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Pure imagination

Remember the other day when I told you what it was like to take Belle shopping with me? 

 

Well...

I forgot to post this photo. 

Now this one, this one made me laugh. 

 

And this weekend when we stopped moving for say, oh, I don't know...thirty-two seconds TOPS, she told me she was bored and went up to her room and when she came back down she was decked out like this....

 

(Which was kind of weird for me to look at because coincidentally during my pregnancy with her, my butt was also as large as my belly.)

She stood looking out the window for a while and watched the rain falling and wondered why she couldn't just go out and ride her bike. 

 

She then got rid of the belly and the junk in her trunk and decided to wrestle Lily.

 

And once that got out of hand and she found herself in a little bit of trouble, she tried to deflect...

 

and blamed Drew for her bad behavior claiming he is on his iPhone too much. 

 

God I love that girl. 

 

Do your kids get bored if they are not amused 24/7?

Mexican fast food

Lately Drew and I have become obsessed with Mexican fast food.  Chipotle, Baja Fresh, Moe's.  I can not get enough!  Each chain offers something different and no two are alike in their offerings.  When the mood strikes, I find myself planning errands that NEED to be run now and it is just pure coincidence that one of these restaurants is a short distance away. 

If I want Chipotle we do something out by the Westbury mall or even better the one all the way out by Ikea, my absolute favorite place ever. 

If I want Baja Fresh, I go to a local shopping center that also very cleverly has other stores that I need something in. 

And if it's Moe's that I crave, we find ourselves food shopping a few towns over.  

Clearly by the photo below you can see that we are vegetarians which is why Mexican food works so well for us.  Belle took this sticker off one of the dinner orders and wore it around for the rest of the night.  She wore it for so long that when it came time for bed I could barely get it off. 

I guess had it been stuck there for good it could have said worse things than just 'Vegetarian' like maybe "My Mother's ass is getting so big because she won't stop eating Mexican fast food."

 
 

Betty Boops

I hardly ever share photos of my girls unless they are somewhat difficult to recognize, although I really wish I could because I would love too but Drew says NO and he is right.  Boring and paranoid but right. 

I snapped the photos below the other day with my iPhone while we were at the movies seeing A Christmas Carol in 3D and the girls were modeling their glasses for me.

I am starting to think that based on the number of postings that I have done involving Belle's birthday that it would seem that we have not done much else in the past ten days but I ASSURE you that is not the case because believe me people it is just a blast around here.

While I was reading through my favorite blogs I came across Dooce's list of cool holiday gifts.  One of the gifts was an iPhone app called Best Camera.  Best Camera allows you to take photos as you normally would with your iPhone and then apply certain effects to it. 

Since we all know that I am desperate for a camera that takes great photos, I thought perhaps the Best Camera app would hold me over for a bit.  So I did some of the effects on the pictures below. 

Although the camera doesn't magically transform my photos into works of art, it does make them slightly more interesting to look at, but still just slightly...I still need a great camera. 

 

      

Chocolate covered bits of heaven

Oh yeah, the girl who can cook a mean pasta and quite possibly nothing else, and maybe not even such a mean pasta the more I think about it, made these chocolate covered strawberries this past weekend.  Although just as I am writing this I realized that Drew actually ended up making them after I put the chocolate chips in a bowl directly over the flame instead of in a double boiler. 

Oh please, don't be such a snotty show off with your "double boiler".  Yes, I do know what that is.  Well at least the strawberries were MY idea.  What I lack in execution I make up for in imagination.

 

 

 

Loving

my new neighborhood and my 1.1 mile walk home from the train.