Statistics from today:
Total number of emergency trips to the grocery store: 1
Number of wild turkeys in our yard today: 3
Number of baths Nolan needed: 3
Calories consumed: 8,000,000,000
Gotta love turkey day! We woke up early (by "we" I mean Matthew) and started the preparations for the big dinner. The turkey, having been in the refrigerator since Saturday, was only slightly thawed. After running some hot water over the thing, I managed to pry the cavities open and remove the "guts." Blech. I know why I went into biotech rather than continuing on into medical school. Even turkey giblets gross me out!
We did discover that a 17 pound turkey will not fit into a "large" sized oven bag. This necessitated an emergency run to our local grocery store for an "extra-large" bag. The husband and toddler were dispatched to perform this duty and returned with the oven bags, spaghetti-O's, and root beer. I just wonder what the cashier must have been thinking...
Dinner was soon cooking and we had (what else) spaghetti-O's and root beer for lunch (milk for Matthew). It is interesting to note that while ravioli is the most disastrous food on earth to feed to a toddler (the stains are STILL in the wallpaper), spaghetti-O's are not nearly as volatile.
The turkey was soon done and Dennis pulled it out of the oven. Nolan, who had been very spiffy and clean after his first two baths today (lots of spitting up and that sort of thing) decided to do something quite uncouth. Let us just say that the child exploded in a very "yellow" sort of way. Bath number 3 was soon underway as the turkey was being carved. We would have taken pictures of our Thanksgiving meal this year, but we were just too afraid something else might happen. We ate as quickly as possible before Matthew would decide to use his mashed potatoes as playdough or Nolan could explode again. So, no pictures.
I figure we'll call this a very successful year since we had dinner hot and on the table on time with two kids under the age of two.
Total number of emergency trips to the grocery store: 1
Number of wild turkeys in our yard today: 3
Number of baths Nolan needed: 3
Calories consumed: 8,000,000,000
Gotta love turkey day! We woke up early (by "we" I mean Matthew) and started the preparations for the big dinner. The turkey, having been in the refrigerator since Saturday, was only slightly thawed. After running some hot water over the thing, I managed to pry the cavities open and remove the "guts." Blech. I know why I went into biotech rather than continuing on into medical school. Even turkey giblets gross me out!
We did discover that a 17 pound turkey will not fit into a "large" sized oven bag. This necessitated an emergency run to our local grocery store for an "extra-large" bag. The husband and toddler were dispatched to perform this duty and returned with the oven bags, spaghetti-O's, and root beer. I just wonder what the cashier must have been thinking...
Dinner was soon cooking and we had (what else) spaghetti-O's and root beer for lunch (milk for Matthew). It is interesting to note that while ravioli is the most disastrous food on earth to feed to a toddler (the stains are STILL in the wallpaper), spaghetti-O's are not nearly as volatile.
The turkey was soon done and Dennis pulled it out of the oven. Nolan, who had been very spiffy and clean after his first two baths today (lots of spitting up and that sort of thing) decided to do something quite uncouth. Let us just say that the child exploded in a very "yellow" sort of way. Bath number 3 was soon underway as the turkey was being carved. We would have taken pictures of our Thanksgiving meal this year, but we were just too afraid something else might happen. We ate as quickly as possible before Matthew would decide to use his mashed potatoes as playdough or Nolan could explode again. So, no pictures.
I figure we'll call this a very successful year since we had dinner hot and on the table on time with two kids under the age of two.
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