We've eaten a whoooooooooole lot of turkey with the fixin's in the last couple of days, so Mommy was planning on a simple dinner – pancakes with strawberries on top. Yummers! (Especially, a'cuz we add hotdogs into our pancakes, so ours are better.)

We hear Daddy going through the fruit bowl, where we keep "fresh" fruit to eat, but we haven't bought any fruit in a couple of weeks, so it wasn't all that fresh. He was grossed out, while removing moldy "raisins." We know there were only oranges and apples left. We hear Daddy chopping in the kitchen, while we're watching a rerun of CSI: New York in the living room, about 8-12 feet away. (2½-4 meters)

We also know that Teddy ESPNs Daddy recipes, if Daddy doesn't actually bring him out into the kitchen to do the cooking. Spaulding asks Teddy if he is ESPNing Daddy, and Teddy gives us a short, "Yes." Teddies can't ESPN (yes, I know people call this "ESP," but these bears are sports fan, so assume it is "ESPN") and talk at the same time, so Spaulding doesn't interfer.

Mommy asks Spaulding, "Can't you ESPN Teddy to find out what he is ESPNing Daddy?"

"Yes, but then the message fades, and Daddy can't hear it!" (Mommy adds, "I didn't know that, did you?")

A minute later, Mommy calls out to Daddy, "Apples?"

"Yes," Daddy calls back.

"How'dja know?" Spaulding asks, worried that Mommy might be able to ESPN to Daddy without any Teddy Bear help.

"I can smell them."

After Spaulding absorbs this information, he sniffs. "Oh yeah!"

"Can you eat now?" Daddy asks Mommy, knowing its an hour before the usual dinnertime, but Mommy can always eat.

More cooking goes on, as Mommy and Spaulding settle in to their best guesses. Mommy thinks, "apple pancakes."

Spaulding thinks, "walnut pancakes with apple compote on top."

Both are pleasantly surprised when served walnut and almond whole wheat pancakes with no salt, and Splenda, instead of sugar. Apple and raisin (real raisins, not rotting grapes) compote on top. Everyone, but Mommy, gets coffee, too. (Spaulding adds, "We don't know why Mommy is so weird, but she doesn't like coffee?!") And, Teddy adds hotdogs to the T. Bear Family pancakes, since meals aren't the same without hotdogs.

"I really felt like apple pie for Thanksgiving this year, and this is exactly what I've been tasting," Daddy adds, after everyone is finished eating.

And then Teddy adds the final traditional question, "Did yours have hotdogs in it?"

"Nope," answers Daddy, as he does every night.