So very THANKFUL for a truly fantastic Thanksgiving week,
full of family and friends and fun!
1)
We made our annual pilgrimage to the zoo on
Wednesday before Thanksgiving. (We go to
the zoo much more often, but we went last year the day before Thanksgiving, and
the zoo was almost deserted…it was great!)
The weather was beautiful, and we had a great time hanging out with our
animal friends. I love the simple
pleasures of a trip to the zoo!
2)
On Thanksgiving we worked with the kiddos to
make a “Thankful Tree”. The trunk and
branches were traced from their hands, and I had planned for the adults to
write what the kiddos were thankful for on leaves. Baby A insisted on writing her own
leaves! Of course we had to spell
everything for her, but she did an amazing job!
3)
We took the girls to the nicest restaurant in
town on Friday night. I was a little
nervous, but they did great! We all
enjoyed a delicious meal, and no one pulled the tablecloth to the floor…or set
a cloth napkin on fire…or broke any glasses.
Success!!!
4)
Daddy decided to work with the girls on phone
manners. They did pretty well with “This
is she,” and “May I take a message, please?”…but the hilarious thing was
hearing them try to make the “Brrrriiiing!” of a ringing phone. B, in particular, had the funniest guttural growl.
5)
The girls were acting very silly before
breakfast one day. Unsatisfied that he
wasn’t joining in the acrobatics in the den, B said, “Daddy, you need to do
something silly!”
6)
It’s amazing what a box (or two) of new crayons
can do for our household. The girls love
to color these days, but when they have nice sharp crayons, they can go at it
for hours, it seems! The girls invited
Daddy to join in the fun, and – much to their complete delight – he accepted
their offer. I had to laugh at the
colors he chose, but the girls didn’t mind a bit.
7)
The girls do their best hide-and-seek when Daddy
is orchestrating the game, but they were trying to play by themselves one
morning. They just can’t resist talking
to each other. B might be searching for
A: “Sissy, where are you?” And A would
say, “I’m not supposed to talk now!”
8)
The girls had their first pomegranate this
weekend. B liked it, but A was downright
smitten. She was double-fisting the
seeds as quickly as Daddy could clean them.
I think she would have eaten an entire pomegranate if we’d let her!
9)
We were reading in the den one day, and at
random, B said to me so sweetly, “Mommy, you made me feel better when you read
to me on my blanket when I was sick.” (I
am tearing up just typing that!)
10)
We bought “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” over
the weekend. After we read it through
once, B said, “You can read it again and then I’ll try to learn to read it.” I didn’t realize she made such a concerted
effort to memorize books…although she does do a crazy-great job!
11)
Daddy took the girls for a ride on Sunday
morning. They came back for a potty
break, and then we were all heading to lunch.
While I was with B in the bathroom, she told me very excitedly, “Mommy,
Sissy has a big story to tell you when you get in the car, about her living in
a pond!" Apparently they’d been making up
tall tales as they rode.
12)
And so many quotes!!!
B, after lunch out on Wednesday: “I can feel this going into my intestines.”
A, seeing B doing something she
wasn’t supposed to: “No, Sissy. Mommy and Daddy would not appreciate that.”
B, seeing
A practicing writing B's name: "You
are the sweetest sissy I have ever seen."
A, while
working on a puzzle of the United States, planning where she’d like to go: "I want to start in Louisiana, and then
go to New York, and then to Kansas, and then we'll come home to Kentucky. And
then we'll go to Washington, and California, and then Nevada. And then we'll
figure out what we want to do next."
A,
commenting on a broken hanger in my closet: “The hanger lay broken on the floor.” Her syntax (which I later recognized from a
book) cracked me up!!!
[Looking at my list, it’s very clear that Daddy was on
vacation for five days, huh?! We got to
spend a lot of great, relaxed family time together.]
...and now I'm so excited to kick off the Christmas season with my baby girls. I just know this is going to be the best year yet!!!
1 comment:
Lots of wonderful things going on - amazing how laps and bounds in development takes place when both parents are around for a while
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