Rob - lookie!

Oh no... why can I not learn? I mean seriously, was Grace's lipstick incident still not fresh in my mind? I should have know - Grace was two when it happened, be on the look out Eva's just turned two, a disaster is just around the corner... but no, can't learn from my mistakes can I?

I'm over at Nanni's typing up minutes from my recent Start-up meeting. I'd been meaning to get them done now for days, and since no one sleeps at my house it wasn't going to happen there. I'm busy typing away thinking Eva is being super good -- typing my notes at warp speed when I hear Rob say, "oh my gosh - have you seen this???" I was like, "seen what?" And I turn around...

Eva apparently was busy just not busy being good. Mom has this, oh who knows what it is, but it swings and draws in a large dish of very very fine sand... Sand that in the past has been a total magnet for both girls. Eva has nearly emptied the dish full of sand! It's everywhere... all over the table, all over and in between the wood floor, all over the carpet and the leather chair. Apparently, it was something she was rather proud of b/c w/ Rob passed the office she said, "Rob, lookie!" Like, gosh this has been hard work - destroying Nanni's office while Mommy is busy working. Geese I spent nearly as long cleaning up the mess as I did typing the minutes. You'd think I'd learn:-)

Aren't sprinkles just a train wreck waiting to happen??

Okay so as you can see the girls have my talent for cooking:-) We tried making ice cream cone cupcakes. They turned out so-so, not the best looking cupcakes... but once they are iced they look a lot like an ice cream cone. So the girls wanted to decorate them, so I iced them and passed them off to the girls to decorate (on their new picnic table courtesy of Nanni & Poppy!). They were having a ball... that is until Grace had a cone and Eva didn't. So I let Eva have the cake (I'd poured the left cake mix into a round cake pan) Eva was happily sprinkling away when I hear Grace say "NO Eva!"

Eva had poured her entire bottle of sprinkles on the cake and was patting them in - a very skilled technique:-) When she realized the icing was sticking to her hands she started licking it off, of course it didn't take Grace long to realize that was a lot more fun than what she was doing... needless to say I had a huge MESS when they were done. But I guess one of those events that once you're on the train and it's not stopping you might as well enjoy the ride:-)

Here is the recipe for you inspired bakers - courtesy of Mia!

you just do a regular cake mix...
then pour them into the cake cones about 2/3 full
then bake in preheated oven @ 325 for 30 minutes!
put 12 of them in a 9x13 pan standing up side-by-side so that they don't fall.
they don't rise all that much...and after you ice them, they really do look like ice cream cones ;) we used sprinkles but the mini chocolate chips would be cute too :)