the icing and spread it over the cookies.
Well there that is  I hope ya'll enjoy! :)