• I should clean up my links on this blog. I know that some don't exist anymore.

• Everyone I know likes baked beans. They have always been disgusting to me. I wonder if this recipe would change my mind.

• We recently watched Freaks and Geeks and I think it is one of my favorite shows of all time. Except I kept relating to the parents more than the teenagers. Yikes old lady Cosper.

• In a conversation with Mike I kept saying Tyler Perry meaning Tyler Florence.

• Anyway I was talking about it because I always want to like coleslaw because Mike loves it, but I can't discuss the issues that broccoli and cabbage have with my digestive system. It wouldn't be lady like. So I LOVE butternut squash and Tyler (the chef, not Madea) has a butternut squash coleslaw. We are getting ready to make it for lunch right now. Mmm.

• Speaking of fall recipes, Tera has some here. Yum.

• I have been making crepe paper roses for the last week for my parents 40th anniversary party. The first one took me about 15 minutes to make, but I can make them in about 2 minutes after all this practice. I love this kind of stuff, but finishing over 30 so far...it might be a long time before I craft with paper again.

My friend Megan said I should start a blog that documents all the crazy things that Dorothy says...Um I have a blog, I just forget about it sometimes. And the girl talks ALL THE TIME! I try to get them all down. So here is a round up of things Dorothy Jean has said in the past few months. Some I have put on Twitter, some I have put in a journal, and some I have remembered. Tonight I got it all together in one spot. This may be boring to everyone, but me, Nana, and Sue-sue, but oh well.

18-19 months old

• Watched Dorothy use her bacon as a spoon for her yogurt this morning and say, "mmm".
• Can sing A-Z of the alphabet! She just needs the "Now I know" part!
• We went to Wild Eggs for breakfast. When the hostess asked how many Dorothy said "Hamburger, uh huh!

20-21 months old

• "Dorothy's watching her first Oaks day, saying "Horse, horse, horse" (May 1st)
• Dorothy has been saying "Mama's awesome" all day. I guess I say "awesome" a lot, but it made my day. (May 7th)
• Our first one on one time after Maggie was born, we were swinging at my parents house, "Mama I'm just a baby. I'm just a baby too."

22 months old

• "Kelsey please". Wanting to see our friend was when she woke up in the morning.
• Can sing "Amazing Grace" & "Jesus loves me"!
• Watching Man vs. Wild with the family...Dorothy says, "Hey Daddy I want to eat bug!" and now we change the channel.

23 months old

• The end of an era when Dorothy stopped calling oatmeal "E-o" and now calls it "oat-a-meal".
• At bedtime Dorothy sang, "I want to be be like Jesus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Skinamarinki doo!"

2 years old

• Dorothy nicknamed Daniel Ems "Uncle Corn". She was saying good bye their family and that is what she called him. And this isn't a one time she's done it since.
• Dorothy greeted Michael Morgan by running away and saying "I do not know, I do not know him!" She does.
• After throwing up all day, "I want to sing, Jesus loves me for the Bible tells me so".
• "Mama, a cricket is an insect"

25 months

• Can sing two whole verses of "Abide with Me
• Last night, we gave her ice cream after dinner 2 hours later she was still in awake in bed and screamed "Yeahaw, yeahaw, YEAHAW!"
• After I put on a long dress today, Dorothy patted my leg and said "You make a nice princess".
• And tonight I said "What are you thankful for?" She said "Elbows, diapers, Dora toothbrush, and Diego".