Beachin' Waffles

For What's Cooking Wednesday we made Beachin' Waffles! These were so fun and so delicious!

When I make waffles I use Betty Crocker's recipe. These are super easy and super delicious. You also need a waffle iron, if you haven't figured that out by now.

First, mix all of the ingredients in the recipe.

Seperate the mixture in to two bowls. In one of the bowls, add blue food coloring. 

Add a little more than half of the regular mixture to the waffle mixture, and fill in the rest of the waffle iron with the blue waffle mix. (See below).

Cook waffles as directed. When finished, garnish with whatever fun beach things you have! I found the mini umbrellas at Hobby Lobby and the gummy sharks at a local toy store. How fun! 

Sea Life Cookies

This week for Takeaway Tuesday and What's Cookin' Wednesday we made Sea Life Cookies! Beau loved this because, duh, cookies!

I was lazy and just bought the remade sugar cookie dough. It was super easy and tasted just as delicious. I rolled it out and let Beau stamp in the cookie cutters.

We had two types of fish and a duck. I know a duck doesn't really go with the whole sea life theme, but it was really cute so we threw it in there.

While we let the cookies cool after baking, I made Royal Icing. Beau put in the food coloring and mixed it up. Then he lathered it on!

After he got tired (which was in about 2 minutes) I finished them off. I secretly enjoy doodling and had a lot of fun decorating these. And they sure were delicious. We ate most of them while watching "Finding Nemo" because we felt that movie was appropriate. 

If you're on a diet or don't want your kids to splurge with so much sugar, consider sharing them with a public worker (mailman, garbage men, etc). Your kids will takeaway that doing nice things for other people is a great way to give back to your community! We will try that next time, but since I'm pregnant and eating for two, I needed the cookies. 

Ocean Scene

For Make It Monday Beau got to watercolor two Under the Sea items that he picked out! He chose a scuba diver and some coral. Don't have watercolors? Use crayons, markers or whatever you have!

After he painted, he got to cut out some green strips of paper to glue on his background.

I helped him cut out the coral and his scuba diver.

This is definitely fridge material!

Beach Time

For Fun Friday, take your littles to a beach! We haven't had a chance to get down there, so I thought I would share our pictures from our trip last year to Port Aransas, Texas. 

With Port Aransas being about four hours away, we rented a beach house with my immediate family and their families. We all had a great time and are going again in a few months. 

I brought my camera stand and we had a beach photo shoot one morning. The sky was gorgeous!

To view the full album, click here.

Color Mixing!

Today for Think About It Thursday we mixed primary colors! This is such a fun activity and it's so easy!

All you need is food coloring, water and six cups! (we used glass cups we already had).

First I let Beau put in food coloring in each cup, starting with red.

Then followed by blue, followed by yellow (not pictured).

Then we used his watering pot to fill the cups up. We only used one color per cup so he knew what color the water would turn.

After that, we put two colors of food coloring in the remaining three cups. We put blue and yellow in one cup, blue and red in another, and red and yellow in the third one. Then, before Beau put the water in, I asked him what color the water would turn.

He had to think about this.

We did this until all the colors were mixed. This is a great activity to expose children to their colors, and what kids doesn't like playing with water?!?!

When we were finished, I let him put some food coloring in a cup of milk, for fun.

He chose green, his favorite color!

I hope you can use this activity with your littles!

Beachin' Marshmallow Pops

Here is what we did for What's Cooking Wednesday! We made Beaching' Marshmallow Pops! 

Beau loves marshmallow pops. Well, actually, he just loves chocolate. And sugar. And marshmallows. I first learned to make marshmallow pops using a recipe from The Pioneer Woman. Instead of melting chocolate bars, HEB sells these wafers, already in a cup, ready to microwave. Beau likes to test it out first to make sure its not poisonous.

Then we add blue food coloring and mix it up.

And then we dip the lollipop sticks in the chocolate and stick them in the marshmallows. While they dry (for about 10 minutes) we make silly faces at the camera and pretend we are fish.

Then we add some brown sugar (for the sand) and plain goldfish crackers.

Then we eat them. Yummy!

Get a Fish

For Takeaway Tuesday we got Beau his very own fish! This was a super big deal for all of us because we have never had one! We let him pick it out, of course, I steered him towards the $5 fisheys. He ending up picking a blue beta fish and named him Captain America.

We got all of the supplies at Petco: a beta fish, a living plant, an aquarium, rocks, a house, beta food and water conditioner. All of it was about $75, but I hope to use it for years to come.

Beau was such a good helper, helping daddy pour the water in.

Captain America sits on our kitchen counter and hopefully can move in to Beau's room when he is a little but older.