Thanksgiving Feast

Well, today wraps up what has been quite the week. It really started on Tuesday with Thatch's Thanksgiving Feast at school and ended today with me making some lackluster cookies and doing laundry. How about a lame finish. Anyhoo, let's do this post day by day.

Tuesday: Thatch's Thanksgiving Feast

Thatch's classroom had a Thanksgiving Feast with 24 little Kindergarteners taste testing the usual fixings. They prepped by making Pilgrim, Indian and Lady Pilgrim hats. I remember making those as a kiddie and they were still as adorable.

Thatch and his friend Cooper. Stinking cute.

Cooper managed to sweet talk himself into a plate of goodies too.

Here is the whole gang.

After the feast the whole group went to the carpet for story time. Notice anyone in the group? Which one of these is not like the other...

So we wrapped up Tuesday with a swim lesson...did I mention Thatch has excelled at swimming this past session? He's moved up to Level 3 and is determined to be on the swim team. In the past he has been adamant that he "Will not walk the plank" (that would be a diving board for ye land lubbers) but this lesson he decided that he was just going to skip the 1m board all together and advance to the high dive. After screaming at him (like a crazy woman, might I add) from the balcony to get off the high dive (he was 3/4 of the way up) he came down. He was pissed at me, I could sense the waves of indignation rolling off him from the stands, but acknowledged that he should go on the 1m board first. He walked half way out onto it and turned right around and said, "No thank you" to the teacher. Yeah, that's what I thought. We are going to have to go spend some alone time at the pool for him to actually walk the plank I believe.

Wednesday: Grandma Jonesie's Arrival

Before Jonesie's arrival I made some pies. They weren't the best but I've had worse. Thatch made some stuff with the leftover crusts. 

Hard at work.

Train...or Wagon Train? This reminds me of the Oregon Trail.

 Darn me, I didn't manage to take a picture of Jonesie this whole day. I did get this from Family Night though...

Harpie and her boyfriend, Gunner. He's kissing her hand and saying "Hello my Lady, my you look lovely today." True story.

 Thursday: Thanksgiving :)

Jonathan was working so we had a late dinner. Honestly, it was kind of nice to relax in the morning. I did all the prep after we watched the Macy's Day parade. The boys loved watching it and Harpie slept until 12 (because she's awesome) so really, the kids were a piece of cake.

Jonesie ran interference with Coopie. They built cars and ships while I cooked. I say she had the hard job. Look at Cooper in this photo, his face is priceless.

 Have I mentioned lately that Coopie LOVES to run around the house naked? He takes his diaper off, throws it away on his own and runs around comando all day long. He leaves random puddle around the house, mostly in bathrooms. Holidays are not an exception to these practices. Only, on Thanksgiving, he decided to poop on the floor. Twice. Awesome. But I digress...onto the feast.

Here's Thatcheroo waiting for Dad to show up. I let him eat on my wedding china and with my crystal champagne glasses. He was pretty into it...

...And insisted on cheers-ing about 100 times.

No worries, it's sparkling cider. Well, Thatch's is...Jonesie was running interference if you remember correctly, so hers was a well deserved glass of wine.

After dinner we had some dancing while we watched Polar Express.  We ALWAYS watch the Polar Express after Thanksgiving dinner, on this night though we didn't start it until 7 so the menfolk were up late watching while we put the tree up.

Grandma Jonesie was rewarded with all her hard work watching the kiddos with Harper saying "Grandma". It was clear as a whistle and adorable!!

Friday: NO WAY would I go shopping with kids.

 We toyed with the idea of going Black Friday shopping but it was quickly dismissed. So instead we watched Oceans, then we watched Brave, then we watched Mary Poppins, and then we watched Nanny McPhee...you get the idea. This was also day 2 of Thatch in his too small Polar Express jammies from last year.

Saturday: MWOW 

We hadn't been to a Museum With Out Walls event in a LONG time so it was fitting that Grandma got to go with us. I thought I had charged the camera but I'm missing an integral piece of the charging and it apparently didn't take. I snapped about 5 pictures before it was game over and had to use my phone. Sorry for the cruddy photo quality...

This is an antic from Buddy the Elf. He seems to have a mischievous streak in him this year. 

Here we are, playing with Legos. Stuff we have at home. Awesome use of time guys.

Harpie and Grandma Jonesie making googly eyes at each other :)

And playing with Trains, yet another thing we have at home.Sigh.

Here's Coopster balancing. He's quite advanced in his gross motor skills actually. 

Okay, this is kind of embarrassing but really funny. Backstory: My Dad and Jonesie usually take us grocery shopping on base when they visit...So the boys were playing groceries and in line to check out and Thatch looks up at Grandma Jonesie and said "You can pay for these, okay Granmda Jonesie!" Oy Vey, the things kids pick up.

This is a new exhibit, Thatch had a good old time dismantling this computer. I have an old Dell that may be dissected as soon as I get some old pictures off it.

Here is Coopie playing with the Balloon Fan thingy. 

Oh those sweet little faces! He's shouting "WOW!!!!"

Here are a couple of videos of Coopie from the MWOW too :)

Shortly after this we headed home for naps and then back into town to drop Jonesie off (sniffle). We had a really nice, relaxing visit. Don't be too sad though, she'll be back for Christmas in 30 days! 

After Jonathan came home we were sitting down for dinner and Coop decided he was done, and then took off his diaper and started to run around. Next thing we know Thatcher is yelling "MOM, COOPER IS POOPING AGAIN!!!" It was wonderful though, because he was aiming for the potty (yes, I mean aiming because he wasn't sitting, it was more of a squat over the pot) and the poop went in! We had a major Poopie Party and candy was had by all! It really was quite funny, wish you could have been there . Especially for clean up. ;)

Sunday: Funday

Today was my day to make cookies for church so I tested out a new recipe. Cooper didn't complain, but that's not saying much. It wasn't great so back to the drawing board! If it wasn't my day to bring cookies I probably wouldn't have gone though, it was -25 out at our house when we left. Sheesh. We went though and I listened to an amazing sermon about being thankful and all that jazz. It was totally what I needed (plus an hour with out kids, that was nice too). Here's the one sentence that the whole sermon was based off of:

Let your lives overflow with thanksgiving for all He has done. Col 2:7

Sometimes I may sound snarky and unappreciative of the wonderfulness of my babies and this really helped me gain a little perspective. So my kid pooped on the floor. Big Deal. At least he's healthy and has a sense of humor. I really am thankful for all that I have and all that Jonathan does to provide for us. We are lucky and graced with love.

Oh, Buddy decided to take a relaxing day to himself too. That crazy Elf.

And on that note, I bid thee farewell. My monkeys are all down and I've my favorite show to watch, in peace and quiet.

Love to you all, whom I am most thankful for!

S