The True Meaning of Royal Flush

I absolutely love holidays. Not just for the food or the great gifts, but because I have the world's best family to celebrate with. To sum up the entire Thanksgiving holiday, I'll just give the most notable moments of the weekend.

Luke has really been staring down "adult" plates as of late. Rather than wanting to eat his own food, he'd like to grab some of ours. We ordered some take-out pizza for the family the night before Thanksgiving and we were just hanging out in the kitchen in deep conversation, enjoying our dinner. I like to dip my pizza, so when I got some on my finger, I let Luke lick it off. Man, he really enjoyed it. I continued to give him little fingerfuls of sauce, when all of a sudden he smacked his hand on my plate and the entire tub of sauce shot in the air and landed all over his white socks and my brand new jeans. Afterward  he looked up at me with such questioning eyes... like Mommy, I spilled the sauce... I couldn't feel anything but sympathy.

For Thanksgiving, I was going to let Luke eat with us.. baby food chicken and gravy. Yumm. But he DID NOT like it one bit. He would sort of clamp his mouth shut, making it very difficult to feed him. My mom said, "Well, what do you expect? It's baby food. And all of the meats don't taste very good. Try it." I wasn't going to stick that gross stuff in my mouth. I pitched it and fed him bananas instead.

After eating, we decided to play Catch Phrase. One of my favorite games ever! My granddad isn't very good at it. He can't read the lettering, and all of his "hints" refer to politics and history lessons I must have failed. The player of the night would have to go to my sister. Her first clue was this: "It's a really big poop I guess." We're all looking at each other like WhAt?? The Real Phrase: Royal Flush.
Another good one of the night goes to granddad, who misread the phrase "Cordless Mouse" for "Cordless House". His hint was "A home with no outlets."

And to finish these last weekdays off, we spent a good amount of time picking up sticks and building a fence for the cows. Aldo locked my mom's keys in her car, but luckily we had an extra pair. Saw the new Harry Potter movie, part 1. (Don't bother... part 2 is going to have the most action.) And today I think Aldo is cleaning out the garage. Yay!