Cooking' With Jayden

As usual, Jayden is usually following me around the kitchen, trying to partake in whatever I am doing. I’ve kept him out of the cooking scene for obvious reason…things are hot and well I’d rather not deal with little burned fingers, especially since he refuses to let me look at, much less touch or put ice on something he’s hurt. I’m guessing it all stems back to the unfortunate toenail incident…I KNEW that was going to scar him for life. But today, for the 100th time, he drug his stool over next to the stove while I was cooking dinner, so today I humored him. I could manage to finish dinner using just once side of the stove, so Jayden got free reign of one burner.

Here’s what he made. It’s a delicious combination of a broken up breakfast egg and cheese muffin, a couple of carrots, and a whole lot of salt and pepper (an entire shaker full if you were wondering).




When Royal got home, Jayden wanted him to eat some of the dinner he’d prepared for him. Royal of course could not disappoint.


Here’s a close up of what Royal actually took a bite of and swallowed. Black pepper crusted carrot. yummmm

Weird Weather

Ok, this is just to prove how odd the weather is over here. Yesterday, as you can see from my post, it was all icy and snowy and just plain cold. Well, yesterday after the sun went DOWN, it warmed up. What?, you say. Yes, it got warmer at night. I left the house around 5:30 to finish up the last thing I needed to do for Christmas and the thermometer in my car said it was 37 degrees out. When I came home an hour and a half later, it was 40 degrees out. I know, I don’t get it either. Then this morning, Jayden came into our room asking, ‘Where is the snow?’ During the night, it stayed too warm that all the snow melted. Does this seem backwards to anyone else? It seems to me like when the sun - the sun which is our source of heat - goes down, usually the air gets cooler. But not here in Kansas, nope, the sun goes down here and things warm up. Here’s a picture from today. Yesterday things were white and beautiful, now we’re back to brown and ugly. Ugly compared to when things were covered in snow, anyway. No need for the foggy dew song today!

Fog

One of the things I’ve noticed I’ve missed the most, when it comes to weather over here, is there is no morning (sometimes all day) fog that comes in the fall and hangs around until spring sometime. There is just no moisture here to get any of that fog like there is in the pacific northwest. I had a really hard time feeling like it was fall when I had yet to see any fog, then I had a harder time decorating for Christmas when there had been hardly any rain and it was still super sunny outside. I have even missed the rain over here. I know, it’s hard to believe, I didn’t think I would ever say I missed the rain. But we went to bed one night and it started raining and it sounded so nice pounding on the roof. This morning, however, we woke up and were completely socked in with fog. Of course, with this being Kansas, it couldn’t just be any type of fog, it had to be extreme. It, of course, was freezing fog. The freezing fog did however put some ice on the trees, which there hasn’t been any of either. With all the snow around, it looked so wintery!



UPDATE: FOGGY FOGGY DEW
In honor of my dad, the man who dropped us off at school every day (telling us to tell all our friends hi for him), sometimes in an old mustang or sometimes in an old dotson pickup (both an odd lime green color) where he had to wipe the condensation off the inside of the windows because the defroster really didn’t work that well and only had the AM radio to listen to (we heard a lot of Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story), this is the song he would sing to us when the roads were so fogged in you couldn’t see 5 feet in front of your car :

“And the only, only time
I held her in my arms
Was to keep her from the foggy foggy dew
The fooooggggyyy deeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww ”

Next time you see my dad, you should ask him to sing it for you. He can really hit that high pitched last note really well. :) (Your welcome dad!)

Hangin' Out

With all the snow and super super cold temps (like -13 with wind chill), I’ve pretty much been trapped in the house. Not really a lot to post about, but here’s some new pictures for you to stare at. :) Willow will be 4 weeks old tomorrow, and in exactly 1 week, we will be on an airplane flying back to Washington for Christmas! Yaaaahooooo!!!!

3 weeks

Willow is 3 weeks old today! My parents are back in Washington, Royal’s back at work (although, he really didn’t take any time off when she was born, so that’s not that new), and so far both kids are mostly clean, dressed, and really most importantly, alive! So far, so good :) Here’s to making it through another week….

Happy Birthday, Brother

Happy 28th birthday Willie!  I miss you everyday.

Snow

It finally snowed today!!! It seemed a little freakish to me, being from the northwest where the weather is very consistent, once it gets cold, it stays cold, usually rainy and cold, but pretty much every day is about the same. Yesterday, here in Wichita, it was 60 degrees. Even when the sun went down, it didn’t cool off, it was still about 60 degrees outside. So, maybe you can see how surprised I was this morning when I woke up and it was snowing outside. I checked the weather and today’s high is a whopping 30 degrees. What the heck? A drop of 30 degrees in 1 day? It just doesn’t seem right. However, the wind is blowing here today like there’s no tomorrow, so while the temp outside says it’s 26, the wind chill drops it about down to 11, so when Jayden said he wanted to go outside and play in the snow, I wasn’t that excited. So, I enlisted Papa, especially since today is Jayden’s last day to play with Papa… :( sniff sniff





Papa was freezing!


Once they came inside and warmed up, Jayden decided he needed to wear Papa’s clothes so he could go back outside and make some snowballs.