A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Referring to worcestershire sauce, Dinah (age 3) says “It smells deelicious! But it doesn’t taste very good.”
Later Kyle made a comment referring to the same above mentioned 3 year old “She is allergic to obedience. It makes her break out in a bad case of the naughties.”
Made me laugh.
Dinah came into the room with black stuff all over her hands. When asked what it was, she totally denied having anything on her hands! HA! Like I can’t see that black stuff. Just look at that face! She totally LOOKS guilty. Turns out that it was a washable marker that Ethan had left lying around.
Something that Valerie (my midwife) said to me last time I was in for a prenatal checkup was, “That Dinah is a very smart little girl. And she DOES listen to you…..But she listens to herself more.” Isn’t that just the whole truth!
Or at least that’s what my kids must want me to think. Yesterday, since we were planning on going to Temple Square, I KNEW I was going to want my camera. So while the kids were at their primary activity I started looking for it. I couldn’t find it. So I had to look at my computer and see what the last picture I copied over was. Ok it was the rice stuffing, which means the last time I used it was the other day when I posted the picture of the rice stuffing to the food blog. WHICH MEANS that the camera should still be right here on my dresser, since that is where I was sitting when I had it last. I searched, my dresser and both desks in my room over and over. Ok I admit my house is quite messy, well actually the main part of the house is looking better but my room is still a disaster! I looked behind the picture frames on my dresser and I looked down behind my dresser and under my dresser. I looked under my bed in case it had somehow fallen and got kicked under there. I was starting to wonder if I had left it on my dresser or if I had taken it away from one of the kids and put it somewhere up high. I really could not remember what I did with it. I didn’t want to blame the kids if I just hid it really well, but after looking everywhere that I would normally have stashed it I still couldn’t find it and I just had to wonder. When the kids got back from their activity, we started asking them about it. Nobody seemed to know anything about it. Then later Ethan said that he had seen Dinah with it and took it away from her and put it under the couch. So each of the couches got lifted and then the kids bedrooms were searched. Still couldn’t find it, and when we asked Ethan WHEN he saw Dinah with it, he said back in November. Uh ok that was useless. Eventually I got mad and said we weren’t going to the temple without the camera. Amazingly it turned up very shortly after that. It was tucked down between the cushions of the couch.
This morning as we were getting ready to leave for church, I went to grab my little hand held computer. I always take it to church with me so I can jot down any announcements that I haven’t received an email for, and so that if I sign up for something I can make a note of it. When I went to my dresser, it wasn’t there. So I thought that maybe I had taken it out to the kitchen and set it down out there when I fed the kids. But it wasn’t there either. I was walking all over the house looking in the usual places that I would have set it down. I saw it this morning which means it would be on TOP of the rest of the mess right?! Well I wasn’t finding it, and I was getting really frustrated. Of course this made me feel like I was again, losing my mind, since I THOUGHT it was on the dresser and now it’s nowhere! I went out to the van where the kids were all loaded up waiting. And I asked them if any of them had seen it this morning. They all looked at me like I was crazy and said that they hadn’t seen it. I looked at each of their faces, and as soon as my eyes met Dinah’s I KNEW where my little computer was! As I looked at her I knew that if I ran in the house I would find it under my bed. I had gone down the hall earlier this morning to find out why Dinah ‘disappeared’ and I found her crouching on the floor on my side of the bed. She quickly bounced up and came out of my room with me. At that point I had no idea what she was getting into, but I didn’t see any sort of a mess so I figured she was just playing hide and seek with me, but when I looked into her eyes later when asking where my computer was I instantly knew that that’s what she had been messing with!
Ok so maybe, my children just like playing tricks on me to get me to THINK I’m going crazy, but really I’m not crazy yet! 🙂
For the past few weeks that we’ve known cousins were coming to Utah for a visit, Dinah has been talking lots and lots about Annaleah, and how she can’t wait to see her. Jenny said that Annaleah has been anticipating coming to visit ‘her friend Dinah’. So cute they’ve been wanting to see each other SO BADLY! And now they are together and just being so cute. 🙂
This year since Jenny and her family were in town, Thanksgiving was at our house. 🙂 I spent the morning making the last of 4 pies (made the other 3 last night), and making up the stuffing to stuff the 22 lb turkey and get it in the oven. Once the turkey was in the oven Kyle and I made up the veggie platter (carrot sticks, celery sticks, radishes, snap peas, red olives, mini dill pickles and ranch dip) and the other munchy platter (beef sausage log chunks, cheese cubes, wheat thin and triscut crackers, and a cheese ball). We also had cranberry pumpkin bread ready for an appetizer. Then I got to relax until about 2 in the afternoon, at which time I had to get up and start the bread machine on making rolls. Kyle made the mashed potatoes and the turkey was ready WAY earlier than anticipated. According to my cookbook, since the turkey was 22 lbs, and stuffed it was probably 23 lbs which meant that the turkey was supposed to be done some time between 4 and 4:30. It was WAY done at 3! I put the meat thermometer into the breast and the temperature shot right up to 180 degrees (which according to the chart on the thermometer sleeve, that is DONE for poultry).
Dad sent up See’s chocolate turkeys and the kids got to eat those after the turkey was in the oven and the excitement of getting dinner under way, was over.
Karen, Laurel & her family came over about 4:00, so I carved the turkey and we got everything set up to eat. The menu consisted of the turkey, apple rice stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes. Karen made a salad, and brought a couple of cans of cranberry sauce and olives. Laurel brought mashed yams, corn bread muffins, and broccoli. We also had my home canned plums, spiced peaches, and spiced apple rings and we had rolls so we could also have some of my home canned jams. 🙂 For drink we had a sherbet mixed with lemon lime soda, punch which was very yummy. The first batch we used pineapple sherbet, and the second batch we used mango sherbet. Debby and Jeff came over late since she had to work today and they just came out after she got off work. There was still plenty of food left though so they got to have their fill.
After dinner was over, we just hung out for a bit. And we had a bit of an incident. Jenny was playing with Dinah. Jenny had tucked one of Dinah’s kitty stuffed animals in her shirt and was crawling around on the floor pretending to look for it. Dinah knew where it was and was trying to get in front of her to pull it out of her shirt. At some point Dinah tripped over something and fell, but her face hit the bucket that we use to store the kids train toys. I have no idea what the bucket was doing in the living room instead of being in the boys room where it belongs, but when her face hit the bucket it snapped the rim off and that created a sharp edge which left Dinah with a bit of a scraped cheek and a long cut over her eye. 🙁
I got up to clean up the kitchen a bit and put away most of the leftover food. Then it was time to get out the pies. I made a blackberry pie, a peach pie, an eggnog pie, and a pumpkin streusel pie, and Laurel brought a sweet potato pie.
After pie we hung out a bit more. Laurel told some jokes. Then we called it a night. All in all it was a good thanksgiving, and I’m very grateful that I was on top of things enough that I wasn’t on my feet ALL day, that was very nice. I’m glad that everyone could come and that everyone seemed to enjoy the food.
