baking

I was bitten by the baking bug this afternoon and baked two batches of cookies and foccacia bread. I'm not entirely happy with any of it. The chocolate chip cookies are dry and don't have enough sugar, and the sugar cookies are dry and a little heavy. The foccacia bread is a tad overbaked, because it needed a couple more minutes after the timer went off. I foolishly thought I could NOT reset the timer and just remember that the bread was in there. I did remember. Ten minutes later. Oops. So my baking bug is unsated. I was seriously contemplating trying a fourth something - more bread, pizza dough, more cookies. I really wanted to make molasses ginger cookies, but I stopped myself. I think given my trend in baking today I'd be better off not attempting anything else.

In Gavin news, he has discovered yet more sounds. He now raspberries like mad, doing it over and over while he sits and plays. And he sits! Did I mention that? He now sits completely unsupported, for up to ten or fifteen minutes and plays with toys. He can lean to the side or stretch forward to reach a toy and sit back up, all without falling over!