Nee and She-Shes

About once a week, we have dinner with our friend's Patty and Luke. She's my high school best friend. We used to have breakfast together every Thursday morning at 5:30am, but since we couldn't convince the husbands that it was a great tradition, we do dinner instead--just kidding...I don't think you could pay me enough to wake up at 5:30 anymore because every second of uninterrupted sleep is heaven sent! Anyway, it's pretty customary that once of us provides the main course and the house and the other provides dessert, last night it was our turn to provide the sweets. Lucky enough, I'd been wanting to try a cupcake dish but hadn't had a good reason to bulk up on those calories, so last night was perfect.

Logan and I made these bad boys layered with butter cream frosting, chocolate cupcakes, reeses pieces and chocolate chips:

When we bake, I have to keep her as occupied as I can so that the mess isn't too big and we avoid injury. Logan has learned to locate several of her body parts in the last week or so (hair, belly, mouth, toes and her newest is her nose) and so I can usually scrape about 10 minutes of entertainment together just by asking her to point to them over and over. Her favorite is her nose (probably because she can stick her fingers in it...eww) which she has dubbed "nee." So when you ask where her nose is (if she's up for performing, that is), she'll either touch it or stick her finger up her nostril and say "NEE, NEE." Here she is mid way through:
If all else fails and I need something to keep her occupied I can pull out goldfish, one of her favorite snacks, and let her munch on them. I call them fishies and so now she asks for "she-shes" when it's snack time. It's been a lot of fun to listen to her vocabulary develop. It seems like every day she comes up with a new word to make her own and when she says one we've been working on for a while (like nose/nee), it's such a wonderful feeling of accomplishment! Here she is asking for she-she's:

And here she is enjoying them:

P.S. Have you been over to swagbucks yet? In the last two months I've earned enough swagbucks to pay for over half of our Christmas presents this year...I'm excited to see how many we'll actually have earned by November when we start applying for the gift cards so we can get them in time! I think we'll actually get a lot more this year than we did last year and won't pay a DIME for any of it. Go, now!