Pizza Pipsqueaks

The Best Cooking Show You Ever Even Done With Yuula

we ate the whole thing

No Simpler Set Of Desires

(from August 20th)

This was one Yuula's real birthday. All she wanted to do was swing high and eat pizza. Brithday girls gets what birthday girl wants. I can't think of a simpler set of desires.

Four is quirky.

But four is still Mommy's girl.

These kids gave Yuula a show for her birthday gift.

But her brother gave her his first crawl.

And Mommy baked her a pie.

I just documented the whole thing.

Doubel Zs

 Yuula wanted to learn to spell 'pizza' today. Not bad for a first go. Then we had it for dinner.

 She likes being able to spell. She wants to learn new words all the time. She wants to try 'unicorn' tomorrow. I may break that one into syllables. I don't know why she has nail clippers in this photo.

 Aesop does not spell yet.

Pizza, In Like 3 Minutes!

This year I am tearing apart another rock patio, because half of it sunk over the winter. If the whole thing sunk I'd probably leave it, but there's steps where I didn't necessarily put steps, so at this point it's probably just best i tear it apart and start over fresh. It was the first one I did going back 4-5 years now, and it was definitely a poor-at-best attempt at rock patio-ing.

But then main focus of the new patio, which will change shape and size and purpose, is to incorporate this sweet cob oven into the mix. This puppy bakes up pizzas in like 3 minutes! And I want one.

I found this website that lays it all out for you, and it's fairly complicated, but I don't intend on doing it this summer. Just keeping it in mind while re-working the area. And it looks fairly cheap too, which is my kind of project. As long as when it's all said and done I can cook that pizza in like 3 minutes!

Maybe there's some cobbing classes in the area that I can take. Or maybe I meet a cobber? Is that a thing? Who knows, if I get good at this I may just cob myself a brand new house, with it's own guitar room. Where I can cook a pizza in like 3 minutes!

Cookies For Dinner!

So we did not plan to be out all day. But we didn't realize how much stuff we had to do today. Bank deposit, transmission flush, x-ray, vaccination, birthday gift for Nadia, find garam masala and ginger garlic paste, beer for dinner party tomorrow,  bunny needs food, and butt splices to fix the Bose. We did most of that.

Pizza share for lunch, taco was best

Girl can shop. And she's sneaky too. Played us against each other to get herself a new bow.Asked me if she could get an orange bow. I said "ask your mother, you may already have one". She did. Laura asked "did Daddy say it was okay?". "Yes". "Ok then yes". Back to the register and hands me the bow. "Mommy said yes". Sneaky.

Finally got down to see Ashley in Allentown. Thought since we were down the road it was only right. She's become a northeastern girl, maybe for good, and we should really buy her some vinyl to break her into her new place. And a record player. She's invited to dinner. 

Memorable moment: Aesop pukes on Laura.

 oh, and we had cookies for dinner

She Likes Pepperoni And Ariana Grande

 We had a little friend over tonight, Aubrey from dance class. Apparently this is Aubrey's first time away from home overnight so, we're on the clock. 

 First things first, stock up on junk food and wear them down a little by filling their carts full of soup cans

 Now we see why Yuula likes her

 They made us all pineapple and pepperoni pizza for dinner...

 

well, the ones that made it to the oven were delicious

Ending the night with a Frozen marathon with personal buckets of popcorn ain't a bad way to end the day, when you're 3 or 35

I made Mickey Mouse pancakes in the morning, of which they ate the equivalent of his ear, but me? I killed that mouse. A couple times over.

Aubrey cried when her mother came to get her, so I guess that's a good sign, right? Tears?

Getting Goods Away From Home

Weird day. Two year old birthday party, complete with Foo Fighters soundtrack and Yuula got cake AND a cupcake, of which she ate neither. Laura's boss's daughter turned two and she likes Hello Kitty. The girls had a lot to talk about.

Then we met more Home Goods people at a pizza joint by the university. Yuula stole their spaghetti and ate none of it. 

Aesop was intrigued with the pizzerias choice of lighting. I don't think he blinked for 45 minutes.

These Are My Girls

Laura disappeared last night around 5pm and came home with a pound of wings (for herself), pizza, and ice cream. I don't mind. I like pizza and ice cream, but this boy is doing a number on her junkfood appetite.

This is Yuula's new version of ring toss. There's a whole build-up to get to this point and I gotta say, I don't quite understand the rules, but this means she won. Good Job?

So Totally Totally Very Big And Bigger

She's caught on to our home improvement routines

She's under the impression that restaurant booths have tires, and for some reason they're always flat

She's overwhelmed by fresh produce

She's taken to back alley shady surgeries

Pizza is a good cure for peeing on the dance floor

Version 12.0 of how to make grocery shopping more insane

Portion Control

No Peter Jackson perspective tricks. That is really the size of her pizza slice today. Munchy's. They make large pizza. Now we know.

She's Buried Behind The Walls

Explored a new camera app tonight and took some halfsies and sketch-style photos. Oh glorious. Just a lazy evening really, pizza and leftover cake.

But I found an app called "Ghost" so I thought I'd try it out.

I had Laura convinced that we were haunted. She was ready to pack up and move out when I showed her this one.

After 15 minutes of her being genuinely freaked out I confessed, she threw my phone, smacked me and now I'm blogging while she reads Yuula a bedtime story. Hope it's not a spooky one!

Anything But Turkey

Believe me, I am already sick of turkey. I've only had like two meals in the last few days that have not consisted of some turkey-based product.

Pizzaro's. Of course.

I'm pretty serious about my breakfasts.

Jump And Slide And Slide And Pizza

Dylan's 2nd birthday party at JerZjump!!

Yuula took to the bouncy houses like it was her lot in life

A new record for the largest slide to date

little pizza-eaters

The blow-up chair was popular. First Tyler took a seat...

Then the cousins with the cake

Then Grandma gave her best shot at a new facebook photo. Fail? You be the judge.

Happy birthday Dylan. You're two. It's all downhill from here.