Charles is 10 months

Charles is now 10 months. His birthday is coming up so fast. I should probably start deciding how to celebrate it.

Charles is still in 9-12 mo. clothes and size 3 diapers.

He graduated to a big boy car seat, since he out grew the height limit of his infant seat. I think he likes his new seat. Sometimes he just really hates being contained.

Charles started crawling on January 16th. He had tried for a few weeks prior to that. He would take like one or two shuffle steps and then give up. He still will army crawl when going long distance or to go fast.

He's been sleeping better. Still wakes up once at night, either around 1 or around 5. He'll take 1-2 naps totaling 2-3 hours.

He eats likes champ. A little garbage disposal. When he's done eating he sign, "All done." I love that he's already picking up signing.

Stop by for his 11 month post for more cuteness.

The dinner I kind of just made up.

I think I shall call this flying by the seat of my pants chicken dinner. lol. I just kind of threw it together last week and it was delicious. After eating it though I did decide on some changes to make it even better.

Chicken:
2 chicken breast
1 c Panko Bread Crumbs
2 Tbs Italian Seasoning
1/8 c Parmesan Cheese
1 c Flour
2 Eggs
2 Tbs Milk

Mix bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese and seasoning together in a bowl. In a separate bowl mix egg and milk together. Place flour in a third bowl. Cover each chicken breast in flour, then dip them in the egg mixture. Then cover in the bread crumb mixture. Melt 2 tbs butter in a frying pan, brown chicken. Place the breaded chicken in a greased 8x8 baking dish.

Sauce:
1/4 c butter
1 garlic clove
1/2 c chicken broth
1/8 c white wine
1/2 heavy cream
1/4 c grated Parmesan cheese
salt and pepper to taste
chopped fresh parsley (as desired)

In a sauce pan melt butter over medium heat. Add garlic. Cook for about 2 min. Stir in chicken broth bring to a boil, then add white wine. Return to a boil. Add heavy cream heat till thickens, stirring often. Remove from heat and stir in Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper and parsley.

Pour sauce over chicken in baking dish and bake on 400 degrees till done (about 20 -30 min. depending on thickness of chicken). Serve over pasta.

New Year

I'm back to my old ways of doing a New Year's post. I missed doing it last year and the year before I did just a condensed version. Now... the post.

Good bye 2015, Hello 2016!

Last year started out rough and it was nice that this year so far has been better. Other then the rough start, we had a fairly good year.

Some highlights from 2015:

• Said good bye to Tracy's brother.
• James turned 5.
• Charles joined the family.
• Trip to Utah and Wyoming
• Tracy completed his first year at University of California-Davis.
• Summer trip to Utah. Epic adventure in Moab.
• James started Kindergarten.
• Tracy attended two conferences nearly back to back.
• Christmas in Southern California.

This year should be pretty good. We're already looking forward to a few things.

• Birthdays! James turning 6 and Charles turning 1.
• Our 10th anniversary.
• Another epic Moab trip
• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference in Salt Lake
• Tracy's qualifying exam for his PhD.  (Though he's probably not looking forward to them.) 

Now my resolutions:

1. First one originally Tracy's idea and it has become a family one. Decluttering and organizing better. Or as he put it Ikea-nising.
2. Doing all steps of laundry in the same day. I seriously have a problem with not completing the whole task. Mainly folding gets neglected, but sometimes I forget to even dry stuff.
3. Read more.

I like to keep them short and simple then I will be more likely to keep them.