Triple Peanut Butter Chocolate Pudding Bars

I have two countdowns going on right now.  One that makes me happy and one that makes me sad.  One is Christmas.  I have the countdown app on my phone and it is just makes me giddy about all the fun things that will happen in the next 44 days.    The sad countdown is the back to work date. Not that I dislike work I just love my little pumpkin and this last year has been a blast.

Since I am down to my last couple months of mat leave.  The little one and I signed up for a few mom and baby classes, swimming and baby picasso.   Both are lots of fun and both expend a lot of energy which make for some great post naps.

This was the first year in many I did not go to the store after Halloween and buy 50% off candy.   I did however have a little bit of candy left over.  I managed to hide this from the hubby as well since we was preoccupied by the small amount he got from taking out the little one. (Who for the record cannot even say trick or treat)  For some reason left over candy always tastes better when it is baked in something so I opened all the little packages, chopped them up and through them in these delicious Triple Peanut Butter Chocolate Pudding Bars

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Today was a big day in the Sweet Twist of Blogging household.  The little one moved out of the bucket baby sit and into a big girl car seat.   Yep, that is a big day in my life.   The cliche of time flies is sad and true.  We did run into a bit of a stumble though.  Since the seat needs to be rear facing, it is on a special angle and pretty much makes it impossible for anyone to sit in front of it.  Who makes these chairs?  So after spending a couple hundred on a car seat, we had to spend more money to get this special angle adjuster to give us 4 extra inches of chair room so someone could sit in the front seat.   Seriously?  You add a wedge to tilt it back and then another one to tilt it forward?  Other then that, the chair is great.

With moving to the big girl seat I also get to test out my skills on the "sleeping transfer"  I can no longer just let her sleep in the car seat when I get home.  Pretty sure leaving her in the car would be frowned upon.  (Please sense my sarcasm!!)   So, of course on Day 1 in the new seat she falls asleep 10 minutes from the house.   So I slowly unbuckled the legs, then gently unbuckled the chest strap, softly pulling out the right arm, softly pulling out the left.   I leaned in, slowly moved her head on to my chest and then gently scooped her little body.  One eye peaked open, sshh sshh.  Closed. Phew.  Slowly walking from the car to the house, one eye peaked open, sshh, sshh, closed, phew.  I seriously though about just sitting on the couch with her cuddled in my arms and do nothing for an hour.  Before I know it those days will be long gone but I decided to be good and let her have a proper crib nap.  I went upstairs and did a successful crib transfer.  Sweet!