I Am So Embarrassed!

I am so embarrassed! If you promise not to tell anyone, I am going to tattle on my Ranny, so shhhhhhhh, you can't tell anyone!

I am under the blanket so hopefully she doesn't know I am typing this and telling on her. If I hear her coming around, I will hide so she doesn't know what I am doing.

From what I know about my Ranny in the few short months I have been on this earth and the short time I have been at her house, she is fun!

She loves to sing silly songs to me while she claps her hands and dances around. You should see her, then again, she only does it for me. She loves to take pictures of me and has taken so many since I have been here, I have permanent spots in my eyes from the flash. She has taught me that if I fuss enough, she will pick me up and rock me and I really like that.

But the BIG secret is...the one I am embarrassed about, is my Ranny read a story yesterday on this thing called the internet about there being a pumpkin shortage this year and she made my Papa go out and buy 4 (see, I am holding 4 fingers up) pumpkins.

I am confused on these pumpkins though because the ones I saw awhile back on what they call Halloween were big and round and had light coming out of spooky faces, but these pumpkins, well all I can do is show you a picture and you tell me, what they really did with those spooky faces!

I heard my cousins asking my Ranny if she was going to make her pumpkin bread, I guess it is really good if you have teeth (which I don't yet) and then there are her famous pumpkin pancakes and pies. I might get to try some pie on this new thing coming up called Thanksgiving (I have so much to be thankful for even at such a young age).

Well, I hear my Ranny coming down the stairs, so I have to put her computer back and pretend we didn't have this conversation. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, remember, I never told you anything!

Something smells yummy!

There is just nothing better than spending a Sunday afternoon right after church making something special with my three grandchildren and when its Pumpkin Bread, well, I think their faces say it all.

Hmmmm, maybe I should get busy making them an apron!

They all love to help with cooking and their favorite thing right now is learning how to crack eggs without getting the shells in the batter. In this first picture, two are holding the bowl while the other stirs the batter or else the bowl gets away from them!

This second picture is of the oldest stirring and notice she is using 2 hands. That is because the batter is very thick and secondly, I showed them how to bring the ingredients at the bottom of the bowl up to the surface. They are such great team workers!

This last picture is of them and their finished product right before it went into the oven. Look how happy their little faces are.
I would love to show you the finished product, however shortly after these loaves cooled I had a very repentant child come up to me and tell me this story.

'Ranny, I did something and you are going to be upset with me. I took a piece of the crust from the pumpkin bread to try it and it was so good, I ate the whole crust.'

So, I go to check it out just as little brother is passing by it and he looks at me and says, 'Ranny, I think somebody dropped this one on the floor because the crust is gone.'

She ate the entire top of one of the loaves right off.
Of course she made up for it when she said it was really really good and I just couldn't stop.

Whatcha gonna do but love them and laugh!