Ice Cream.

My three favorite flavors of Haagen-Daz ice cream go as follows:

1. Chocolate Peanut Butter

2. Sticky Toffee Pudding

3. Creme Brulee

This is only important information because I am pregnant and just starting to eat food again (I am considering ice cream food in this situation.) However I am also in a state of prenatal sorrow because my number #2 (sometimes even #1 pick) has been discontinued. Companies should not be allowed to make "limited edition" ice cream. Shame on you Haagen-Daz. Shame on you for letting me down.

yankee pride.

I'll never love baseball.

But I'll always love the Yankees because of you.

TT:Candy

I want to try and make homemade Candy Corns. Just like I saw
here. I love the added faces on the picture. When I took an art class in I high school we had to make art in all of these different styles, my favorite was surreal because I would just add a face on something that doesn't have a face (I'm not very artistic.)

What Would Sasha and Malia Do?

Today I stood in line for five hours at the Health Department (AKA as Mutantville.) It was cold. Directly behind me was not only an angry, talkative mutant but said mutant was smelly too. A triple threat and not in a good way. She was intent on bumping her smelly jelly rolls directly on my behind. She wouldn't give me an inch. I tried to convince her to leave, "No Vaccines for you!" But she stayed. Then I told her where a bagel shop was in hopes she would leave for a while, but she made her daughter go and so I helped her move her American flag printed, folding chairs every few minutes until she returned.

I was so happy when my non-mutanty, non-smelly Aunt Jean told me to come move up in line with her so I did. Although I had managed to pack many snacks, hand sanitizers, activities and drinks for the girls I forgot my double stroller and so they played with rocks in the parking structure instead. Needless to say parking structures are filthy. We had a layer of hobo dust on us by the time we were done. It's okay all of my winter clothes are packed into storage and I kind of already looked like a pirate.

At one point in time a woman from the Health Department came around collecting pregnant ladies. She asked me when I was due as she collected the others. I assumed she was a member of Obama's Death Squad and did not go with her.

The girls had no idea what they were waiting in line for. I brought my Mom for reinforcements. Because I couldn't have another "THEY'RE SHOOTING MY SISTER!!!!" episode like the last time they got immunized. In an attempt to force them into bravery they were promised a trip to Build-a-Bear afterward. The good news is we all got immunized, the bad news is we have to go back in 30 days for a booster shot.

Next time I'll remember the stroller (and some Mutant Spray.)

Oh Russia! You didn't!

Please read this story.

Now don't get me wrong, it's sad somebody died. But honestly didn't that seem kind of inevitable? Is there any other way a show titled "Bears on Ice"could end? I admit bears on ice skates is something I would love to see. But even if circus performing was my thing I think I would pass on training any kind of carnivore to ice skate.

I have a hard time seeing this happening in the United States. Maybe but it seems a little too cruel, PETA would be all over that. However I wonder if ice skating wildlife is a common practice in Russia? If so I may reconsider my previous vow to never visit there.

Turtle Power!

This last week Ruby has been praying for us to be an eternal family. Scarlett misunderstood and believed we were trying to become a turtle family. She's, understandably, a little disappointed.

"But you don't have to take my word for it! "

Last week we picked out a new Halloween book at the book fair. And it such a cute book. I love it. It's called Ghosts in the House! by Kazuno Kahara. The whole book is illustrated in only black, orange, and white. The story is cute and the book could easily double as a Halloween decoration because of the color palate.

It looks like the author has a new book coming out at the end of October called I'm Jack Frost I'm really excited. I think I'm eventually going to get it for the girls. Jack Frost comes to our house on New Year's Eve to refill our Christmas stockings with goodies for the New Year. I hope that a similar style of illustration is used through out this new book.

I love well done children's books. There are so many good ones out there. Ruby likes the elephant and piggie books (especially I am Invited to a Party!) I also really like Sandra Boynton's Books. When the girls were babies I read them The Going to Bed Book every night. So many of my board books are hashed. They've been carted around, chewed on and colored in. But I like my books to be scruffy, it makes me feel like they've been loved.