Dizzy Bug

Hope everyone had a fantastic turkey day! Ours was much smaller than usual, but I think we still cooked up as much food as we normally do when we have 4x as many people here. Little bug is now a huge help in the kitchen, and by help I mean that she wants to stir everything, pull on your legs to get picked up when you have raw meat on your hands, and no matter where she is in the house she can hear an oven door open that apparently she needs to run to.

I started letting her stir up the pies that I made the day before Thanksgiving. She did great stirring the pecan pie, but considering that it is mostly molasses and corn syrup she can't really toss too much out of the bowl. Then I was making a pumpkin pie so I decided to let her keep mixing. I was just telling daddy what a big girl she was turning into, when 'whap' she swung the spoon out of the bowl and slammed about a cup of the pumpkin pie mixture all over my pants. That ended her culinary career (this week anyway).

She has a new trick that apparently goes into hyper-drive when she gets a lot of sugar in her system (i.e. letting her eat out of the dairy whip can). She likes to spin around the living room in a circle until she gets so dizzy that she'll stare at the carpeting (I think it is to see the flowers move in her self-induced hallucinogenic trip). Since she is standing still to stare at the carpeting she invariably falls down. This would be entertaining since our furniture is soft and child proof, but the hardwood floors aren't. So as soon as we see dizzy bug in action, we run over to get in the catching position to make she doesn't take an off-carpet dive.

I thought that part of the spinning and staring at the floor was because she was obsessed with her new Dora slippers that we got her because her socks were sliding all over the floors, and she pulled off the gripper socks whenever we'd get them on her. But apparently she'll spin in Dora slippers or without.

Little bug had a great time today running all over the house and watching football while she tightly gripped her own football as if she was going to get called into the game somehow.