May the best [regionally themed] breakfast win!

Tomorrow at work there is a breakfast cook-off competition where the winner gets a free vacation day...I'm game!  As part of a bigger effort within my group, I was assigned an Italy themed breakfast.  Wait, what?!  I'm pretty sure Italians just have espresso and cigarillos for breakfast!  Time to get creative...

I started trying to dream up some sort of breakfast pizza then remembered my friend Chelsea and her mom Lisa make this really great fruit pizza.  Not exactly breakfast but I'm playing for a day off and I'll take my cheap shots where I can!

Yes, this IS a sugar cookie crust!

Note to self and others, use a cookie sheet with edges for the love!  I thought this would help my presentation and I ended up with burnt cookie in the bottom of my oven!

 The final product!  Wish me luck!

Little talks

Some of my most precious moments with Cooper are on our rides home from school. Today's conversation went something like this:

(As I'm buckling him into the car...)

Cooper: Mama! It's Tuesday!

Me: Yes! What did you do at school today?

C: [silence]

Me: Did you eat your lunch?

C: [silence]

Me: Did you play outside?

C: [silence]

Me: What did Cassidy do at school today? (If you don't remember, Cassidy is his girlfriend at school. See post This is love!)

C: Cassidy eat lunch. Cassidy play outside. Cassidy play cymbals. Cassidy eat goldfish. Cassidy say more goldfish! Cassidy jump super high. Cassidy has a tricycle. Cassidy drink agua. Cassidy say more agua!

This is what I get. Random facts and all of the details of Cassidy's day. At least I know how to get it out of him! Precious boy.

Other recent gems:

When asked how old he is: "I'm two! I'm three! I'm four!"

"Dada, do push-ups!  Good job Cooper!"

"Look at Cooper!  Sooooooooo tall!"

No pic to go along with this next one but after we ate dinner tonight a song came on Pandora that said "Goodbye my almost lover".  Cooper repeated "Goodbye alligator!"

I love this age.  

Les Mis...funny recap!

My friend Taryn and I took a Mommy afternoon off last weekend and saw Les Miserables. It was great! The lady next to us also thought it was great and was les sobbing and les singing and les conducting an imaginary orchestra through the WHOLE movie. Les ugly crying to be exact. Highly entertaining.

I saw this hilarious review some guy had written as a Facebook status and had to share!

Too funny! Happy weekend!

The birthday boy!

Happy Birthday to Cooper!  I can't believe my little man is 2!  

Everyone says "it goes so fast"!  I'm not so sure I totally agree with that (especially on the days with a 5am wake up call!).  I think its that life is constantly changing around you and there is not much time to enjoy each step.  Either way you put it, it's amazing how far we've come in 2 years.  Just 9 short months ago Cooper started walking and this morning he was riding his new scooter around my kitchen!

So happy birthday to my Cooper boy: lover of running "super fast", swinging, grapes, blueberries, lima beans, Mr. Potato Head, anything to do with "agua", jumping, reading books, making music, Little Einsteins, "riding" Kona, making coffee, playing chase with Daddy and doing pretty much everything else with Mommy.  (Sorry Kyle, you know he's a total Mama's boy!)  

Here's to whatever you have in store for us at the next turn.  We love you!

The one with the first bump pic!

Yea, the bump is here! I'm finally past the "you look like you ate too much ice cream " stage!

Still not quite sure how I feel about the fact that in the not so distant past (ahem, last winter) this sweater was actually a sweater dress! Hopefully it is just temporary "repurposing"!

Pablo Cooper

a.k.a. Picasso, no?

It takes every ounce of my "type A" body not to help him out and just let him PLAY! My dear friend Chelsea is a little twitchy right now looking at this picture, I'm sure! I'm not so much of a neat freak but oh how I love order and routine! And just when I think my little Pablo Picasso is helping me channel my inner-spontaneity, I watch him do something like spy a coaster that is on my nightstand and watch him march it back to where it was clearly supposed to be in the living room! Ah, my boy!

And then comes this...

2 year old abstract art!

Literally, the most annoying thing...

...is the word literally. Literally. According to Kyle, that is.

Kyle can't stand when people say "literally" when they mean "figuratively". It's one of those funny little quirks about him that just tickles me and I just can't help pointing it out and noticing it all the time.

Example: I was so mad, my head was literally about to explode.

Really? Spontaneous head combustion?!

If you watch the Bachelor you'll catch this all the time. Just another reason, in addition to the cat fights and high drama, I love tormenting Kyle with that show! Payback football season!!!