Saturday At Home

Every week we would try to take the kids outside to see new things and try new food. This week, the weather hasn't been too good. It has been raining for 3 days straight, and then today it is just windy. On top of the weather, Sophie is coming down with something, and her temperature is on the rise. So we stayed home. We decided to make marshmallow stick models. It's so easy and affordable, and most importantly, fun!!! Both kiddos enjoyed eating the marshmallows more than making the models. ^^

All you need are some toothpicks and some marshmallows, then you can let your imagination take over. 

This helps the kids with 3-D concepts. What's great about this activity is that it could get more complicated as the children grow. Maybe in the future we could build a whole marshmallow house with giant marshmallows and bigger, longer sticks.

Hopefully, Sophie will heal in no time.

Whole Wheat Mango Cake

I had a little bit of frozen mango chunks left in the bag, so I thought the kids could do something with them. 

I stumbled upon this recipe  and made a few modifications. The kids really enjoyed making this cake with me as well as eating it after it had came out of the oven. 

Mix 1/4 cup butter with 3/4 cup sugar

Puree about the amount of an actual mango

Add the mango puree into the butter and sugar mixture along with 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla extract and 2 tbsp lemon juice

Next, mix 1 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp baking soda in a separate bowl, then fold it into the wet ingredients.

Chop up about another real mango worth of mango pieces,

and fold them in with everything else.

Grease the baking pan and transfer the batter into it

In about 39 minutes (yes, it was 39 minutes for me and not 40 =P), it was completely done, it smelled heavenly and tasted... well, let's just say the taste was definitely approved by Sophie and Brandon! ^_^