Happy 6 months old Trevor!

Trevor turns six months old today. Wow, I can't believe it's been six months already!!! It's gone by fast. Here are some pics I took today:

Trevor eats peas...

We decided to let Trevor try peas for lunch. We just bought the Gerber kind. He seemed to like the peas. He ate most of the package which is 2.5 oz. =)

Trevor sitting up....kind of

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Here's a video of Trevor sitting up.....hehe.

Trevor and Daddy playing

Here's a video of Daddy giving Trevor raspberries and Trevor making lots of noise...lol. He sounded like he was giggling right before this video but I missed it. This was taken on Sunday.

Skeleton...

Lola and Lolo(Grandma and Grandpa) from Georgia sent Trevor a nice package filled with a cute Halloween outfit including socks and a bib for his first Halloween. Trevor thanks them!! Here are some pics:

Trevor's first night in his crib...

Trevor slept in his crib for the first time last night. After his bath, we fed him his rice cereal and formula around 8pm and then put him to bed close to 9pm. He did great! He woke up a couple of times, which he usually does, but he went back to sleep pretty fast after. I think there was just two times I had to get up and give him his binky, which wasn't bad. He woke up around 8am. I'm so proud of him. =)

Trevor sucking his thumb....

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Trevor has started sucking his thumb.

Horsie...

Here is Trevor in the horsie costume =) :

Trevor eating...

Here's some pics of Trevor while eating his rice cereal:

Sugar Cookies...

I made sugar cookies yesterday and today since I've been in the mood for the Lofthouse style sugar cookies, which are the ones you can buy in the store that are covered with thick frosting. They taste so good and are nice, soft and fluffy. They are expensive though. So I searched the web for a recipe that was similar and these are the ones I've tried so far. The ones I made yesterday were good, but the ones I made today I think are better. I like the way they fluffed up. I'm not sure which ones taste more like the Lofthouse cookies since I haven't had them in a while but both recipes made cookies that taste great.

Here are the cookies I made yesterday:

Melt In Your Mouth Sugar Cookies

½ cup butter
½ cup olive oil (I used vegetable oil)
½ cup sugar
½ cup powdered sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups flour

Preheat oven to 375ºF. Cream butter, oil and sugars. Add egg and vanilla. Sift together dry ingredients and add them slowly to the creamed mixture. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. The original recipe said to flatten with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar, but they flatten pretty well on their own, if you want to skip that step. Bake for 10 minutes.

Here are the ones I made today:

Roxymom’s Sugar Cookies

¾ cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla
½ cup heavy cream
2 ¾ cups flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt

Cream butter and sugar, then add egg/cream/vanilla. Then the precombined flour/soda/salt. Form into balls and then flatten slightly before baking. Bake at 350 degrees until ligh brown, approximately 10 minutes. Cool and Frost.

If you want to roll out and cut the dough, you would need to refrigerate first.

Nice Surprise....

My parents surprised us and told us they were coming to see us yesterday. It was a nice surprise since Trevor got to see Lolo and Lola (Grandpa and Grandma). They came yesterday afternoon after they went to Pioneer Place in downtown Portland. We made Panang Curry chicken for dinner and we ended up watching Sunday night football. Today we went to Costco and had lunch at Happy Panda, a chinese restaurant. Here are some pics from their visit:






Here are some pics of daddy and Trevor at Costco....lol:

Trevor rolling from back to tummy

Here's a video showing Trevor rolling from his back to his tummy. He's starting to do this a lot more lately. He's also staying on his tummy a lot longer without crying, which is nice.

Parmesan Chicken...

I was browsing allrecipes.com, looking for a chicken dish to make and decided on this Parmesan Chicken recipe, submitted by: Mollie Hall . It looked easy to make and I already had all the ingredients which was nice. This recipe was great! The chicken tasted yummy and I will definitely make this again. I didn't have seasoned bread crumbs so I seasoned them myself using Emeril's Essence, which we had on our spice rack. But next time I might try baking it. Someone left a review saying they bake it for 30min or so at 375 degrees.
Here's the recipe:

INGREDIENTS:
4 (4 ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1 egg
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

DIRECTIONS:
Flatten chicken to 1/4-in. thickness. In a shallow bowl, combine bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese and basil. In another bowl, beat the egg. Dip chicken into egg, then coat with crumb mixture. In a large skillet, brown chicken in butter and oil over medium heat for 3-5 minutes on each side or until juices run clear.

Cute Pea Pod...

We got some cute costumes from our friends Chuck and Carie when we went to Utah last February. Here is Trevor in a cute pea pod costume. =) We'll save the horse costume for another day...