Thanksgiving Reviews

Hyrum's Thanksgiving Nightmare:

This is the turkeys worst nightmare: Thanksgiving 🍗🦃👎
because Hyrum struggle of the turkey's death and fed Joyce desserts like meat with gravy.
So he stated hiding in the closet doing squeaking Señor Sqeakito by stress and anxiety.

(Mom's clarifying notes:  I forgot that Hyrum finds killing and eating turkeys tragic.  He has no problem eating ham, though, and once again berated me for not buying a ham.  Oops.  After Rusty chewed him out for being so rude, Hyrum approached me with a very humble plea: "Could we please just give the turkey to the neighbors?"  We laughed and reminded Hyrum that he didn't have to put any on his plate.  Of course, once dinner was served, Hyrum piled a ton of turkey and a couple rolls onto his plate.  He was a bit shamefaced but obviously enjoyed his turkey dinner.  His favorite part was feeding the giblets (after I made broth) to the cat, Joyce.  The bit about "hiding in the closet while squeaking Señor Squeakito" is taken from "Boss Baby", which he has watched about seven times in the last two days.)

Naomi's Thanksgiving Story:

We ate food.  Cheese and carrots.  Pizza!  Okay, I'm all done.

(Mom's clarifying notes:  Ooookay.... we didn't include any of those foods in our Thanksgiving meal. Naomi's language skills need a little work... ;o)  She was very fascinated on Monday when I cut up her pie pumpkin and baked it, but was annoyed that it wasn't immediately a pie.  Hannah helped me bake the pies on Wednesday, and Naomi watched intently.  Thursday she pretty much lived on rolls all day, and gobbled down her turkey and potatoes and pie.)

Hannah's Thanksgiving Summary:
Oh please please check hello world I am packing food but is that where Royse and Royse I ask you this is niece andOh please attack please check hello world I am packing food but is that where Royse Royse I ask you this is my niece and Mary was very OK with me Thanksgiving Siri yet food pizza and turkey Lala LalaLove Lala what is my name so it worked more of these please check hello Earl I am Peggy could but is that where Royse and Royse I ask you this is Nathan please attack please check hello well I am picking favorite is the worst SiriLala Siri what is my name so it worked more of these please check hello Earl I am packing food but is that where Royse and Royse I ask you this is Nathan oh please attack please check hello well I am picking favorite is the worst Siri I ask you is the right is very was very OK with me they scaring Siri yes I think then don’t you love Lala what is my name so it was more of you please check if you think you do but who is there is there a reason Royse I ask you this is Nathan please check please check hello I am I like

(Mom’s clarifying notes:
Um. Wow.
Hannah accidentally turned on the Siri transcribing feature and was so amused by Siri’s mistranslations that she kept reading them aloud as they popped up- leading to a wild cycle of nonsense and laughter.  Enjoy. )

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday!

Home Again

Nate and Mom spent a little over a week in the hospital. For a while there it looked like we would be there through Thanksgiving, but eventually Nate turned a corner and we were discharged. Lots of tests (for a variety of scary things) came back normal, so we are counting our blessings and grateful for a (hopefully) fresh start.

Also, no more ketogenic diet, whoo-hoo!  The dietitian joked about how rare it is to put a patient on a LESS restrictive diet, ha!

After a rough week that ended much better than expected, we are full of gratitude. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Mallard

Hyrum wants to do this post.  Here is his synopsis of a recent dream:

Hyrum got an dream at November 10th is abut that an albino alligator spit out an black squid and the Patchwork Girl threw an mallard at the Woozy. The Woozy breathed fire and the mallard  flew out to dodge the fire. The mallard attacks an 5 year old girl and the mallard pecks on her face. Next Hyrum woke up and smelled like an ferret havent showered for 19 months. And sweat. 

My Little Pony LIED!

On the way to the church for Cub Scouts and Young Women’s, Hannah and I saw a giant “middle C” note in the sky. It was actually the moon with a jet stream bisecting it, but it looked pretty cool.  By the time we stopped the car and tried to get a photo, the moon had moved and the photo opportunity was lost. We resumed our drive and talked about how fast the moon actually travels across the sky, things like that. When I mentioned that the moon rises and sets completely independent of the sunrise and sunset, Hannah blurted out, “What?  You mean My Little Pony LIED?!?”  We laughed and joked about it all the way to the church (“Curse you, Celestia!” “Wait til I tell Dad! etc)

Hannah was embarrassed about me sharing this story (12 year old dignity is fragile, apparently —who knew) but said it was okay as long as I shared something similarly embarrassing about myself. So...I was well into my 30s before it occurred to me that “Baa Baa Black Sheep”, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and the alphabet song all share the same tune. This was after baby number 4, no less.

Better now, Hannah?  😅  She’s so much fun to be around!