Just HAD to share this

I think this is my most favourite video of ALL TIME. Joanna Goddard created as part of a contest for mOmma and I'm in love with it. I love giggling and laughing kiddies - who doesn't???

4 Foolproof Ways to Make a Baby Laugh from Son of Shark Pig on Vimeo.

omg I just love it.

thinking about the next nursery

SO.

Big news.

This week we found out we're having a girl! How exciting. Of course they said it's not 100% but hopefully they've got it right because I really want to start thinking about the nursery.

I started a new baby's room board on Pinterest to get me started. Here are my inspirations so far (I only have three pics!):

All the pics I have relate to the colours I'd like to use in the room. I just love this teal colour and see it being one of the main colours with the pops of yellow and orange.

Source: Uploaded by user via Stephanie on Pinterest

Here are some of the colours again:

Source: delightedmomma.com via Stephanie on Pinterest

And I just love these curtains. Originally I liked these colours for the room, but ended up keeping this pic because I'd love to have some fun with the curtains in this striped format. So pretty.

Source: luxuryd3sign.tumblr.com via Stephanie on Pinterest

As you can see, my inspiration pics don't really fall into the typical girly pink options which I don't want, but I can see adding some hot pink in with the blue, yellow, orange and teal.

Can't wait to get started! Only five months to go! :)

Testing and vegging

Just sitting here veggin' on a Friday night testing out my new iphone blogger app.

What a week it has been! Everyone in my house has been sick! I think I had norwalk yesterday yikes! It wasn't pretty.

Anyway, the day before that was super nice and I got to spend some time with Leo at the park. Those few minutes with him there made this week bearable.

Hope you had a great week and have a great weekend! We're hosting a brunch tomorrow for some friends and five million kids. Should be a blast.

healthy spelt banana nut muffins

I've been on a bit of a baking kick over the past two weeks, likely for two reasons: 1. I'm pregnant and want baked goods 2. My past is coming back to me (I was once told by a psychic that I was a baker in a former life, so this reason is making total sense to me!).

Anyway, I had some gross looking black bananas in the freezer, so I put them to good use in some banana muffins.

I like pretty healthy baked goods, so I typed "healthy banana muffins" into Google and this is what I found: Healthy Banana Muffins by DDHMAMA on Spark Recipes. I changed it up a bit. Here's what I did:

Minutes to Prepare: about 15
Minutes to Cook: 20 (my oven is a bit cooler than most)
Number of Servings: I got 12 out of this but DDHMAMA got 20 somehow

Ingredients:
- 2 cups spelt flour
- about 1/8 a cup of agave nectar (I basically squiggled it around the bowl)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- dash or two of pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 cup ground flax seed
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup almond milk
- 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup mashed bananas (2-3 bananas)
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 400

Directions:
- Combine all dry ingredients in one bowl: spelt flour, baking soda and powder, salt, nuts, spices, ground flax
- Beat the egg in a separate bowl. Whisk in milk, applesauce, agave nectar, and vanilla to the eggs.
- Whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Fold bananas in.
- Divide the batter among a greased or paper-lined muffin tin. I used a flowery, silicone Pampered Chef pan which I have to say I really love.
- Bake for about 18-20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Yield:
- Makes 12 muffins

Review
I could have added more agave nectar (these turned out a bit on the slightly blandish side which is fine by me because I can sweeten them up with some apple butter ;)) and the recipe called for molasses which I totally forgot to add. I also think I could have added one more mushy banana. Overall, they're good for me, pretty healthy and I don't feel bad about giving them to the little one.

Happy Monday!

There are a few people in this house that are feeling a bit off. I'm not too bad, but not 100%. I think part of it though is that I'm a bit of a hypochondriac and my husband just came home sick (something he NEVER does, so it must be bad) and now I think I'm getting what he has even though it's likely not the case.

Oh dear.

I'm sure my muffin with apple butter will help everything go away.

Have a great Monday!