Happy Thanksgiving! We made a thankful turkey again this year, and, unfortunately, we weren't as active in making feathers as last year. However, we also didn't have 20 people in our house this year, so that might have affected things. Anyway, there's a shocking lack of things like antibiotics on there this year, and I'm thankful for that change of pace!!
Here's a snap from Grayson at preschool. This project actually reminds me of one I did when I was a kid. If I'm seeing this right, it looks like some golf tees in play doh, and he's sticking fuzzy balls on top. I remember when I was a kid, I did a summer golf camp, and I won a putting contest. As a reward, I got to pick out a golf ball to keep from the used ball bin in the club house, and decided I wanted to turn it into a trophy. I stuck a tee into some play doh and waited for it to dry to hold my prize winning putting skills. I don't think I got the tee in straight, because I always had a hard time getting the golf ball to stay on top. Looks like Grayson is having a lot better success with these fuzzy balls.
On Monday, we had a friends over day! Oh, there was no school this week. I spaced that with Grayson's picture above, but that must have been from the week before. I just download them as they're available... Anyway, the girls both had a friend over on Monday and had a lot of fun. Everyone made a turkey cookie, as well as playing all sorts of games throughout the day. Brooke and Robin made a pretty slick domino track too.
This next picture will probably prevent publishing this post until after Christmas, but Monica took the kids to make a vase for Gram for Christmas. They all painted part of it, and in review it sounded like it was really hard, and no one had much focus once their part was done... so you'll understand why we were so excited when Monica got a call telling her that when they went to bake it in the kiln, it was set... 1000 degrees too hot! And the vase melted into a puddle. So now our 1 of 1 is none. They gave us a gift card for double what we spent, which was really nice and is pretty awesome because the girls had a great time, however, Monica had a pretty rough time keeping the kids wrangled, and it's unlikely this effort will be duplicated. The worst part? They didn't even give us the puddle so we could wrap it.
I don't remember who, but someone was talking to Monica about the other Winry at school, and check it out! This is last year's yearbook, but there's a girl in the grade ahead of Winry who is also named Winry! The end of that sentence seemed a bit obvious as I was typing it, else why would I even mention it. Nonetheless, hello other Winry! Such a common name here in Texas.
I realized that the kids and I made the woeful oversight of not playing Mario Wonder that the family got for Christmas last year, so we played it some this past week. It helped that there was no school, so it was okay if we ended up staying up a little later than usual. Also, there is a level with "Hoppos" which are big hippos that roll around when bumped. Anyway, they were a huge hit, everyone was laughing through the level, and Grayson wanted to go back to the level again and again. They even made the thankful turkey if you go look.
Oriah and family came down for Thanksgiving on Wednesday. Sadly, as is becoming more common, we took no picture of everyone together... :( I liked this picture of a loaded plate more than everything out on the counter. Monica wow'd us all again! Shortly after linner the Albrights had to head back home as Michael had work at 1:30 in the morning, so it was a short visit, but we had fun together and it's always great to spend time with family.
On Friday we went to the park to burn off energy, and the Christmas lights were up! The kids had fun running circles inside it, and I joined them for a bit as well. We played until it was dark so that we could really appreciate the lights, and then headed home.
And finally, on Sunday, Jelly got reeeeeeallly relaxed, and stretched out really looooooong. What a silly!
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