The minute I saw it, I knew I just had to be a copy cat!  So, even though Gretchen is our Kitchen of the Month for this October and I know I should really rave on and on about what a really wacky group this is and how you (or at least I can’t) simply never can anticipate what bread is coming out of the oven and how we’ve traveled to Peru this month, you really have to go check out Monique’s baby in diapers.

Now, you understand Fancy Pants!  I’ll call this the tuxedo of diapers since that is a napkin my Dad brought back for my Mom from Madera.

A little over two weeks ago while we were in Seattle Cookie Baker Lynn and I got to gather and made babies too.

We had more than just a few laughs with answering her husbands question of “What are you baking now?”  with “We’re making Babies”!!

And boy did we make babies!  Can you tell it’s a camel?  Well, Gorn and our son could.   Gorn & I thought this guy a little dry but

Son & Wife enjoyed it starting with the head.

By morning there was only the small front leg left ...

We made a fish which I tried to color coordinate.  Which the boys in our Portland son’s house enjoyed ...

Along with the gun toting Bandolina Baby.

This is Lynn’s photo of the above two, much better than mine ... she’s had lessons from a real photographer!

But a diaper ... now how much more baby can you get.  To do this guy I used a large cast aluminum ginger bread mold - lots of us thought the flavor of this was reminiscent of ginger bread though it has no ginger in it.  The flavor is good, like the holidays.

This was really an adventurous bread baking making babies Gretchen, thank you!

Want to be a buddy for this month, check out Gretchen’s site for how and the date.  We’d love to have you join in with us.

Last month Karen was Kitchen of the Month and I was really disappointed not to make the Steamed rolls with everybody.  Well, I did them last night and I really will be excited to try them again.

I’m all ready now with my fancy bamboo steamer - somethings in life are not expensive.

I wasn’t overly taken with my filling this time but I can see the promise.

Thank you Karen.

Many times we refer to life as a journey.  Life takes us on surprising twists and turns.  Some turns are lovely to make ... for instance when there are two more grand babies on the way!  Other turns are more difficult to make ... now is a difficult turn although not without some beautiful moments of discovery.  Today Gorn and I are traveling to Houston’s MD Anderson to begin another turn in our journey together ... I hope you’ll forgive my quiet. We’ll basically be living in Houston until sometime in January. 

If I have a goal here, it’s to keep up with the Bread Baking Babe’s monthly bread baking and we’ll see what else can be managed.  Thank you all for your kind thoughts and letters.  Know that you are missed.