Busted!

It's naptime at my house...

We had lunch,  I put both kids down for nap, cleaned up a bit then turned on The Martha Stewart Show and sat down on the couch in my quite house with my computer to catch up on all the Mommy Blogs that I follow.  About an hour into my daily routine of reading blogs I got a little hungry for some chocolate.  I went to the pantry and only found Oreo's, I wasn't really feel'n it, so I closed the pantry and sat back down empty handed.  About 5 minutes later I remembered that I had gone shopping yesterday and bought candy for the kids' Easter Baskets.  I had already stashed the candy away in my secret hiding place, so the kids wouldn't stumble upon them.  So, I got up and rummaged through the shopping bag of candy, I grabbed my all time favorite Easter Candy, Cadbury Mini Eggs, my mouth started watering!  You know, the solid milk chocolate candy shaped like eggs with the crisp sugar shell, delicious!  I was thoroughly enjoying my afternoon snack of speckledd little blue, yellow, pink and white eggs until...

BUSTED!!!!!

Little Miss Kate woke up and walked out into the living room, me not even thinking about the eggs. In her sweet little excited 4 year old voice said, "Mom what are those? Where'd you get those Easter Eggs? Why didn't the Easter Bunny hide these for me?" (Kate asked all these questions all in one breath!)  What Easter Eggs? I mumbled with a mouth full of chocolate?"  "These ones," Kate said. as she lifted up the bag (apparently so I could see them a little more clear).  "I thought the Easter Bunny only brought those eggs to our house in our Easter Baskets, how did you get those?"

Oooops, I guess I need to be a little more careful when it comes to the Easter Bunny, Santa or the Toothfairy.  Especially with a 4 year old in the house!

Happy Tuesday!

Cookies, Cookies, Cookies and More Cookies

We love cookies at our house! 

If it was up to Kate we would bake cookies everyday. 

She especially loves to smother the cookies with frosting and add a generous amount of sprinkles.

These are the colors that Kate picked out, it lookes like Easter cookies were made early this year.

She does everything from cracking the eggs to rolling the dough to frosting and sprinkling.  We just need to work on the kitchen clean up.

One of many decorated cookies.

Nick doesn't pass on a cookie offer, YUM-O!  We love soft sugar cookies!

What is your favorite cookie?

Times have changed...

A few days ago the kids and I went to the library for a few hours.  Nick picked out a big board book about first words with matching pictures.  It ended up being a game with both kids on "who could find the picture first" when I said the word.  For example...When I said, "where is the dog?" Kate and Nick would point to the dog as fast as they could, whoever found it first would win.  Most of the time Kate would win, but in this instance she was wrong. 

                                         "Where is the telephone?"

Do you see it? 

It's obvious to us, adults, or should I say if you were born before 1990.  The phone is red, in the middle of the page.  When I asked the kids I got a different answer.  Kate immediately pointed to the small grey rectagle in the monkey's hand.  I said, "nope that's not it", and I soon got corrected, "yes it is!  The monkey is holding his phone, his cell phone."  By gosh, it does look like a cell phone, the only phone that Kate and Nick are aware of.  Man, I feel old.

Mama Patty