Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Teachable Moments (whether you know it or not)

Rhiannon is no stranger to the kitchen; either by way of sneaking snacks in the fridge or by helping me cook.  This past weekend, she asked to make breakfast "All By Myself".  So I let her.  Supervised, of course.


Nothing tastes better than something you made yourself!
It's really no surprise that she wants to help cook; she sees Mommy in the kitchen a lot (probably too much if you know what I mean) and as most young'ens are apt to do, they watch and they want to imitate.

Rhiannon and I were playing in her bedroom a few days ago.  I was eventually able to extricate myself from the Princess Diamond Pony and Velociraptor Adventures and went to sit down on the bed with a magazine while she continued playing.  Not really watching her, I was a bit puzzled when she announces, "......and now we take the guts out."

At some point she had abandoned the plastic horses and dollar store dinosaurs and had taken my Svengoolie* rubber chicken (*sorry, a Chicagoland reference......BERWIN?!?), wrapped a hair band around it's feet, secure it to the bedroom doorknob and apparently was at the end of the butchering process.  She had even gone into her bathroom to grab a pair of tweezers and was picking off the imaginary pinfeathers!

So I guess that my worrying about how she would take being around poultry butchering days when she was younger was all for naught.

10 comments:

  1. That's hysterical! (She sounds so much like my daughter.)

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  2. LOL!!!! I love it!!!!!!!! She is so adorable. I love the pic of her scrambling her eggs. Enjoy her smallness, they grow up too fast :)))))))

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  3. Now that there is downright FUNNY!

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  4. I notice that Rhiannon does everything with a flair - and there is no doubt in my mind that she will be able to take care of herself in any situation. That girl has moxie! Hmmmm. I wonder where she gets it..... :) xo

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  5. That is one of the funniest things I've heard in a while.

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  6. Carolyn,

    Rhiannon is like a Minnie Carolyn.......she watches you all the time when you work around the homestead and picks things up.
    I think this is too funny :-)
    Enjoy, the little ones grow up to darn fast.

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  7. I came on over from Sci Fi - Good job. Kids need to be in the kitchen & they need to see a tape measure so that when they are in 4-5th grade they aren't clueless about fractions.

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  8. We never know what they are absorbing........should make us wary.

    I love that she has adapted to your lifestyle.

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  9. The Awesome's, I have to admit, I did chuckle :)

    Kelly, she's doing things every day that I had to step back and think, "Wow, she's doing XYZ by herself now".

    SciFiChick, definitely worth a good "snort - chuckle"!

    Susan, if you only knew half the things Rhiannon does with a "flair".....she is a complete HAM!

    DFW, glad to make you snicker...or chortle, or laugh, or even snort!

    Sandy, I am a bit worried about what other things she may have picked up from her not-so-proper Mother.

    SFG, great (that she'll be helping us with butchering real soon) AND funny to boot!

    Lady Locust, Welcome! Oh, I remember struggling with fractions, I hope that getting Rhiannon in the kitchen with the measuring cups and building stuff with her father using the measuring tape will help with that.

    gld, wary. definitely wary :)

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