Happy Thanksgiving!

 We had a lovely Thanksgiving with just us. We made a big turkey lots of sides and had lots of left overs. It was so nice to relax and not worry about others. We were able to really enjoy our time together as a family!

Blueberry boy!

Freeze dried fruit does not mean "mess free" fruit. Blueberries fresh do not turn your baby blue but freeze dried they sure do!

Preschool Counting

Charlotte and her counting "board"

Alestair finished for the 3rd time.
There is a toy behind his head he is not
really a little devil :)

Emmett working at just hammering. 

I found this idea one day looking for some other things but since I had just gotten a new sewing machine and it came with styrofoam I thought we could use it before trashing it. I used light bright nails from Emmett's Halloween pumpkin and hammers from Alestair's tool set. I wrote the numbers on the foam and then put dots on each number (same number of dots as the number itself). The kids hammered nails into each dot and counted them. It was very successful and lasted about 2hrs!

Water beads!

Just growing. They took 3hrs to get finished.

 They start out looking bumpy but end up smooth.

 Alestair and Emmett loved them! It was a good hour of entertainment for the both of them!

Happy Halloween!

We were all skeletons though Robert and I didn't end up wearing our costumes because A. They were too cold and B. They didn't turn out as well as I hoped. We did take Anabel with us trick or treating and she got a few treats. Alestair would knock on the doors and shove his bag at people then after the candy was in he would say thank you. No matter how hard we tried to get him to say trick or treat he wouldn't. He told me that it worked like this 'I ring the bell. They open the door. They give me candy. I say thanks.' We have a year to work on this I guess. Emmett just giggled at everyone.

Preschool Halloween Party

Pin the nose on the Jack O Lantern.

Maddy, Emmett, Charlotte

Maddy, Alestair, Emmett, Charlotte
The very best picture we could get of them and Emmett is the
only one looking...sigh.

 Writing Pads. I was super awesome and matched the girls without knowing it :)

 Oobleck. We read the story as well :) Alestair liked it but the girls weren't fond of Dr. Suess. Charlotte wouldn't touch it for the longest time. Maddy decided to grab the dye and turned her hands blue..I felt bad but it was her choice so something had to happen and it at least wasn't her dress!

We made eyeballs with chocolate chips and marshmallows. We also bobbed for apples but with all of the water happening I didn't get pictures :(

Camping Day 3

 Alestair tried really hard to stay with Anabel all the time. She was a little unsure about this.

Instead of going to the park we hiked today and the boys explored while we packed up. Alestair was very careful to be sure that Emmett was ok.