I need to take a moment to share with you this cinnamon roll recipe because it is wonderful. Simply wonderful. As a matter of fact it has now been included in our Family Favorite recipe book. Ajax requested them for his birthday breakfast and then devoured three. The recipe is from Pioneer Woman and I highly recommend it!
Here’s the link- http://bit.ly/1N4nMkM
This recipe did make seven pans of rolls so we ended up freezing some and the maple frosting is incredible!
How on earth do I have a 7 year old? Well we do and he is one cool kiddo. This year was his family party so we had the usual suspects over! Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousin! We started this morning with homemade cinnamon rolls per his request. One’s birthday breakfast is a big deal in this home. Usually it involves sprinkle pancakes, but this year Ajax surprised us with cinnamon rolls. I must say they were awesome! As it was his birthday we let him eat as many as he wanted. He finished 3 and Noomi had 2.5. Could not believe it.
Ajax of course asked for a Stars Wars party because that is his favorite thing right now. Legos and Stars Wars, that’s a big part of our conversation these days, lol. Ajax had a great party and didn’t get hardly as embarrassed with everyone sang happy birthday. Thank you everyone! Both kids got light sabers and were thrilled beyond words. Noomi bought Ajax a Darth Vader action figure for Ajax. She went up and down the aisles at the store for the longest time and when she saw the toy, she snatched it up – oh he’ll love this! Well, let’s be honest Noomi loves Vader but Ajax seemed to like it as well.
Last Friday Ajax was in school, I had the day off so of course it was a girls day out. Noomi and I did some errands and shopping in the morning and then, as promised, I took her to get a hair cut. The day before she watched as I cut Ajax’s hair (by that I mean I buzzed it which is the extent of my hair cutting abilities) and she was adamant that I cut her hair as well. I explained that her hair was complicated and we needed to have a professional do it. I told her we needed a hair clean up. So all morning she kept saying we were headed to the clean up people.
She had been talking up a storm, right to the point when she climbed up into the salon chair. Then she stopped talking and dropped her chin to her chest and refused to talk. The guy cutting her hair was very very nice and patient so we kept up a constant stream of chatter. Noomi loved getting her hair cut. She’d sneak a smile every now and then and really did enjoy it. We had it cut to just below her shoulders, though she wanted it shorter.
