Alice - Megan comparison

A couple of you have said you think you can see a resemblance between Alice and Megan or have asked if there are similarities.  I decided to look back at the photos of Alice at the age that Megan is now and I'll let you decide for yourselves ;)  These photos are of Alice and Megan at the 2 month stage

Alice

 Megan

Alice

 Megan 

Alice

 Megan

 Alice

 Megan

If you ask my opinion, I'd say there are quite a few similarities ;)  

xx

Megan

Yesterday Megan was two months old. Hasn't that time gone quickly!  Although I think "2 months already!" at the same time it feels like she's always been here.  We are so blessed to have such cute granddaughters and also that we are able to spend so much time with them.  Claire and the girls came and spent the day here yesterday and I was able to get a few photos of Megan at 2 months.

 Megan - very relaxed ;)

 We were getting quite a bit of bubble blowing yesterday

 Big eyes

 Smiles for Mummy :)

 She has the cutest little smiles and both Claire and Alice are often the lucky recipients of them. Megan loves watching Alice as she plays and Claire says her eyes follow her around the room and she smiles at Alice. These girls are already so cute together and I can't wait to watch the bond develop as Megan gets older.

I've skipped the photo of Megan in full screaming mode as she she became hungry and we'll settle for the feeding one instead ;)

Unfortunately, when I popped in to see Claire this morning, Megan wasn't well.  She had her first lot of jabs last week and yesterday her little voice had sounded quite hoarse. Today it was worse and you can just see she's not feeling great.  Poor little love!  Mummy's going to have a tiring day today as each time she put Megan down she'd wake again and her little face would crumple.  Get well soon precious girl <3 nbsp="" p="">xx

Chocolate Oaties

Emily really likes the Cadbury's Brunch Bars that we get here. They're basically an oaty bar with a layer of chocolate on the base.  I was going through magazines, trying to clear them out, when I came across this recipe and thought it would be worth a try.

CHOCOLATE OATIES 

Makes 16

125g  (4oz) butter, plus extra to grease
125g  (4oz) self raising flour
125g  (4oz) light brown soft sugar
125g  (4oz) porridge oats
0.5tsp bicarbonate of soda
1Tbsp golden syrup
125g  (4oz) milk or plain chocolate, melted

Preheat oven to 180C, Gas mark 4 and lightly grease two baking sheets. I used baking parchment instead.
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, oats and soda. Set aside.
In a small pan, melt butter and golden syrup. Add to the dry mixture and combine.
Divide mixture into 16 and squeeze each portion into a ball.
Arrange on the baking sheets, spacing apart, and squash down a little.
Bake for 15 - 18 minutes until golden.
Leave to cool for 3 minutes on the trays, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water (or microwave on full power in a glass bowl for 20 second bursts).
Using a pastry brush, pain half of each biscuit, on the top and bottom, with chocolate.
Alternatively, drizzle the chocolate liberally over biscuits.
Transfer biscuits to a wire rack and allow to set before serving.

Biscuits will keep in an airtight container for up to a week. (However, I doubt they'll last that long - ours were gone within a couple of days!)

If you make this recipe, I hope you enjoy :)

My brother-in-law has just given me a flapjack (crunchie) recipe very similar but which includes coconut and chopped nuts. I'm making that today and will let you know how they turn out.

xx

Project Life post for Norma

I know, I'm not doing very well at keeping up with blogging. I could have done another weekly recap but, to be honest, I've not been very good at taking photos this week as it's been half term and we've been having a relaxing week.  However, Norma has asked me to post my Project Life pages so that's what I'm doing today. It's photo heavy (they all seem to be these days) so don't feel you have to look at all the pages. My PL is being kept very simple this year, photos and a bit of journaling.

Week 1 double page

 Week 1 Left

 Week 1 Right with extra insert

 and without the insert. 

That's how these photos are going to go, pretty self explanatory so I won't repeat for each week. If I've added an insert there will be two photos for the right side.

If you made it all the way through to the end, well done. As you can see, there are going to be lots of photos of our granddaughters in my albums ;o) but I love that because we can look back and see how much they've grown and what they were doing when.

 If anyone wants to know how I've done anything or where I might have picked up digital supplies, leave me a comment and I'll reply to it in the comments section.

Hope you've all had a good week :)  Back to normal for us next week

xx

PS. Clicking on the photos will enlarge them.