Brushing your teeth toddler style

We've been trying to brush our teeth daily, and the kids are learning to brush too. The other night, I was helping the kids brush their teeth. Jacki has a light up toothbrush that blinks as she brushes, so she knows how long to brush. We're still working on brushing every tooth. I brushed Wesley's teeth, which didn't take long since there are only 9.  Jacki's brush stopped blinking, so she was done too. I gave Wes his toothbrush (to practice) and pretend like he was brushing, and I went to my bathroom and brushed my teeth. I was gone for two to three minutes. When I came back, Jacki was gone. Wes had her toothbrush and his toothbrush and was dipping them into the toilet.

Thanks to our wonderful dental hygienist who told me that you can sanitize toothbrushes by washing them in the dishwasher. It's been a couple of days since this incident, and Wes hasn't died, so he must not have taken in too much toilet water.

Alphabet Soup

I was making chili in the crock pot, and Jacki told me that she was making soup. She took all of the alphabet magnets off the fridge and put them in the small crock pot (the kind that is used for dips). She told me it was ready, and I said okay and went down to fold clothes while I watched Oprah. Then, she told me that she touched the hot soup, and I still didn't catch on. I thought she must have touched my crock pot, but Ty came home and said that the little crock pot was on and hot with all of the alphabet magnets in it. I will never think of Alphabet soup the same way. It turned out to be funny (since the house didn't burn down.)

Talking to the yogurt

Thursday was story time. Jacki got a bunch of books and a couple of movies. She went to get them out of the car. She told me not to let Wes eat her yogurt over and over. I told her I heard her the first several times. Then she said, “I wasn’t talking to you mom- I was talking to my yogurt.”

Truck with Fluffy stuff

Yesterday we had insulation put in our attic. It's free for us with the current rebates available. I told Jacki that there was a big truck coming that would pump fluffy stuff called insulation into the ceiling that would help keep the house warm. She was so excited and would not leave the front window, but they were late, so after an hour, I made her go down for a nap. They ended up coming 3 hours late, which worked out fine.  Jacki and Wes had just woken up from their naps. I told Jacki that she hadn't missed the truck. It was still coming. She asked, "Did they have a nap too." She liked watching the insulation pump through. I asked her if she remembered the big word I taught her, and she said, fluffilation. Ty and I think it should be renamed that.

Conference Sour Cream saga

For the family get together in between conference, we were assigned to bring funeral potatoes. The recipe is simple. It needs 4 ingredients: potatoes, sour cream, cream of chicken soup, and cheese. Ty started making the recipe and told me we had no sour cream. I told him that it was on the grocery list, and he said it wasn't. (I was right, but that's not the point here.) When he looked at the list, he said, "Oh there were two sides to the list." He said he would have to go to the store. I knew that it wasn't a big deal. All I could think of is how good it was of him to do the grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning so I could rest. Since being pregnant, I feel like I'm going to faint when I stand up, feel exhausted when I wake up, and have a bad taste in my mouth- not bad for pregnancy, but I feel pretty lazy compared to my normal routine. Back to the sour cream, I was determined to find a solution. I remembered that we didn't have sour cream in Spain and used plain yogurt. I remembered that we had a cup of plain yogurt and was sure it would still be there. Who would eat plain yogurt? I looked in the fridge. It was gone. Ty said, "I ate it. I like plain yogurt." Well, I was running out of ideas. I found another recipe for sour cream substitute, but Ty said he had one in his mom's ward cookbook that we love.  Moral of the story.....don't let a little sour cream or other unimportant detail in life ruin or make your day sour. Laugh about the hiccups that happen to our smooth lives.) I laughed hard about all of this.

The prophet told the story of a little girl that cleaned her toy closet for service to him for his birthday. Ty told Jacki, "that's a big hint for you." She replied, "What did you say," He said, "you're cute." She replied, "I'm very cute."