Today

Brooklyn decided she really likes mint 3 musketeers (so do I.) The first time I gave her one she didn't make a big mess with it...so I told her if she ate her dinner tonight she could have one for dessert (the mini ones.) I gave one to her and went into the other room for a minute and then I heard Brooklyn yell-I need to wash my hands! So I came back and she needed to wash more than her hands! Guess I learned my lesson about leaving a two year old alone with chocolate!

For dinner Brooklyn wanted waffles (she usually wants them for at least one meal a day, sometimes two...it is one of the few foods she currently will eat) anyway she always like to get the syrup out herself, and so she got the almost full syrup out and accidently dropped it on the floor, and the lid popped open leaving a big puddle of syrup on the floor. If you have never had the experience of cleaning up a huge puddle of syrup off the floor let me describe it for you-first you have to figure out how to get the syrup off the floor, I think I used about 20 paper towels, then you get to try to get the stickiness off the floor, I used 20 more paper towels (wet this time) trying to do that, then I used a towel to wipe up the water, then I had to get the towel wet to try to wipe up the stickiness that still remained. Add in the excitement of trying to keep a two year old from running through the syrup and I think that about sums it up. Sorry I didn't take a picture, the syrup just did not look very cute. (-;

Earlier today I gave Brooklyn her first piggy back ride (we couldn't give her piggy back rides earlier because her legs were too little to fit around us.) Anyway, her legs still don't quite fit around, but I managed to give her a short ride. I explained to her that it was called a piggy back ride. When I set her down she said "No, I want to ride the pig!" OK, I already am well aware that I need to lose weight, but that just helped reinforce that fact.