I used to make trail mix snack bags for Asher once a week. Now that I am a mom of 2 I am still getting down a routine. I have the basic day to day routine down, but now I need to add in more things I used to do.

Anyways, I had sometime over the weekend during naptime and made Asher a new snack mix with items I already had in the kitchen. 

Once Asher woke up these did not last long at all! Pretty sure he ate 2 bags a day!

I love Annie's Brand! They have so many Organic items. Mac-N-Cheese, Fruit Snacks, Cheddar Bunnies & Graham Bunnies, just to name Asher's favorites!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Cup Bunny Grahams
• 1/2 Cup Multi-Grain Cheerios
• 1/2 Cup M&M's
• 1/2 Cup Raisins
• 1/2 Cup Mini Marshmellows

Place them all together in a bowl & mix. Portion out into snack baggies!
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New flavors!! 

These are very summery!

I love the Oatmeal ones for in the mornings. Sometimes Asher will have 1 or 2 pouches for breakfast. These actually fill him up. Breakfast in a squeeze pouch!

I only post my most successful flavors. Some of the flavors I make up are not a hit at all. Which is okay! Asher is such a picky eater, so if he likes them, they have to be good!

Out of this batch orange creamsicle is his favorite. He is unsure of the banana coconut. He grabs it out of his drawer, eats half, and then wants to put in back in the drawer. 

Mango Coconut:

• 2 mangos
• 1/4 cup pineapple juice
• 1/4 cup coconut milk
• 1/2 cup yogurt

Directions:

1. Peel mango & cut into chunks
2. Add all ingredietns to blender
3. Blend until smooth
4. Pour into squeeze station

Strawberry Peach Oatmeal:

• 1/2 cup strawberries
• 1/2 cup peaches
• 1/2 cup oatmeal
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Peel peaches & take out seed. Cut into chunks
2. Make oatmeal according to package directions. Let cool
3. Add all ingredients to blender
4. Blend until smooth. (you may need to add more milk if the consistancy is really thick)
5. Pour into squeeze station

Orange Creamsicle:

• 1 orange
• 1 banana
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Peel orange
2. Add all ingredients to blender
3. Blend until smooth
4. Pour into squeeze station

Pina Colada:

• 1 banana
• 1 cup pineapple
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1/2 cup spinach

Directions:

1. Cut up your pineapple
2. Add all ingredients to blender
3. Blend until smooth
4. Pour into squeeze station

Melon Madness:

• 1 banana
• 1 cup melon
• 1/2 cup pineapple
• 1/2 cup yogurt

Directions:

1. Cut up all your fruit
2. Add all ingredients to blender
3. Blend until Smooth
4. Pour into squeeze station

Blueberry Banana:

• 1/2 cup blueberries
• 1 banana
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1/4 cup spinach

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients to blender
2. Blend until smooth
3. Pour into squeeze station

Strawberry Mango:

• 1 cup apple juice
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1 cup strawberries
• 2 cups mango

Directions:

1. Peel & cut up mango
2. Cut tops off strawberries
3. Add all ingredients to blender
4. Blend until smooth
5. Pour into squeeze station

So many great flavors!

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Lately I feel like super woman. We all have been adjusting to our new life from being a family of 3, to now a family of 4. And I have to tute my own horn, I'm rocking it! I have been utilizing nap time and have been able to keep up with our snack boxes and Asher's squeeze pouches. 

I recently just ordered more squeeze pouches and went to town making a bunch. 

Some of these recipes are repeats and some are new. I tend to repeat at least 1 or 2 because that means it is currently Asher's favorite. He is so stuck on the Peanut butter Banana right now. I even gave him his own drawer in the fridge. He loves it, He now goes to the fridge and tries to pull the door open while saying "pouch". This way with his own drawer he can pick out which flavor he wants. 

Peanut Butter Banana: ( Asher's favorite)

• 2 bananas
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Place all ingredients in the blender
2. Blend until smooth

Vanilla Pear:

• 2 pears
• 1 banana
• 1 cup vanilla yogurt
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. Peel and decore the pears
2. Boil pears on the stove until tender
3. Place all ingredients in the blender
4. Blend until smooth

Mixed Berry Oatmeal:

• 1/2 cup oatmeal
• 2 cups mixed berries (raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries)
• 1 cup yogurt
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Make oatmeal according to package; allow to cool
2. Place all ingredients in the blender
3. Blend until smooth

Cinnamon Sugar Peach: ( I typically don't add sugar to anything I make fore Asher. He does not need the extra sugar & my goal is to provide a nutritious squeeze pouch. But this is his sweet treat. When I was younger my mom used to cut me up peaches and add cinnamon sugar to them. They were so delicious and I wanted to share that with Asher.)

• 2 peaches
• 1 cup yogurt
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp sugar

Directions:

1. Remove skin from peaches and seed
2. Place all ingredients in the blender
3. Blend until smooth

As always I used my infantino squeeze station. Seriously LOVE this!! I am going to have to start stocking up on squeeze pouches. I will soon have to be making double!

Don't forget these are freezer friendly!!

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I typically like to provide Asher with a nutritious meal. He can be a very picky eater and 75% of the time does not eat what I cook for dinner. I usually have to make him something else (which I swore I would never do), but sometimes it's not worth arguing with a 23 Month old.

Who else remembers their parents giving them "pigs in a blanket" as a child? This meal consisted of hot dog and cheese rolled up in bread and baked in the oven. As a kid I loved it! 

For some reason Asher does love hot dogs. I feel alot of children do. I know hot dogs are not the best and maybe next time I will look into turkey dogs. Anyone ever use them?

It was one of those days that I knew Asher would not eat what I made for dinner and honestly I didn't feel like enduring the toddler meltdown. So mommy got creative! Here's my spin on the childhood 'Pigs in a blanket"

Ingredients:

• Crescent dough
• Hot dogs
• Velveeta slices

Directions:

1. Unroll your crescent dough
2. Lay cheese slices
3. Place hot dog
4. Roll up
5. Cut slits in top
6. Bake at 375 Degrees for 8 minutes or until dough is completely done and hot dog in warm.

Super quick and super easy!

I seem to always have crescent dough sheets on hand, which is nice for a quick kids dinner!

A Minnie themed birthday party can be so much fun! First of all I love pink, so the more pink the better! Here are some ideas for your child's Minnie Themed Birthday Party.

My best friend's daughter is turning 2! Her theme for the party is Minnie Mouse. Her decorations are so adorable! We typically work together on activities for our kiddos or anything in the kitchen. She told me her ideas for the party and from there we had to brainstorm of how to actually make them.

Honestly we went in blindly and had a few trial and errors, but these turned out adorable and taste delicious! She had bought 2 different cookie cutters. The Minnie head has a bow on it but for some reason when it baked you could not see the bow. It actually worked in our favor because we could use the same cookie cutter and make Mickey as well.

#2 Cookies:

Ingredients:

• Pillsbury pre-made cookie dough
• Pillsbury Vanilla frosting in white & hot pink

Other items you need are: #2 cookie cutter, rolling pin, decorating tip & bag

Directions:

1. Roll out your pre-made cookie dough
2. Cut out #2 with cookie cutter
3. Bake for about 7 minutes
4. Allow to cool
5. Once cooled use a spatcula and apply white frosting just on the 2 part
6. Using your decorating bag & tip, outline the bow and fill in with hot pink frosting
7. Outline the white frosting with your decorating tip & bag

Minnie & Mickey Cookies:

Ingredients:

• Pillsbury pre-made cookie dough
• Pillsbury vanilla frosting
• Melting chocolates
• Red food coloring
• Hot pink Sprinkles

Other items you need are: Minnie cookie cutter, rolling pin, decorating tip & bag

Directions:

1. Roll out your pre-made cookie dough
2. Cut out Minnie shapes with cookie cutter
3. Bake for about 7 minutes
4. Allow to cool
5. Melt your melting chocolate according to the package
6. Dip ears in melting chocolate
7. Use a spatula and apply white frosting just on the bottom part that is not covered in chocolate
8. Put some frosting in a small bowl and add red food coloring
9. Use a spatula and apply red frosting just on the bottom part of the Mickey cookies that are not covered in chocolate
10. Add sprinkles to Minnie Cookies​

So my mom used to be a baker! She used to make wedding cakes when I was younger. So when the bestie says she need's Minnie cupcakes & a Minnie cake, my mom was just the one for the task! My mom baked all the cupcakes and cake. She assembled the cake and did all the icing. I added the Minnie ears and bow!

My mom's recipes are top secret for the cupcake, cake flavors, and icing. Even I don't know the recipe for the cupcake flavors. I will not be sharing those, but she did make  vanilla and chocolate.

Cupcakes:

• Mini Oreos
• Pink melting Chocolate
• Bow mold

Directions:

1. First make yours cupcakes
2. Once cooled apply your pink icing
3. Add 2 mini oreos
4. Melt your pink chocolates; pour into bow mold; freeze until frozen; pop out of mold; place in between oreos
5. Use white icing to make the dots

Minnie Cake:

• 6 inch cake
• 4 cupcakes
• Icing

Directions:

1. Make your cake
2. Use left over cupcakes and cut them in half
3. Stack 2 cupcake havles on top of one another to make the ears
4. Do a base layer of icing over everything
5. Make rosettes
6. Finishing touch was my mom hand drew the white bow

Lastly my husband made a wooden #2. My bestie painted it and turned it into a Minnie! When our kiddos turned 1 he also made wooden 1's. I play to post them at a later date. He will probably end up making them a number every year.

DIY Wood #2:

• 1/2 inch plywood
• Jigsaw
• Palm sander
• 2 screws
• Drill
• Ribbon
• Black craft foam

Directions:

1. My husband is actually pretty crafty; he hand drew the 2
2. Use the jigsaw to cut out the 2
3. Sand it all down
4. Cut out a triangle
5. Use the drill & screws to secure the triangle to the bottom to make a support so the #2 stands on it's own
6. Paint the 2
7. Make a bow and hot glue it
8. Cut out circles for ears on the foam and attach

I hope you enjoyed this post! Her birthday party was so adorable! 

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I was unsure how this would turn out, but it is taste tester approved!! Asher love, love, loves this flavor! Wish I would of thought of it sooner.

Asher has always been a huge fan of Blueberry Baked Oatmeal. So why not make it into a smoothie pouch for him!? Great for on the go breakfast when we are rushing out the door.

Again I used my Infantino Squeeze Station. Which I absolutely love! I did not always have this squeeze station and it made the process more difficult.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Cup Oatmeal
• 1 TBSP Brown Sugar
• 1 1/2 Cups Yogurt
• 1 Pint Blueberries
• 1/2 Cup Milk

Directions:

1. Make oatmeal according to package. Let cool
   
2. Wash blueberries
   
3. Once oatmeal is cooled add all ingredients to blender
   
4. Blend until smooth
   
5. Pour into your squeeze station!
   
6. ​Pouches can be frozen
   

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I have really been slacking with coming up with new flavors! I typically like to do 3 new flavors at a time, but life has been crazy and Asher is really loving his peanut butter banana smoothie flavor. So I made another round of that and this peach-pear smoothie, which he is enjoying as well!

Ingredients:

• 1 peach
• 2 pears
• 1 cup vanilla yogurt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 tsp chia seeds
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. Peel and decore peach and pears
2. Place fruit in saucepan with water and boil on the stove until tender
3. Add all ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth
4. Pore into your squeeze pouches!

I absolutely LOVE my infantino sqeeuze station! I wish I would have got one when Asher was smaller and I used to make him baby food. I plan on using this for Aubriella and making her baby food in these.

This station is so easy to use and easy to clean. The only thing that I am not a huge fan about, is how the squeeze pouches are not reusable. But their size and top is exactly like the store bought ones. Which Asher loves the tops to the store bought ones for some reason. I've tried 3 different squeeze pouches. When he was smaller he didn't mind the Kiinde brand, but now he only like the Infantino ones.
Here is the link to my post with the Peanut Butter Banana smoothie recipe if you haven't checked it out yet!

Where you can purchase these products:

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It appears Asher is teething again. He is a super picky eater to begin with. It is even worse when his little mouth is hurting. 2 things I can always get my child to eat. Yogurt & Fruit. 

Asher stopped taking interest in the other squeeze pouches I used to make him. I couldn't figure out why. He used to love them! I used Kiinde brand. Finally it dawned on me, the top wasnt the same as the store bought squeeze pouches. 

Randomly out of the blue one of my best friends had texted me asking if I had bought the Infantino squeeze station yet. I hadn't but have been wanting to try it. 3 days later there was an Amazon package at my front door. There is was! My squeeze station! All thanks to one of my best friends.

Needless to say I have had huge success! Not only does Asher love these squeeze pouches because they are like the store bought ones, but I absolutely love my squeeze station! So easy to use and I feel like it makes the whole process of making these so much quicker! I highly recommend it. They also have a spoon attachment that I cant wait to use!
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Smoothie Squeeze Pouches

Peanut Butter Banana: ( Asher's favorite)

• 2 bananas
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Place all ingredients in the blender
2. Blend until smooth

Vanilla Pear:

• 2 pears
• 1 banana
• 1 cup vanilla yogurt
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. Peel and decore the pears
2. Boil pears on the stove until tender
3. Place all ingredients in the blender
4. Blend until smooth

I made about 25 of these. I place them all in the freezer and pull out as needed! Also with them being frozen I can take them in the diaper bag and they will defrost throughout the day and are typically defrosted enough when Asher is ready for one!

Here are the links to where you can purchase these exact products!

I'm pretty sure I say it everytime I make Asher trail mix's.... but I'll say it again, I love making these! Super easy and so convenient to have on hand! I do one for each holiday. Asher loves them as well. So here's out Easter trail mix!

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup of Mini Marshmellows
• 1 Cup of Annie's Cheddar Bunnies
• 1 Cup of M&Ms
• 1 Cup of Annie's Graham Bunnies

I use alot of Annie's products! I love that they are organic! Also there food is delicious! They have so many products. I am literally obsessed with Annie's brand.

Directions:
Mix all together. Place in snack baggies!

Great to throw in the diapar bag and on the go!

Since the Oatmeal breakfast bites were a big hit, I figured why couldn't I make pancake bites as well? These turned out to be a big hit as well! As I have said before I love being able to make a big batch of something and freeze a majority of them. I just pull out of the freezer and place into the fridge when I want to use them. You can keep food items frozen for quite some time!

Ingredients:
2 Cups Flour
2 TBSP Sugar
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
Salt
1 3/4 Cup Buttermilk
2 Eggs
3 TBSP Butter ; Melted

Add In's:
Blueberries
Chocolate Chips
Maple Syrup

Directions:

• Whisk together all ingredients
• Pour into mini muffin tin
• Add the Add In's
• Bake at 400 for 12 mins

These are also freezer friendly!

The other day I really wanted to make pancake bites for Asher but did not have alot of time. Here is a quick recipe if you don't have time to make them from scratch! They honestly are just as good!

Ingredients:
2 Cups Aunt Jemima Pancake mix
1 Cup Water
1/2 Cup Milk
1 tsp Vanilla
1 TBSP Sugar

Directions:

• Mix all ingredients together
• Pour into mini muffin tin
• Add the Add In's
• Bake at 400 for 12 mins