Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends and family! It should be a good one this year. We’ll at a friend’s house helping them eat their 27 pound turkey. We’re bringing a couple pies, a side dish, and whatever else we have time to make today.
We have tons for which we are thankful, mostly our wonderful little kids. Who would have thought ten years ago I would be raising two small people. I think we’ve got ourselves good ones; they’re smart, cute, fairly well-behaved, healthy, funny, sweet children. I don’t think I’d be who I am today if they weren’t around, not that I’d be in a gutter, drunk off my butt, or anything like that, but they sure have changed the person I am.
Mason had a death-wish yesterday. He was carrying around Daisy. You don’t carry around Daisy if your name is not Violet. Luckily for Mason she did not see him do such a thing. He’s been a bit droopy this week, has a bit of a cough that wakes him up at night. Everyone (for the most part) seems to have dodged this one, we’ll see in a couple of days.
Violet had a birthday party for Daisy the other day. They had birthday cake (a granola bar with a candle in it), sang the birthday song, and played party games. Violet wanted to play pin the tail on the donkey. Colleen went in to the bedroom, got on the computer, and found a pin the tail on the donkey game she could print out on the printer. While Colleen was in the bedroom, Violet drew this:
Notice the face:
Notice the tail (including the pin):
She sings the ENTIRE alphabet song it, it is too cute for words. She sings along to some of the music Colleen and I like, namely “Hiroshima” by Ben Folds. She “reads” along to books with me, namely “I Went Walking” by Sue Williams, as witnessed here.
We certainly hope you have a great turkey day!