Some Days

Some friends and family have been accusing me of covering my belly in every picture by pulling my kids infront of me. And they want to see my progress. So to them I say, you want a picture of my belly - you got it. A shameless, from below, in my swimsuit, picture of my body at 16 weeks.

In other news, WHY DO THE PICTURES ON THE BOX OF THE EASY BAKE OVEN LOOK SO BLASTED FANTASTIC WHEN REALLY WHAT COMES OUT OF THE OVEN IS A HARD, HALF-BURNED, GROSS TASTING, TINY, REMNANT OF A COOKIE THAT TAKES 10 MINUTES TO BAKE - A SINGLE ONE?!

All I have been hearing from Ashley this week is how much she wants an easy bake oven. Rather than buy one I sent a request out to our neighborhood email group and was offered proabably ten of them to borrow (smartest thing I've done all day). So we ventured to Target this morning to buy a couple food packages and I've honestly never seen Luke and Ashley so into something. They were planning their new bakery game, who was going to make the signs for their shop, who got to cook the food on which days of the weeks.... I just listened.

When we got home all three kids started talking to me at once about how it was supposed to go and what we were supposed to do and what each other was and wasn't supposed to be touching... it was intense.

I put three bowls out and let each one mix something and then explained that we could only bake one thing at a time and each thing takes 10 minutes. That's a really long time if you ask them.

Upon getting the first cookie out Luke went to hold the pan with his fingers and burned them. He was so embarrassed he went to the bathroom to get cold water, but came out in tears. Typical Ashley took one tiny bite of her cookie brick and said she was finished - but then Jake came along and seemed to really enjoy it.

Our third cookie is now baking and we've only been at this for over an hour. Luke's probably done with easy bake cooking for life (now sitting on the couch holding ice on his hand), Ashley's lost interest in the process, and Jake is begging for cookies at a faster rate....

It's been exhausting.

And did I mention that EACH cookie packet is 6.99 at target? So I dropped 14 bucks on the stuff this morning. And now I have the kitchen to clean up.

Summer fun. You really ought to try easy bake.