I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for ICE CREAM!

I do not know what it is about the winter months, but ice cream just tastes so much better in the winter in my opinion. Do not get me wrong it is awesome in the summer time too, but it just seems like it is a little better during the winter months. We have been eating ice cream here at our house lately like it is going out of style. Almost every single night, we enjoy a bowl full of our favorite ice cream. Mine is mint chocolate chip. I have to say that Josie is taking a liking to this flavor as well. I give her the option of vanilla or mint chocolate chip and every time she chooses mint chocolate chip. She thinks she is the stuff when she gets her very own bowl. Well, who could blame her.

Tonight, Josie had the basement destroyed and when I say destroyed I mean toys everywhere. Brent told her he was getting himself a snack of ice cream and that she could not have any until the basement was all picked up. She did not like that response. He left her and went upstairs and told her to pick up her mess if she wanted some yummy ice cream. Lets just say that all of her toys did get picked up, but tears were shed in the process. I could not help but laugh. I was upstairs at the kitchen table doing some school work to prepare for my maternity leave, Brent was scooping up ice cream, and I could hear Josie crying, but also see her walking back and forth to her toy box picking up all of her toys like a good little girl. Minutes later she came upstairs wiping off her face and goes "Daddy I picked up. Ice cream now." It was so cute, but sad. When looking over her work, he agreed that yes she could have some now since she picked up 95% of all of her toys and put them where they belonged. She got lots of ice cream (twice as much as what Mommy gives her), in her own little bowl, with sprinkles on top. Now, you can not say Daddy is not a softy there when it comes to his little girl. She didn't even ask for sprinkles and he gave her some. I don't even give her sprinkles. Brent's response was "she deserves it." Man, what a sucker!

We ended our night as a family all three of us sitting on the couch eating some yummy ice cream. What a way to end the night!