Ben - Thanksgiving 2011

What is Thanksgiving about? um uh um uh um uh Grandmama Thanksgiving

What are you thankful for?

um uh Dylan.  Avie.  um Avie.  um uh Granddat.  Granddat.  Granddat.  Emmie no no.  Um uh um um ummy I don know!  BJ Baby Bop Barney um um 

Also, Ben has made us sing 

"It's Thanksgiving, It's Thanksgiving

Time to eat

Time to eat

I like (insert food here)

I like (insert food here)

Yummy treat!

Yummy treat!"

over and over and OVER again this morning.

Drew - Thanksgiving 2011

What is Thankgiving about? It's about the pilgrims celebrating about the first Thanksgiving.  Whenever people come over to your house, you give them yummy food.

What are you thankful for?

Mommy

brother

Dada

Kate

my own self

Gram

Grandmama

Aunt Cindy

Dylan

Avie

Uncle Stephen

Granddad

Emmie

Katie

Andrew

MaMa

Grandmother

lollipops

baby frogs

baby turtles

new babies

that's all.

Who's a big boy?

Ben is. Last night was a double step into big boy world. He slept in his car bed for the first time (no issues) and slept without an overnight diaper for the first time (no issues).

Kate - Thanksgiving 2011

What is Thanksgiving All About?  Thanksgiving is about giving God thanks and eating lots of food.

What Kate is thankful for:

Mommy

Daddy

Daisy

Reagan

Drew

Ben

Grandmama

Granddad

Dylan

Gram

MaMa

Grandmother

Thanksgiving

Babies

Friends (Bekah, Andrew, Brooke, Katie Baker, Katie Phillips, Laura, Alana, Kayla)

I have clothes to wear

My pilgrim

Drew wanted to be a pilgrim while all the others chose to be Indians.

Kate reading

Chris says we need to get people to start writing books so Kate doesn't run out of reading material.  She eventually fell asleep on the couch.

Ben's dressing up

Ben was really busy putting on necklaces in Kate's room and when the one wouldn't fit over his head, he said "Look! I'm a princess!"

Messy

Dear grandmama - thank you for the yummy dessert.  Are you coming back to clean me up?

Making the best of our field trip not showing up

At stone mtn.  Ben's on my back.

Drew's latest book

Drew just finished this 64 page book in two days of reading with mommy.

At bedtime...

Daddy, can you tell mommy I love her more than a shooting star....which is actually an asteroid burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Ben's first hockey game

With grandmama

Drew says he is dressed up like a pirate

Kate helped.

Ben riding the carousel at the zoo

He loved being on the tiger.  He petted it and talked to it the whole ride.

Ben

Dressing up while we were trying to get him changed into his pajamas

Volcano after erupting

Dylan Kate and drew

Making playdough for a volcano

Ha ha ha...messy!