Pictures April 6 & 7

Getting ready to go out today


Henry's hair

some tummy time

Henry's Three Weeks Old

Our first outing as a family to a restaurant (3 weeks old)

Daddy & Henry at the restaurant

Three weeks old today

Cheese Danishes

Tuesday Night I made Ina Garten's (Barefoot Contessa) Cheese Danishes. They are very easy to make and very good. I'm really not supposed to be eating any of the ingredients because Henry might have an intolerance to some things (I just found out that day) through what I'm eating, but I already had the ingredients and had planned to make them. They are my grandmother Pease's favorite, so I gave a two to her so there would be less to eat here. I think they taste better at room temperature.

**Easy Cheese Danish**

8 oz cream cheese at room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
2 extra large egg yolks, at room temperature
2 T ricotta cheese
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1/2 - 1 T grated lemon zest (2 lemons)
2 sheets (1 box) frozen puff pastry, defrosted
1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water, for egg wash
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.

Place the cream cheese & sugar in bowl of an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment and cream together on low speed until smooth. With the mixer still on low, add the egg yolks, ricotta, vanilla, salt, and lemon zest and mix until just combined. Don't whip!

Unfold one sheet of pastry onto a lightly floured board and roll it slightly with a floured rolling pin until it's a 10x10 inch square. Cut the sheet into quarters. Place a heaping tablespoon of cheese filling into the middle of each of the 4 squares. Brush the border of each pastry with egg wash and fold two opposite corners to the center, brushing and overlapping the corners of each pastry so they firmly stick together. Brush the top of the pastries with egg wash. Place the pastries on the prepared sheet pan. Repeat with the second sheet of puff pastry and refrigerate the filled Danish for 15 minutes.

Bake the puff pastries for about 20 minutes, rotating the pan once during baking, until puffed and brown. Serve warm.


Makes 8 Danish

First Day of April

Henry's Firsts in Pictures

Henry at his first dr.'s appointment March 31, 2009

Getting ready to go to the Doctor - not very happy

First time in church - very comfy in a sling with mom March 29, 2009

On the way to his first church service

Hanging out with daddy in bed

Henry went to the cleaners for the first time yesterday as well. The customers have been so kind inquiring about Henry and so many of them have even given him gifts. It was nice that a few of them got to see him yesterday. We ran into Scott (the scarecrow on the Halloween blog) and Kelly (his worker and the wicked witch of the west on the Halloween blog). They were so happy to see Henry. As much as I am still adjusting to being a mom and couldn't handle working right now, it made me miss our customers.

I had my two week appointment on Monday and found out that everyone in my Centering Pregnancy class has given birth now. Everyone went into labor before or on their due date. We are having a baby reunion in the middle of April and will post pictures of the babies. Henry was not the smallest because the girl due in mid April got induced the end of March and her baby was only 11 oz smaller than Henry. I'm sure she's glad she got induced if she had almost three weeks to go!

First Dr.'s Appointment

Henry had his first Dr.'s appointment today. He gained a pound since birth and grew an inch. Everything seems to be going well and for that I am very grateful to God.

I am going to write about his birth story soon and post some more pictures.

Henry 2 Weeks Old and Misc Pictures

On Henry's first hike on his two week birthday.





getting ready to go one day

Bath on two week birthday



Getting ready to go on a ride

relaxing


Henry went to his first restaurant at Come Spring Cafe in Union on Friday, March 27 with his mommy, Grammie Sue, great grandparents, and great Aunt Molly. He was very good because he slept through the whole time.

He went to the nursing home with us today for the first time. We didn't go all the way in because one of the nurses said they had a big flu outbreak. We sat in the waiting room off the foyer and Dave brought David out for us to read to him. Then he went to his great Aunt Molly's open house at her new business "The Garage".

Later this afternoon we went on Henry's first hike on the Hope/Rockport townline off Hope Street. We had no idea the snow was going to be so deep. It was quite a challenge.