Mia's First Baking Experience

When you are determined that your kid is going to eat the same thing her friends are eating, you have to get creative where Mia is concerned! It started with a recipe that was sent by someone in our local support group for a banana muffin recipe that had minimal ingredients. I usually ignore any recipe swaps, even through allergy groups because it's depressing to see great ideas...if you aren't Mia! This one looked promising so I read one of my allergy cookbooks on flour substitutions, then read my sheet on high altitude baking. I made the first batch by myself, after she went to bed. They weren't bad at all! I tweaked the recipe a little more the next day and let her help me. We made enough to take to preschool the next day since we were the parent helpers. All but one kid ate them! Even her teachers seemed to enjoy, or they were being very nice! My only gripe is that they are slightly gritty from the quinoa flour. I could probably do away with it all together and may try using only the rice flour next time.

She loved "stomping" the bananas! Very enthusiastic.

Those little legs needed a boost

She could barely see into the bowl!

Now for the test...

Mikey likes it!

8 out of 10 preschoolers can't be wrong, right? That stat is only because a little girl was not there!

Daddy is back from The Field for a week or so, I don't know when they are going back out again. Mia really misses him when he's away, I'm not sure how she will handle the deployment. I'm fully expecting behavior problems, that seems to be the universal reaction for the kids of deployed parents. She threw another hissy on Friday but it was significantly shorter. Next time, the teachers and I agreed that we'll just do the normal routine to get ready for school and I'll leave, hissy fit or not. She's beginning to see that it gets results.

We spent the weekend trying to knock some things out that have been patiently waiting for our spare time. I managed to get all of her prescriptions from her old compounding pharmacy in Alaska copied and typed up with their appropriate refund form. They swore up and down (and left, right for that matter) that for compounds I'd have to submit a claim on my own. Our new CP tech said she had no idea why they couldn't do it. I thought it was because they didn't cover the meds we needed, but it's possible they were just ignorant. The doctors didn't like dealing with this pharmacy (they always managed to screw something up, and our nurse had to fix it). I did try to submit them before we left, but they were returned because I actually put the wrong birthday. I can't believe I did that. So, this time everything is typed neatly and accurately!

Today is a lazy-ish day, not by choice! We're waiting for one of the workmen from the housing office to come and take a look at our thermostat. Everything else is working, the furnace, the screen on the thermostat... We think it's the switch. We are "scheduled" loosely for the afternoon. The lady on the phone said they would be there somewhere between 12 and 4. Nice, huh?