Bob, SJP siting, wine, and burning the damn cookies!

Yesterday Al and I went all north of cinci to mason Ohio to get my fingerprints done for my Ohio License. It was hotter than hell, so afterwards we wanted to do something indoors. We explored a mall in cinci that turned out to be pretty awesome. The stores weren't all that amazing, though there were some cool ones like a Saks Fifth avenue outlet. They had a children's food place and there was a rollercoster inside and all kinds of cool little rides. The whole mall was painted in really bright colors and had cool animal type things hanging from the ceiling (that sounds weird now that i read that back, but they were decorations, not real dead freaky animals). So, I let Alex walk around with me without her stroller so no shopping was done. But that's ok. She needed some fun time for herself to explore. As we were walking around I saw a HUGE group of women and young girls standing in a strange line. I wasn't sure what was going on. I thought maybe there was one of those model searches type thing going on. But then, after looking a little more closely at some of those in the line, I decided this was probably not the case. Later, I found out they were waiting to see Sarah Jessica Parker herself at Steve and Barry's promoting her new line "Bitten". I went in, but only saw her from a distance. Wow! I never realized how star struck I am likely to get when faced with a star. I almost felt the need to get in line and wait so I could meet her. Maybe she would want to be my friend...Mind you, I'm not like her biggest fan, however, I do like her and nearly all her shows and movies. But when I saw her, I felt like if I didn't get in line, I would just die. It was a crazy urge, but luckily, reality set in that I had a wild two year old with me and, the crazy urge-like obsession passed. Then last night I saw it was all over the news. I felt like I needed to call everyone I knew and tell them I WAS THERE! But again, I got over it and decided I would just buy some wine and the fix'ns to make cookies..... (note the old school sjp pic!)

On to the cookies...I set out to make Tim's favorite cookie because, well, just because. They are peanut butter kisses. I thought they were going to be amazing! I couldn't wait to sink my teeth into one...or twelve. Unfortunately, due to my crappy cookie sheets, I burnt the bottoms. And I was very sad, as was Tim. He apologized for not liking them, but it still was a bummer. I did manage to make the last three without burning them. They were delightful. I ate them immediately. And I'm still eating the tops off the burnt ones. They are really more of a vehicle for the chocolate kiss...and they went well with my wine :)

Finally, oh, finally....there's Bob. It seems somehow that Alex has decided to call Tim--"Bob". Not "Da" or "Da Da"but....Bob. It's more of a "Ba-ob". We will ask her where daddy is and she does point to him, and she CAN say da da and dad and daddy, but she has decided Bob will be his name until further notice. It's pretty funny!