Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! We slept in this morning. I made pancake batter and Brian cooked them up, for breakfast. Julia and Austin ate by the coffee table because they were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade at the same time. They were getting really irritated though, because the parade didn't actually start until an hour after it was supposed to. They kept showing pre-parade shows and ads! I made deviled eggs, which we had to bring to our friends' house this afternoon. We left around 3:20 to go to their house to share Thanksgiving dinner with them and some of their extended family. We had a fun time! Julia told my mom on the phone, when we got back, "We just got back from a Thanksgiving party!" I didn't take any pictures tonight--can you believe that?! My friend, Teri, took these, of the kids.






Monday morning Julia had a field trip to see a play. That afternoon was the second-grade awards assembly. All the second-graders performed two songs too, which were really cute. Many students were honored for various things: the character words of the month (trustworthiness and respect), perfect attendance, academic achievement in reading, math, English language learning, and spelling. Julia received an award for spelling. On the back her teacher had written a note saying Julia gets all the words right on the weekly tests, plus does very well on her dictation, including those "pesky marks that teachers nag about" :) like commas, quotation marks, punctuation, etc. Here she is with the other spelling award winners.


We finally have barstools! After living here 3 1/2 years, I finally ordered some! I couldn't decide how many to get, what color to get, and if I should get ones with or without backs. Finally I thought I better just get some!! They arrived Monday night and Brian assembled them. The kids were excited to sit on them to eat breakfast and lunch on Wednesday! Although Austin said he moved over by Julia, because Julia was lonely over there, and because Lauren was touching him with her messy yogurt fingers! Here they are at breakfast. Notice the truck by Austin's cup? He often brings a vehicle or two with him to meals. :) The stacks of books are there because we walked to the library once we were dressed and ready for the day. Austin had to walk home, because we checked out so many books that the stroller was too heavy to put all the books in and have him sit in it. The books sat in his spot on the walk home.


Here is view of the backs of the stools. I decided to go totally unmatching to the other furniture in the house. My friend went with white at her house, and I thought her stools looked good with her white counters and trim, so I copied her! That blanket on the floor is Lauren's current favorite.