Bekah

Driving in the car a couple of days ago. Out of the blue, she says, "Okay, let me get this straight, your Daddy is OUR Papa?"

Let me get this straight? Who talks like that? At four? Sometimes, she just blows me away.

And please do scroll down. I posted three posts tonight. I am trying to catch up.

Bekah's First Big Boo-Boo

It was so sad. And she was having such a good day, too. We were swimming at my friend's house. The girls were in the pool. My friend and I were under the patio umbrella, nursing our sunburns from the last visit. (Don't ask. It was really ugly and I am still licking my wounds, so to speak.) So Rebekah is on the "sand beach" portion of the pool. It is built like a beach and the edge gradually gets deeper, like a beach. But it is made out of like concrete pebbles or something. Very cool. Anyway, so she is in like VERY shallow water. She is yelling at the dog, who is standing on the rock at the side of the pool right next to her. As we are watching, the dog jumps on her. Good sized dog, too. It is an australian sheepdog mix. Very smart. Very protective and watches the girls when they are in the pool. Well, he jumps on her back and she goes face down into the pool. About two inches of water. When she lifts her head up, her nose is bleeding and her forehead had hit the concrete beach. Hard. It immediately started swelling and turning red. Like you could see the veins showing through, red. With the addition of the water to the blood, it appears that she is bleeding like crazy, but it actually stopped after about five minutes. I took her to the doctor's office, since we were only ten minutes from there. I had to watch her closely last night, however, she was fine. No complaining, no headache, no nothing. She is a trooper. She was nervous and everybody who looked at her had this concerned and worried look and said, "ooooohh!" But she was fine. Is fine. She did very well. Not her fault and she wasn't really upset with the dog, either. She knows he didn't try to hurt her.

So last night her daddy took all of us to Coldstone Creamery. So she could get whatever she wanted. She ordered Sweet Cream...with chocolate chips. She said that was the best. She is so down to earth! Not much fazes this kid. She is such a joy in my life!

Special Bulletin From the Emergency Chocolate Network

1) Milk Chocolate Butter Chocolate buttercream	2) Dark Chocolate Butter Chocolate buttercream	3) Milk Buttercream Vanilla buttercream	4) Dark Buttercream Vanilla buttercream	5) Cashew Brittle Hard toffee with cashews and shredded coconut	6) Butterscotch Square Firm brown sugar, vanilla buttercream
7) Almond Square Roasted almonds and caramel	8) Milk Bordeaux™ Brown sugar buttercream	9) Dark Bordeaux™ Brown sugar buttercream	10) Pecan Buds Pecans and vanilla caramel	11) Milk Walnut English walnuts	12) Dark Walnut English walnuts
13) Milk Almonds Roasted almonds	14) Dark Almonds Roasted almonds	15) Milk Peanuts Roasted peanuts	16) Raspberry Truffle Rich raspberry chocolate	17) Almond Buds Roasted almonds and caramel	18) P-Nut Crunch™ Crunchy peanut butter center
19) Scotch Kiss Marshmallow and caramel	20) Marzipan Honey almond paste	21) Ginger Glaced ginger	22) California Brittle® Hard toffee with almonds	23) Dark Butterchew® Vanilla brown sugar caramel with dark chocolate coating	24) Dark Chocolate Chip Truffle Rich chocolate buttercream with chocolate chips
25) Maple Walnut Maple buttercream with English walnuts	26) Scotchmallow® Honey marshmallow and caramel	27) Light Chocolate Truffle Rich chocolate buttercream with ground nutmeats on top	28) Mocha Coffee milk chocolate buttercream	29) Cocoanut Cocoanut buttercream	30) Polar Bear Paw® Peanuts and vanilla caramel
31) Lemon Truffle Rich lemon chiffon buttercream	32) Dark Nougat Honey nougat, coconut, vanilla, with almonds	33) Dark Chocolate Truffle Rich chocolate buttercream with ground nutmeats on top	34) Caramel Caramel with almonds	35) Rum Nougat English walnuts, rum, cherries, raisin nougat	36) Orange Cream Orange buttercream
37) Strawberry Cream Strawberry buttercream with strawberries	38) Raspberry Cream Raspberry buttercream with raspberries	39) Vanilla Nut Cream Vanilla buttercream with English walnuts	41) Chelsea Chocolate buttercream with roasted pecans	42) Milk Divinity Whipped egg whites, vanilla cream and English walnuts	43) Walnut Square Caramel with English walnuts
44) Milk Butterchew Vanilla, brown sugar caramel	45) Peanut Nougat Chewy peanut nougat	46) Milk Pattie Vanilla caramel Recipe	47) Dark Pattie Chocolate vanilla caramel	48) See's Apple Pie Truffle® Rich buttercream with Granny Smith apples and cinnamon	49) Vanilla Nut Caramel Vanilla caramel and pecans
50) Key Lime Truffle Rich buttercream with Key Lime	58) Café au Lait Truffle Rich coffee buttercream	64) Apricot Delight Apricot buttercream with chopped apricot and toasted coconut Recipe	65) Divinity Puff Whipped egg whites, vanilla cream and English walnuts with shredded coconut	66) Butterscotch Chew Vanilla, brown sugar caramel	67) Almond Truffle Dark chocolate buttercream with ground almonds
68) Kona Mocha Coffee, chocolate buttercream and toasted coconut	75) Dark California Brittle® Hard toffee with almonds covered in dark chocolate

What is your favorite flavor? I just love the pecan buds and the walnut squares. Hubby loves the rum nougat. Hands down. Jess, the Scotchmallow. Rebekah, so far, whatever she can get her hands on.

Oh, and I just had an apple pie truffle the other day. OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!! Hubby's comment, "How DO they make a candy that tastes EXACTLY like apple pie???!" It tastes like more.

If you have never had See's Candies, you have no idea what you are missing. If you have, you KNOW what you are missing and if you are in the vicinity of one, you must go. They have the best candy, like, EVER! And if you don't like chocolate (and you know who you are), they have lemon truffles, key lime truffles and the aforementioned apple pie truffles that are, hands down, the best non-chocolate candies EVER! If nothing else, get some shipped to you when the weather cools down (though they CAN ship in the summer, it just costs more). That way, you can spend your money on more important things...like more candy.

Mmmmmmmmmmm. This concludes this post from the Emergency Chocolate Network. If this had been an actual chocolate emergency, there would be people running around in the streets trying to find a See's Candies. It is best to know where they are before an actual emergency occurs.