pita, mosquitos, and nutella

mix and enjoy!

no, seriously, dont.  that would be sick

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...pita

i have found a way to get bennett to eat sandwiches.  its not that he wont eat them, bc hello my child is the human trash compactor.  he loves bread, mustard, turkey, cheese, all the fixins.  he just likes to separate them all and make a plum stinkin mess all over my kitchen.  that was just mopped.  so lets mop AGAIN.  

see...i dont like that pattern too much.  so, i tried pita bread.  

and VOILA!  the boy eats sandwiches.  cause he cant GET to the stuff.  he tried, but gave up and took to eating it like a big boy pretty quickly.  kudos benetian.

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...mosquitos

goodness it itches me just to say it.  i mean who opened the cage and let those pesky fellas out?  one known curse of living in the deep south, and i mean deeeeep south, is the mosquitos.  we even have them in the winter.  just maybe one mosquito per backyard (and they always find me).  in the summer, however, you cant walk outside without coming back inside with no fewer than 5 bites.  (in this case, "you" refers to ME...i dont technically know about everyone else).

i have a hate-hate relationship with these creatures.  you see i am allergic to insect bites (mainly stings - bee stings send me to the hospital, bites just welt up and itch and redden for weeks).  i also, unfortunately, am addicted to lotion.  

take my word for it - the two dont mix.  since the mosquitos are out in full southern-summer force, i am at a lack for fun activities with the bman.  he is an outdoor-sy type of guy, and i am a no-mosquitos type of girl.  and bug spray can only do so much.  anybody got any suggestions for summer activities that help avoid the BUGS?

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...nutella

so i dont know what rock ive been under, but it must be a pretty big one considering i had never heard of this stuff before.  well, i guess technically i have heard of it, in passing perhaps, but never even knew what it was.  so on a grocery store whim, i bought some.  and today, several weeks later, i found it and tried it.

ummmmm YUM

it is the most deliciously sweet nutty chocolatey spreadable slice of heaven and i think it must become a staple in this house.  bennett and i had an after-lunch snack of pita bread and nutella (that pita bread is good for more than sandwiches i tell you - use it as crust and make yourself a mini pizza. mmmmmm).

so, moral of this story ....try some nutella.  on some pita bread.  and for heavens sake, stay away from the mosquitos.

now i leave you with two pictures from this time last year. just bc they, too, are the most deliciously sweet nutty chocolatey spreadable slices of heaven.




{hint: for an even bigger bennett rush, click the picture and make it really big. then sit back and bask in the bald toothless wonder that my toddler once was}