The Pancake Incident

It was a beautiful Saturday morning.  A rare one in that Luke & I got to sleep in together.  Not so rare in that Lexi decided 7:45am was sleeping late enough for us. Since we were awake, I decided to be super wife and make some homemade pancakes.  Not the ones from the box, but real, bonified, homemade pancakes.  I called my mom to verify the recipe:
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1 egg
OK.  Got it.  Simple enough.  How could anyone mess this up?   Although I had flash backs of a year ago when I tried this same recipe (and utterly failed), I figured that I just used a cup of all-purpose flour instead of self-rising.  Lesson learned.  Don't be afraid.  Just try again with the correct kind.  I can do this perfectly in IL so I can master it in CO too.
Here we go.  1 cup milk, 1 cup self-rising flour & 1 egg.  Mix together in my Pampered Chef bowl (yes, because I am a professional) and pour on the pan.
Que problem #1:

Yes, that's right. My pan is crooked.  If you've ever tried to cook runny substances on a crooked pan, you'll know where I'm going with this.  We haven't hit tragedy just yet though  The pancakes ran together a bit, but not so much that I couldn't break them apart after they were cooked.

I still have high hopes for my Saturday morning breakfast and I continue making the pancakes.  All of a sudden

Que problem #2

Smoke starts coming up from the burner and goes everywhere!  In a panic that the smoke alarm would go off, I turned on the stove fan and turned the heat down on the burner. 

Tragedy #2 averted.

My first batch of pancakes get flipped, cooked & plated. 

Que problem #3

Pancakes the thickness of crepes.  I thoroughly enjoy a good crepe every once in a while.  Chocolate, strawberries, whipped cream all wrapped up in a thin shell...perfect!  But pancakes are NOT crepes. 

I put some more flour into my mixture.  It is high alititude right?  As we all know, a little flour will solve any high altitide baking problem.

Tragedy #3 avoided (I hope)

I place my new flour packed mixture onto my crooked pan and started baking again.  OK, OK, I got this.  It seems to be working!  I cooked up the rest of the pancakes (still stinking burning them I might add) and got them ready to serve.

I took them into the bedroom (remember?  super wife=breakfast in bed for her husband)  and we took our first bite of...THE NASTIEST THINGS EVER!  Even with jelly & bananas on them(looked like crepes, might as well treat them as crepes) covering the tast they were still awful!  Luke, somehow didn't mind them, but I couldn't take more than 1 bite.  I ended up giving a little piece to Lexi (dog) and she ate it, but her face didn't look like she was enjoying them.

So...the question is...how do I make HOMEMADE pancakes in CO altitude???? If anyone has advice, I'd appreciate it!

Kicking & Smiling

I've been putting off posting some new stuff because I have nothing to talk about!  My life is in a state of transition, but even that transition is a question mark.  The only newness is Elijah, but I didn't want to be the mom that ONLY blogged about her kid...especially considering he's still negative 4 months old!  But then I had a revelation, this is my blog - deal with it. 
So...
I'm finally feeling some kicking!  I think I've actually been feeling it for a couple weeks now, I just didn't know what it was.  I tell other moms this and they say, "Oh ya, it feels like butterflies right?"  No.  It doesn't.  I don't know if it was because of the sickness blinding me to it or what the deal was, but I never felt the "butterflies."  What I did feel was something like someone taking a q-tip and poking me with it.  That's how tiny the feeling was!  The lady who did the ultrasound asked if I'd been feeling kicking and I said, " I think so, but I'm not sure."  Then she put the little thingy to my tummy and said, "Oh ya, you have.  It's an active little one." 
So there ya go.  My son is saying hi already, genius.  Even my mom has felt him!  I think Luke has too, but he's in the same boat I was and doesn't want to say he has when he was actually feeling the gas in my tummy (No.  I didn't just admit that.). 
I'm very excited to learn his sleeping patterns and little personality!

Your Sex Question...Revealed

It's a boy!!!! 

I was expecting a girl, but hoped for a boy.  When the lady said, "Well, I hope you were hoping for a boy!" We were so surprised!  Elijah Lucas is due for May 24.  We'll see if he comes during his daddy's graduation.
Lexi's overjoyed to be a big sister (Well, not really, I think she's a little jealous right now.  She'll get there though).  Grandma & Grandpa got to come with us to the doctor.  It was so exciting to have them there with us. 
Yay for baby boys!!!!