update

So, I said that I would update of our Thanksgiving weekend earlier this week and then I went back to work and was busy with the kids and next thing I know it's the following weekend, and now into the next week.... How quickly it all went by! Anyhow, here's a little update.



Grandad came down to visit us from West Virginia on the Friday after Thankgiving. I made the Thanksgiving meal Friday, though it was somewhat downsized that what i would have liked to make. Grandad and Dave spend the weekend watching football (and West Virginia stomping on UConn!) and discussing politics and biblical principles (very exciting)(well, it was mostly just Dave and I sitting there listening while Grandad talked us to oblivion). Grandad took us out for dinner Sunday afternoon, and then Monday we took the boys to school and Dave and Grandad got to spend some grand/father/son time together. It was fun watching Grandad interacting with the boys, and how proud he was of them. It's always so nice to have family visiting.

Seth really enjoyed having Grandad here. He got lots of tic-tacs and treats. On Thanksgiving he went around to told everyone Happy Halloween. I think he was hoping he'd get some candy instead of Turkey. Anyhow, lately he's been really into SuperWhy....a relatively new show on PBSkids. It's about Superhero kids who save the day by jumping into story books and changing the words in the story to make a different outcome, and they collect letters to put a word together in the end and spell it. It's a very low-budget show, but Seth is SO loving it. We've been playing Superwhy games on pbskids.org and he's learning to use a mouse. Tonight we pretended to jump into a book before bed. We pretended we were in the woods going to take cakes and pies to Grandma's house. We saw a wolf and Mommy was SO SCARED! Uh oh! But Woodcutter Seth scared him away! It was so fun to see him so excited about learning the sounds the letters make, and reading books. I get to go to my first parent-teacher conference tomorrow morning, and I'm excited to hear what they have to say, find out who his friends are, his favorite things to do, etc.

John is growing too! That first molar is coming in......though it's taking for-ev-er to come in. Poor baby :-( He's so close to walking it's not even funny. He stands up by himself and tries to take a step or two. If he's holding my hand or walking behind the push-walker he's SO FAST. He eats! If I have food in my hands he wants it. With all those teeth he can handle more then your average 9 month old. He really likes spaghetti sauce and goldfish crackers.

I have been busy. Mainly just chugging along between work and home, home and work and the occaisonal trip to the store. I feel like I barely have time to do anything to get ready for Christmas. I have SO much less time now with 2 children. I just finally took the boys for some portraits yesterday. (an interesting adventure).

Saturday we spent the morning at the park and then went to McDonalds for more indoor playtime. After a great nap it was back outside to play with Gabriel . Gabriel's mom got out the leaf-blower and blew together a big pile of leaves. All the boys, even John had a blast in it. Then later we rented Ratatouie...or however you spell it, and then called it a night....for everyone. Saturday was all about the boys, so Sunday was a nice day for ME, sort of. Church was GREAT. I got a nap (angelic ahhhh) and we relaxed at home.

Anyhow, I think that's it.