Mommy brain

What do you get when a Mommy tries to bake a "Perfect All American Chocolate Butter Cake" with two kiddos in tow?

A "Perfect All American Chocolate Cake" and two sticks of butter sitting on the counter.

Oops.

The first layer came out of the oven and tastes pretty good. It is a little on the sweet side, but exceptionally good considering I forgot a title ingredient and the only fat in the cake is in the egg yolks. Still, I might give it another go tonight once the kids are in bed and I can concentrate better! I plan to decorate this cake (practice for my sister's wedding cake) and take it to a church potluck on Sunday. I'm trying to see if it'll keep a few days - a requirement for a wedding cake!

In other news, John has his first speech therapist appointment tomorrow, but I think he's already made a lot of improvements. When they tested him, his speech included "No", "Da", and "Da-Boo". Now he says "sssshoezzz", "ssseee", "Bye Bye", and appears to be mimicing (or trying to mimic) about 30% of the time. (A problem the speech evaluator noticed was that he didn't care to mimic facial expressions or noises.) We've set up one mirror in the living room that we make faces in and have been doing things like blowing in straws and blowing on food for facial imitation.

John loves Anna! I moved her carseat next to his so we could sit an extra person in the car last week and kept it there because they do so well together (SHOCK SHOCK SHOCK!). He can't quite touch her face yet and hasn't figured out how to do so with his feet (Jane!). He basically holds her hand when she cries and smiles at her to make her laugh. I tried to nap them in the same room today, but that was quite a failure.

We love the stroller and go out a lot. John isn't satisified by walks of less than 90 minutes, and I say the more the merrier. My diastasis seems to be healing better now that Anna is no longer in the front carrier and causing extra stress on those muscles. John also has taken a liking to baths and is getting a long bubble bath about four times a week now.