Keeping Up With Kennedy

WARNING: The following post may make you sick to your stomach. The staff of Keeping up with Kennedy is not responsible for any nausea that may result from reading this entry.

I was cleaning out the fridge this weekend. Kennedy was helping me remove the items that usually live in the back because they don't get used often. She was fascinated by the huge jar of pickles that she had never noticed before. She asked me if she could do an experiment on the pickles. She talked of adding tabasco sauce and butter.

I gagged and explained to her that an experiment was more then just mixing stuff together. I told her that you do an experiment to try to prove or disprove a hypothesis. She mispronounced hypothesis with a very cute look on her face. I told her it was a guess or something you think will happen.

Kennedy's first hypothesis: "I think I can make you sick, Mommy."

After a few more attempts she decided that she could turn the sour pickles into sweet pickles because she likes sweet pickles better anyway. The experiment was set for tonight. I used it as leverage to get her room clean.

The first ingredient was 5 cups of pickles juice and one very large pickle cut into small pieces. Then the following items were added:

Several dashes of tabasco sauce
A whole lot of yellow mustard
Sweet relish
Two spoonfuls of salsa
A heaping spoon of diced garlic (like it didn't smell bad enough already)
Three cut up peppers
Fours dashes of soy sauce (which made it a yucky brown color)
A squirt of barbecue sauce
Alot of greek dressing with feta cheese
A slice of bread torn up in small pieces (very gross addition if you ask me)
Brownie crumbs

The last item was one cup of water. Don't ask me how but that last one made it look even worse. Maybe it was just the extended time of looking at the mess? She stirred the mixture up and tried to get me to taste it in between each new item. I tried to stop watching halfway through but I couldn't take my eyes away from the mess.

I am sorry to report that Kennedy was unable to turn sour pickles into sweet pickles by adding various and very random ingredients from the fridge. But to paraphrase Thomas Edison... she didn't not fail, she just found one way not to do it. I just hope that her next experiment smells a little better.