Sidd still doesn’t say any full words clearly yet at 2 1/2. A bit of a concern and one that will need addressed with his doctor soon. But he loves to laugh and be tickled… non-stop. He could do it for as long as you are willing to entertain him that way. Ari gets tired of it less than half a minute into being tickled, but Sidd eats it up. He’ll come up and ask to be tickled or “bite” which means to bite in a ticklish way. He is daring, climbing up the outside of the stairs and jumping to you when you barely have a hold of him… He loves Thomas the Tank Engine, trains, cars and trucks… he plays a great deal with his Hot Wheels… His laugh is just the funnest thing.

As for me… well, I hit over 100 geocaches found this year, and then just didn’t get out as much as I would like to geocache. I stopped playing WoW, though I did activate a free account that I drop in on once in a grand while since the pre-level 20 stuff is fun sometimes. My present obsession, as should be obvious, is Star Wars: The Old Republic… I am re-reading a few books and reading some new ones (I need to update the Now Reading thingy on the side…). Working 6 days a week at the moment… I need to see a doctor myself for Excessive Daytime Sleepiness it has been at a level of concern for a while, sadly I lost my insurance just a week or two before I was scheduled to see a doctor for a general physical where I was going to raise the concerns about it, so that is on hold for a bit.

Sidd:
Unsure. Basically any toys his age group. He doesn’t have Ari’s focus, so he won’t play with any one thing for very long.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 Cups Brown Sugar
• 1/2 Cup Shortening (I recommend butter flavored stuff… I’ve used butter itself as well, but the recipe says Shortening so I’ll repeat what it says).
• 2 Cups Flower
• 1 Egg
• 1 Cup Sour Milk (to make Sour Milk, pour 1 cup milk into a bowl, add 1 Tablespoon Vinegar and let stand for 5 minutes)
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda

Directions:

In its own small bowl make sour milk mixture. This should give it time enough to sour for use.
Set oven for 350 degrees.
Rub brown sugar, shortening and flower together. End result should be an even crumby mixture. Set aside 3/4 cup of the mixture in separate bowl for topping.
Mix eggs, sour milk, backing soda and and cinnamon together.
Combine the two mixtures (leave the topping bowl to the side) and pour into a 9 x 13 cake pan.
Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes until done. About 10 minutes into the bake, when the cakes has firmed a bit sprinkle the 3/4 cup topping mixture over the cake top and let it finish baking. This delay in adding the topping is my own invention, as originally taught and per the card, we used to do it at the start, but at the start the cake is too wet and the topping just sinks in. Letting it firm up while baking in the over for 5 to 10 minutes lets the topping stay on the top better. Don’t wait too long or the topping won’t cook properly though, 5 to 10 minutes should suffice.
Let cool, cut eat and enjoy.