Pancakes

Usually (meaning, I did it last year) we make pancakes for Halloween, as I have sweet pancake molds that make a haunted house, a pumpkin and a bat. This year, since Halloween was Monday & D is big enough to have wanted to go trick-or-treat and get "trick-or-treats", I missed it. So yesterday we finally made pancakes.
Part of the reason for the pancake making was that Dean got a giraffe whisk the last time we were at Target (I'm a little whisk-obsessed, I probably would've gotten it for my self). He really wanted to "whisk" something, so pancakes it was!
Having a 3 year old help you stir can be fun, but he got a little over-zealous -- The blueberries ended up turning the batter a little bit grey :)
I'm so excited to have a little sous-chef in the kitchen! Friday we are going to attempt gnocchi!

Out to Eat

Last night DH's mom & dad took us to dinner at Red Robin. Dean usually gets a kids menu and crayons, which he is allowed to play with until he tries to eat them. Grandma was on "crayon watch" and he made it quite a while, but eventually the crayons ended up on the floor and D was getting grumpy. When "grumpy Dean" comes out, usually the cheerios do too, so I got out the cheerios and gave him a few. He ate a couple and then spent about 5 minutes trying to put them into the crayon box and then get them out again. It was quite funny to watch, he was SO serious! I only wish I'd had my camera!