30Nov2008: Day 188: Goss

Today's word for the day is "Goss" which is supposed to be gross, but said without the "r". It's another word that I use often for things that Makenna does but she turned it around on Hannah today. Makenna was on Chris's lap during church and Hannah was in our row playing with Hannah. We were feeding them cookies and I guess Hannah had licked her fingers than was wiping them on Chris's pants. Makenna then kept saying "goss, goss," which was surprisingly appropriate at the moment. She is also of the age where sticking her finger in her nose is the newest fad for her. Chris told her not to pick her nose and Makenna repeated, "don't pick nose." Now if she'd only listen and obey what she says.

I had to give a talk today in church and at one point, I saw Makenna running up the isle to come see me. She was a bit difficult and is clever in thinking of ways to get out of Sacrament Meeting. She keeps saying she needs her diaper changed, or that she has to play the piano, or she needs to go for a walk, or she needs a yogurt was another one she kept saying today.

The palace yesterday was definitely huge. We only got to see a small part of it. They also had really nice gardens which, as Chris mentioned, being that it was cold, were not something we wanted to walk to see. The pictures were from the back of the palace so it was right there. I'm sure they're a lot nicer in the spring/summer to see.

These other couple of pictures were also from the palace. If you notice in yesterday's post where Makenna is with me, she is wearing a pink knit hat that Grandma Jones made for her when she was less than a year old. Well, she's out grown it, or it's stretched a bit. It doesn't stay on her head very well, so we bought this other, really cute one at one of the shops at the palace. She likes it, which helps, as she keeps it on her head. She also insists on wearing her leopard coat from Grandma Grosek that she got for her second birthday. The shop also had matching scarf and mittens but I figured they'd just get lost and/or not used, not to mention they cost quite a bit.

In this picture you can see Makenna happened upon a Santa in a chair and she was quite enamoured with it. Hopefully when we go see Santa in a couple of Fridays she'll be just as enamoured with a "live" one as she was with the statue one.

Sorry it's a bit dark, I didn't have the flash on as I wasn't sure if I was supposed to take pictures in this area.

One last thing, if you haven't already tried, if you click on any one of the pictures, you see a bigger version of it. The picture at the top of yesterday's blog is a "panoramic view" that Chris got from a website. So if you click on it, you can then scroll and see a better view of this really big palace.