First Christmas Presents

Papa and GG told the boys they could each open their first present as soon as three boxes showed up on our doorstep.  They are here.!!!!

The boys were very excited that they each have a bean bag chair of their own!

They decided that they should use them first for reading books!

Then, they quickly became a weird slide.

Reading

You can often find Aiden curled up with a book.

PlayDoh Letters

Ms. Rachel took this picture of Emery making letters out of play-doh this morning at preschool.

Quilting

Aiden asked me if you could learn how to quilt, so he's helping me with a small project for Grandma Jo.

Holiday Cub Scouts Party

The boys had a great time at their Cub Scout Holiday Pack meeting.  Parker was not good at picking up the marshmallows with the spoon in his mouth, but he was full of determination.  He worked and worked until he finally got all of the marshmallows picked up and into the stocking.

Parker also received his Bob Cat ranking at tonight's pack meeting!

Mixing Games

Emery wanted to spice up the game Max with using the characters from Krosmaster.  We call this mashup - KrosMax.

Games

Perhaps we bought a few too many games on Black Friday-Cyber Monday....nah...there is no such thing as too many games....even if the stack is as tall as Emery, right?

Basketball

Parker's first basketball practice.

 

These two were break dancing on the sidelines.

 

Aiden's first basketball practice was also a success. 

There are several kids on the sidelines playing, but I think these three are up to something.....

Trouble Sleeping

Bandit doesn't mind when Aiden gets in trouble at bed time and has to

sleep in our closet....

Oreos

 

These boys had a great night decorating chocolate dipped oreos.

Don't they look tasty!

Tired Boy

Emery refused to take a nap, until I told him that he could sleep in my bed.

Game Tree

Aiden decided to use game pieces from Pandemic Legacy to decorate his tree for school.  It might be a bio hazard, but I think it turned out great!

Oh, Christmas Tree!

 

We got the tree up and the lights on, the boys did all of the decorating this year.  It was so much fun to watch them pick the ornaments and ask where they were from.

Pie for Breakfast?

Must be the day after Thanksgiving.  I asked Mom for pie for breakfast, and she said, "Sure!"

Happy Thanksgiving!

Helping Grandma Jo cook.

Mama got some baby Cade time.

 

We got lots of time with Holden and Leah.

 

These boys had to have baby Cade time as well!

Leah is such a good big sister.

Thanksgiving Feast

 

Daddy and Mommy joined me at school today for a special Thanksgiving feast.  We had a great time!

The Snozzle

Aiden says that this will be the hot Christmas gift of the year, he's calling it "the snozzle"

Snowman

 

The boys used the first measurable snowfall to make this snowman.  I asked Aiden to take a photo of him for me, and he came back with a good 20 photos of him and Parker with the snowman.  Here are two good ones.

Tired

I needed to make a phone call and Emery was making all sorts of noises.  I shut the office door and told him he had to stay out of the office.  Obviously, he was very tired as he went and got a blanket and curled up, right outside the office door where he could watch me. He promptly fell asleep!

Turkey Legs

 

Brandon cooked us up a turkey today and the boys really liked the drumsticks,

Pirate Ninja Parker

Sun Glasses

Tree Planting

  

Look at these hard workers helping me plant some fruit trees in our yard.

Electric Piano

Some of the benefits of an electric piano and piano lessons......

Baked Pumpkin Donuts

While Dad is away, Mom thought she'd spoil us with baking pumpkin donuts.

PTO Movie Night

 

PTO movie night in the North Ridge Gym.  Tonight we watch Inside Out!

We even won the grand prize movie night bucket, including the movie!

Ninja Parker

Parker found some scraps of fabric that he could put to good use.

Flushing Hydrants

On the way home from school today, we saw the city flushing the hydrants.  This was a lot of fun to watch, especially the school buses that drove through it.  We also had a lot of questions for the worker.  He was very kind to answer all of them!