Jacey Chronicles: What are you thankful for?

At the beginning of the month, Jacey started his cooking class at Clay Madsen. It's put on by Lupine Lane. I was very skeptical when we walked in on the first day and she said we'd be making hamburgers and curly fries. Seemed pretty ambitious for a bunch of toddlers. I guess I had it in my mind that it would be something a little simpler (and more lame, now that I think of it) like pudding. Anyway, that first week, we did indeed make burgers and curly fries and the kids did such a great job. The teacher makes it fun and really easy for them to do with only a tiny bit of help from the moms.

Jacey loves to cook at home and it is even more fun to cook in a room full of toddlers. The excitement and squeals of glee just adds to the ambiance. Class always starts out with a hello song...

"Busy, busy bumble bee
will you say your name for me?

Jacey!
Jacey!
Good morning, Jacey. Good morning.
Good morning, Jacey. Good morning."

Of course, we've been doing this song around the house singing it to the couch, Elmo, and every toy imaginable.

Today, after the good morning song, our teacher Lauren read a book about Thanksgiving and went around asking the kids what they were thankful for. Since we've been working on fall and harvest instead of thanksgiving concepts, I wasn't sure Jacey would get the idea of what it meant to be thankful. I was wrong. He very definitively stated that he is thanking for...
"Mac and cheese!"

Turned out great too because that's what we cooked in class today. Later this afternoon, I asked him again what he is thankful for and he said, "Mia." Russ asked him too this evening and he said the same thing, "Mia." Of course, Jonson and Joseph are a close second as is the whole rest of the list of family that comes along when he starts naming names. Can't blame a kid for loving mac and cheese and family!

Here's a pic of my silly goose making mac and cheese (which he wanted to take to Lillie but couldn't due to impending nap time).