Lemon Bars

Lemon bars normally look yellow right?  This is what lemon bars look like when they have been in the oven for just over an hour.  The picture doesn't really do justice to the very brown crispy lemon bars. 

Here is the story of how the lemon bars burned.  As Audra was walking out the door tonight to do some interpreting, she set the timer for 15 minutes, put the lemon bars in the oven and said "don't forget to pull these out and let them cool when the timer goes off".

Well, one hour later I remembered the lemon bars in the oven and Gibson, Elsa and I raced to the kitchen to pull them out.  

Normally I have a good memory for things like pulling food out of the oven, etc.  The reason we missed the timer is because we were playing a really fun game Elsa made up.  We played a musical guessing game.  I assume they play this in Primary or something.  It reminded me of the piano puzzler on that NPR music hour.  Anyway, each of us took a turn "playing" something on the piano while the others tried to guess what was being played.  The first round was very successful.  Elsa started playing random keys on the piano and the first thing I guessed she said was correct.  I remember just enough from my piano lessons to play a few primary songs with one finger, so they guessed my song quickly.  When Gibson had his turn, he had a specific song in mind and it took us a long time to guess it. 

Round two:  Elsa thought it was pretty cool that Gibson got to "play" on the piano for such a long time that she decided to actually make us guess what she was playing.  Now imagine a four year old playing up and down the keys.  It was very melodic.  I would make guesses and Elsa would give me "hints" by playing two or three random notes from a different end of the piano.  Finally she realized that I was never going to guess her song so she gave me another clue.  She told me "it is a song from a movie with a guy named "Bob" in it".  I guessed the following: Sponge Bob, Bob the Builder, The Incredibles.  Then she gave me another clue.  "Bob has green leaves on his head".  Now honestly, what kind of show has people wearing green leaves on their head?  My guesses:  Tinkerbell, Peter Pan.  I think at this point I was starting to sound annoyed so Elsa gave in and told me the song/movie.  It was Veggie Tales.  Bob is a tomato so he has "green leaves" on his head.  I think a more appropriate hint would have been that Bob was not of the human persuasion.  We had a fun time despite the burned lemon bars.