early risers

I was up at 5:30 a.m. I set my alarm for 6:30 but ever since we have been in our new home it has never gone off. I have been awake before the alarm. So I got up and checked email and checked some blogs. Then I hear little foot steps coming down the stairs. I knew it had to be one of the girls. They are my early risers. Neither of them need as much sleep as their brothers. They have been like this from day one. Rachel stopped taking naps at around 2 1/2. Mayah won't be 2 1/2 until end of December and she hasn't taken a nap for quite some time.

Rachel was up at 6 and not long after Mayah comes a runnin. So we decided to make breakfast together. We had some pumpkin left over from the pumpkin bread we made so we decided to make pumpkin pancakes. The girls LOVE to help in the kitchen. We had only one problem though. We didn't have enough syrup. So I had to improvise. We had a bit of pumpkin left so I mixed that with some water and brown sugar then added the rest of the syrup to that and heated it up. Not too bad if ya ask me. After we were done making the pancakes, Rachel ran up and woke up the boys. She told them we were having pumpkin pancakes and ofcourse Zach has his nose turned up when he came down. "I don't like these". That's funny since we have never even had these before. I didn't even want to tell them the syrup was pumpkin syrup. But Caleb looked at the syrup and asked if there was pumpkin in it. But Caleb is so good he ate it and seemed to like it. It was funny watching Zach eat. He had a horrible look on his face but he ate the whole thing. I don't think he will admit that they were good. The girls ate them up and liked them. I was very pleased that the kids ate them without "too much of a fuss". Here are the results.


Here are the yummy pancakes.


Rachel with her apron. She is stirring the pumpkin pancakes. Mayah helped too but she is just standing next to Rachel.