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One of our favorite weekend breakfast meals is Eggs Benedict. The trickiest part of the meal is the hollandaise sauce. I use to buy those little packages where you just add butter, but after reading the ingredients, I decided I'd learn to make it from scratch. The surprising thing is how easy it is to make! The ingredients are simple but sometimes the sauce can separate. This recipe is FOOLPROOF! You need: 2 egg yolks (preferably from pastured eggs) 1/8 of Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons of lemon juice 5 tbs of melted butter a dash of hot sauce Makes 4 servings. In a blender , combine everything EXCEPT the butter and blend on high for 5 seconds. Heat the butter in a pan and after it has melted and is good and hot, transfer it to a glass measuring cup. (You can put it in the microwave but I personally don't use the microwave often because I believe it changes the integrity of food .) Turn the blender on high and pour the butter into the egg mixture in a thin, steady stre...

Stats: At 16 months, my guess is that she weighs 22 lbs. She's growing like a weed. 12-18 months clothes. Size 4 diapers when she wears them which is not often anymore because she has been peeing in the potty for 2 weeks!!!! She still wears a disposable diaper at night and cloth diapers when we travel. But they are 90% of the time dry. It's been 10 days since I washed a load of cloth diapers. I had to do them just so they wouldn't stink. Sleeping: Lana is taking 1 naps, usually 2.5-3 hours starting around 11:30am. She is still sleeping through the night although she wakes up around 6:30a. She will usually play in her crib until 7-7:30am before she demands to be attended. Words: She seems to be adding new words all the time but she does use her sign language a lot. She says more, dog, bird, duck, bath, please or "pees," belly or some variation of it. She signs for food, drink, more, outside, potty, please and bath (which also mean pool). Lana took her 1st s...