C is for cookie

Elena bought a bunch of chocolate chip cookie stuff at the store today so we made some cookies. When I say we I mean that Elena did most of the work and I tried to keep Olivia from destroying the kitchen and hold Zach. Olivia really likes to help. We would let her empty the measuring cups into the bowls. She really liked the eggs. Zach and I got kinda bored with that set up about 1/2 way through and went and watched the Wolves beat the Bucks. Go Wolves. Only about 10 games out.

Olivia said her first proper name the other day. Guess what it was. Zach? Scott? Elena? Speckles? Nopers it was, "Dora" from "Dora the Explorer"
fame. She'll walk around shouting "Dora!" and pointing at things.

We watch videos on Yahoo Launch pretty much every day. She's getting to like the Kelly Clarkson of American Idol fame video "Since U been Gone." *groan* So we watch it quite often. What ever happened to the other winners of that show? Oh well.

We watched the movie Troy the other day. It was based on the Iliad. I enjoyed it. I thought that Brad Pitt (Achilles) and Eric Bana (Hector) did a great job in their big fight scene. I wished that they'd have tried to make it more epic. I mean didn't the Trojan War last years? The boiled it down to two weeks. They also didn't show the Greek gods directly interfering with the lives of the mortals. Elena was sorely disappointed in the dreamy Orlando Bloom (Paris, the guy who took Helen back to Troy). He was a big wanny who ran away all the time and shot Achilles with a bunch of arrows from across a courtyard and then ran away again.