It all started with a phone call from my neighbor who needed a quarter cup of sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla... she's making cookies for some sort of back to school deal and is out of a couple of ingredients... anyway, ashleigh overhears what is going on and pipes up by saying she'd like to make cookies...
okay fine...
well, this all is going down during dinner... a dinner which i have yet to have a bite of as i'm taking care of ashleigh & ryan on my own tonight and i tell ya it ain't easy doing this alone...
so, with ryan strapped into his high chair playing gleefully with his spoon, cup and teething toy, ashleigh and i begin our snickerdoodle cookie adventure...
basically, this little girl is all about 2 things in terms of cookie making... 1) dumping the ingredients into the bowl and 2) licking anything coated in uncooked cookie dough... nice.
so, after completely turning our counter into a crazy flour/cinnamon/sugar/butter plaster, we make about 3 dozen cookies... did i happen to mention the little girl helped during the rolling part? this translates into we now have a small nearly 3 year old covered in dough... sweet. this means bathtime will be our destination shortly. although now the chair she is standing on is covered too... so i go to wipe off the chair and oh my goodness! our chairs are dirty... like really dirty... i never knew they were this dirty! meh.
and by now the little boy has started chirping up and desiring to be unleashed from his seat... no problem until we get to cleaning up the mess and he wants to stand up in front of the dishwasher...
well, the cookies are done and although they are a glob of cookies due to the fact they are being baked way too close together, they are good and sweet and remind me of my childhood. good times.
off to the bath we go!
have you ever tried to get 2 children under 3 to bed by yourself? i think this is a task harder than the AP Calculus I took in high school... once you get one settled, the other starts to cry... i started this endeavor around 8ish and finished around 8:40... ugh. i did get quite a few kisses from lil' miss and smiley boy cuddled up on my shoulder... now that's a fine end to the day.
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steve irwin and his crikey shows kept dave and i sane during those first few months of newborn-ness when ashleigh was born... when he and i would take turns rocking her we would watch animal planet at 2 am in the morning... give or take a few hours... he took our minds off the lack of sleep for a moment or two... Godspeed Crocodile Hunter... rest in peace.
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Did anyone give MTV the memo that in order to have a show handing out awards for videos you have to actually play videos? They actually gave out an award to someone who made an effin' ringtone? Yes, you read that right... a ringtone... a stupid friggin' ringtone...
This was the first time I never felt anything from the show... usually I get jazzed about one or two of the performers but wow! i hardly cared for anyone... except the jack white deal on the side... that was cool... he's pretty cool... and those guys who did that ridiculous dance on the treadmills... talk about a gimmick... holy sh!t that was nuts!
Oh and is Johnny Knoxville back with the Jackass guys? Does anyone know?
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