Loving on little sis...
Ahh...the simple pleasures of childhood!
Roar!! Still loving the dinosaur costume.
Getting Baby Girl snuggled up in Bubs sleeping bag. Our kids drag their pup tents and sleeping bags all over the house and set up camp. :)
Grandparent's Day
Making a craft for the grandparents
Grandparent's Day program
Silly Bean all ready for her Thanksgiving Feast
Guess the braids were bugging her...:)
Feasting...
With one of her BFF's at school...
Our Thankful Tree
Decorating for Christmas...it always looks worse before it looks better...
How the kids like to disperse ornaments...
Snackage...
The Bean's little tree for her room, which she decorated. :)
We didn't have too much going on in November, but there were a few things to take pictures of! First up, good old Fall fun: raking up leaves and jumping in them! We do that a least a couple of times each Fall with the kids. It's so fun! And we have the added advantage of a sloped yard so they can jump in the leaves and roll down the hill. I don't know how much actual raking ends up getting done, but we all have fun and make some memories. :)
Next, Grandparent's Day at the Bean's school. They usually have Grandparent's Day around Veteran's Day and do a little program in the auditorium. The Bean was super excited that Mimi and Grandpaw got to come to her class and visit with her.
Toward the end of the month the Bean had her Thanksgiving Feast at school. They were supposed to dress like either Pilgrims or Indians, and thankfully the Bean's Halloween Indian costume from when she was 3 still fit! (I really lucked out on the costume front this year!) They had turkey, popcorn, grapes and cupcakes for their feast at school. (That's what the original pilgrims ate, right?!? With Caprisuns??) And they made placemats to eat on. Also for Thanksgiving this year, we did a "thankful" tree. I cut out leaf shapes on the die-cut machine at our church, and we each wrote down things we were thankful for on the leaves and hung them on our thankful tree. (The "tree" was branches I found in our yard.) :) It was fun hearing things Bubs and the Bean were thankful for...the Bean's list included lipgloss, God, and school. Bubs list included peanut butter crackers, Daddy, and playing outside.
And of course, most years after Thanksgiving Day, we start getting ready for Christmas, and this year was no exception! We pulled all the decorations out and had fun getting in the Christmas spirit. I always make hot chocolate and a snack...I can't really remember what the snack was, but judging from the pictures I'm guessing chocolate oatmeal cookies??? I do the "prep" while the kiddos eat and then they help me put on the ornaments. Some re-distributing is usually necessary. :)
Now, on to December!
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