A few things - and SMORES cookies!

Happy weekend!  It's Ella & I just hanging out - Jay is out of town.  We have been doing lots of fun stuff - baked S'mores cookies on Thursday night (more on those in a minute), a kid's consignment sale & Subway on Friday, bakery breakfast, library & another trip to Subway today!  Ella & I are obsessed with Subway lately.  :)  Better than "Old McDonalds" (this is what Ella calls McDs - HA!)

So tonight at Subway, Ella was fake calling me on her cell phone.   When I figured out what was going on, I answered my fake cell phone and this was our conversation:
Ella:  "Hello?!  Mommy, you there?"
Me:  "Oh, hi Ella, how are you?"
Ella:  "Mommy, put my juice in my milk cup, okay, bye!"
Me:  I couldn't even talk I was laughing so hard!

Now about these S'mores cookies.  Here's a picture (I can't believe there are any left at this point, they are THAT good): 

You really should bake a batch up - like today!  I bake a lot, and this cookie is by far the most delicious one I've made in a LONG time.  The only other cookie that rivals this one is a chocolate chip cookie which includes vanilla pudding in the recipe.  So, seriously try it.  I'd love to know what you think.  I can't wait to make more.  I came across the recipe last week at some point and I think it was a link from a link.  But, here's the link to the recipe.  S'more Cookie  I didn't follow it exactly.  I used the new Kraft brand Mallow Bits (vanilla flavor) instead of regular marshmellows.  The Mallow Bits are tiny little delicious marshmellows that are sometimes in hot chocolate or on Caribou Campfire Mochas!  I also only had the dough in the fridge for like 20 minutes.  I didn't have any issues with it spreading too much or being too difficult to work with.  The trickiest part I found was making sure the cookie part was baked well enough without burning the graham bottom.  My oven was 5 minutes (add chocolate) and then back in for 6 minutes.  Here's the thing, I've seen and tried a few S'mores type recipes.  But this one is so authentic tasting, like you are indulging in the real deal.  With the Hershey's chocolate right on top.  Love!

And, I have to share two more things.  Ella has learned (via me, I guess) a bad word that isn't Darn it.  I swear I only used that word ONE time in front of her when we were in the car a few months back.  I don't know if I shared that story on the blog, but a day or so later, Ella dropped her baby (on purpose) and then looked up at me and said "D* it!"  I didn't even know how to respond I was so surprised.  Well, that happened again last weekend.  We were playing a Curious George matching game, and Ella got near the end and only had one Dog card left.  No match.  Ella looked at me and said "Oh the Dog card is missing D* it"  I was NOT prepared for this word to be used again, and said "Ella what did you say?" (Dumb, yes I know) and so, Ella, repeated it "Mommy, the Dog card is missing D* it!" OMG!  I wanted to laugh, but I said, Ella, that's a bad word we don't say that....and do you know what she responded?!?  "But Mommy and Daddy say that word!"  Oh man...so, then I said, well, Mommy and Daddy are going to be in big trouble with Grandma for saying that word (I had no idea what to say to her!)  and so then we had to call Grandma Deb.  Ella insisted that we tell her that the Dog card is missing.  I wanted to tell my mom the story b/c it was so hilarious but of course I couldn't repeat it in front of Ms. Ella.  Talk about a little stinker!

And lastly, Ella's obsession with books continues, and now she's started to make up her own stories (which all start with the obligatory "Once Upon a Time...")  I was able to catch a few of her rambling stories the other night, so I thought I'd share.  They make me smile.