Monday

[mellybrelly]

I really want cheese today. I want a giant cheese ball, and string cheese and slices of cheddar and brie with garlic and crackers and a cheese fountain, a big delicious cheese fountain. Probably because there's cheese in the door of the fridge right now... Tim and Reagan had grilled cheese sandwiches yesterday. I really hope he grows out of this dairy allergy.

I tried fixing the faces of two of our drawers in the kitchen. One worked, one didn't. We need longer screws or more screws. Whoever did this kitchen made a lot of stupid mistakes. It was done fast, a flip house.

I'm back to cloth with Paxton. I rarely go downstairs now that we have our Christmas tree up. I spend most the day upstairs playing with Paxton, listening to Christmas music, tidying, etc. Before I'd be downstairs where the tv is mostly. Today I went down and got a bunch of diaper stuff, since I keep them there, so that helped.

Making a teriyaki chicken dish in the crock pot, which I forgot to turn on for about an hour this afternoon. Veggies are prepped, rice needs to be cooked. I wanted to make ginger cookies this afternoon, but no molasses, need to run to the store later Tim is picking some up. Maybe I'll make some lactation cookies now.

Our gingerbread house:


more pictures

Where does daddy start and Paxton end?? :P


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Comments

[juel1979.livejournal.com]

LOL They almost match! I've always wanted to do a gingerbread house, but never acutally broke down and did one. Mostly cause every time I see them, it involves gumdrops and gumdrops are unholy. LOL

I've been wondering if lactaid would help or can you not take it while BF? I mean if you break down the lactase before it gets to him or something. I'm guessing not. I drink lactose free milk, but that's about the length I go right now (still have ice cream and cheese and do generally fine while preggo). I could also go for a MASSIVE sharp cheddar cheese ball and some Ritz or something, but I've not seen one that says pasteurized. =(

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

Tim LOVES his striped sweaters, which is why I bought that outfit for Pax.. it was too perfect. :P

The sad thing is that it isn't the lactose that he's allergic too, or that would be way easier. It's actually the dairy protein. I ate cheese every day through my pregnancy and was fine, it's just him having it through my breastmilk, but you might be fine!

I love the gingerbread house! I buy a bunch of my own candy though.

[viridescence13]

I can't see the other photos. =(

I hope Paxton grows out of the dairy allergy too. I love dairy. But hey, it's only a year out of your life without dairy (or however long you choose to BF) and I am sure you'll never regret it.

Cute gingerbread house! I've never made one and always wanted to. Maybe when Emilie is old enough to help. Reagan and Paxton are lucky to have you! I love that photo too, they definitely are matchy-matchy.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

oh boo, are you on facebook? I'm Melanie Moncrieff Ells on there if you want to add. You don't have to though, if you prefer to stay private.

It is only a year or two, depending!

I love making these kinds of things with R, can't wait till Pax can join in!

[viridescence13]

Nah, I get good vibes from you. =)

I can't wait for all of the fun things I'll do with Emilie.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

see if they work for you now, I added an extra something at the end of the link by accident.

[xfoundinabottle.livejournal.com]

I had grilled cheese with a vegan soy cheese over the weekend. It was amazing.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I have to check out the vegan soy cheese, most the soy cheese still has dairy in it. It's so expensive here though, I don't want to buy it and hate it!

[xfoundinabottle.livejournal.com]

I had this one:



If you do find it, do yourself a favour, don't try it as is. I tried a piece and it was revolting. Then I put it between some whole wheat bread and grilled and it was delicious.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The only one I've seen was grated, I'll check the brand.

[pyxiwulf.livejournal.com]

I love those houses!!! The girls and I did Halloween ones a couple years ago and it was so fun. Someday I'm going to fulfill my dreams of being a wannabe Food Network Challenge pastry chef :D

Tim looks like such a prep!

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

That is such a fun idea, halloween houses!!!

Tim is such a prep. hahaha

[failureface.livejournal.com]

You never pass up a chance to make fun of my awesome sweaters, do you? Those stripes have "bad-ass" written all over them.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Good job on the gingerbread house!

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

PS: It took about 7 months for Delia to get over her dairy allergy. I stuck with small amounts at first and too much could still make her gassier, but not like it was before. She does fine with it now.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

good! I'm hoping I can eat some as time goes by.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

thank you! It was a ton of fun.

[kastinkerbell.livejournal.com]

I have heard INCREDIBLE things about this cheese: http://www.daiyafoods.com/
It's a bit pricey, but you could have pizza. They have a store locator on their site, but it seems that Whole Foods is a good bet.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I saw that at Wegmans!! I'll buy some. Awesome.

[kaleidoscopeeye.livejournal.com]

Loved all of the photos :)

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[popchex.livejournal.com]

Oh I've had those cheese days. Mostly involving brie. haha

So funny about the chicken - I was TOTALLY going to make teriyaki chicken for dinner - and make extra so I can make "Sea scrolls" for Ben...but I realised I didn't have some of the ingredients for that, but had stuff to make salsa chicken, so I did that instead. :)

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

mmm cheese

That is funny, great minds and all... :D

I love how I captured Paxton about to lunge onto Tim's finger like a dog.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Nice gingerbread house! I've always wanted to make one but mostly so I could eat all the candy that they seem to involve :)

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

The candy is a definite perk.

[queen-elvis.livejournal.com]

I really like your stripey men picture!

Isn't it annoying how you want something as soon as you know you can't have it? I go on diets and suddenly I care soooo much more about junk food than before.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of surprised I haven't had worse cravings for it, since I've been off of it the last 2 and a bit months!

[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a good cheese substitute for you.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

baby, you give me all the cheese I need

[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

I do not give your child weird poops!

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

yes you did, jerk

[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

Look, I'm an artist. If anything, the poops were eccentric, not weird.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I knew it was you

[leahmiriam.livejournal.com]

Yum. I so want a gum drop right now.

[raenstorm.livejournal.com]

Paxton looks like he's trying to figure that out himself! Haha. Cute.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

hahah, I think he was in the middle of a lunge for Tim's knuckle. :P