Happy Thanksgiving!!

I just wanted to tell everyone to have a Great Thanksgiving!!! And for those going shopping on Black Friday, I hope you score some good bargains!!

Madison's Thanksgiving Feast

The preschool where Madison goes (and Justin went to last year) does a Thanksgiving Feast the week of Thanksgiving. The children make costumes and are either Pilgrims or Indians.... Madison's class were Indians. The children come in one at a time with their teacher and get to cut a piece of turkey (with the help of their teacher, of course) then they get to sit down and eat. Then they all sing songs once they are done eating. Here are two pics of Madison.

Our New Bird!!

Some of you may already know we pre-ordered a Congo African Grey bird back in September. The bird hadn't even been hatched yet and the bird store (actually the owner's son goes to school with Madison) would call us when they got birds in. Well, today we got the call that they got 4 African Grey birds in and to come pick ours out. We went to the bird store and picked out our bird and we find out Monday if it's a boy or a girl. Here's a picture of the bird. Its only 4 weeks old.

Once we find out the sex, we can start thinking of names. So far the kids have come up with: Princess, Cutie Pie, Thomas (Justin thought of this, but we already have a cockatiel named Thomas), and Chica.

Justin Lost His FIRST TOOTH!!!

Justin has had a 'wiggly' tooth since his last denist visit in September, but the past few days he's really been playing around with it and trying to loosen it so it would fall out. Today, during Karate, I kept seeing Justin with his hand in his mouth and at first I thought he was biting his nails.... later he told me his tooth was REALLY wiggly. I checked and it was literally hanging by a thread. When Bryan got home, I helped Justin get the tooth out. Justin was so happy that he was jumping up and down and clapping and he kept saying that he was a big boy now. So, I took a picture of him showing his new space in his mouth and of the tooth itself.

What have I been up to lately? Well, I volunteered to make some things for Justin's Holiday Bazaar. So far I have 3 scarves done and I'm on my 4th which is actually going to be a ruffle scarf. Speaking of which, I made a ruffle scarf for my Mom's Birthday (which is today). She saw a ruffle scarf in the Target flyer a few weeks ago and I was able to find a crochet pattern online. So, I made one in red (of course since it's her favorite color) and black. Here are pics of the scarf.

Once I get some more things done, I start posting pictures.

Oh and Justin had school today after being off for a week, and he got on the bus just fine. Actually, he ran to be the first one on the bus.

Halloween & Carving Pumpkins

I'm alittle behind on posting pics so here are the pictures of the kids pumpkins they carved a week ago and the pictures from yesterday.

Here's the pumpkin Bryan carved for Madison. We had patterns and each kid picked their own.

Here's the pumpkin I carved for Justin. It's suppose to be a wolf.

Here's a pumpkin that Justin did on his own. I had a kit that had pieces like a Mr. Potato head that you just stick in the pumpkin.

Here are all the pumpkins plus one that Madison painted.


Here are both kids in their costumes in front of Justin's school. Madison was a princess and Justin was Optimus Prime from the Transformers. Madison had a crown, but I think she wore it all of 10 minutes before she complained it was hurting her.

Here's Justin in his parade at school.

Here's Madison in her parade at school. It's hard to pick her out, but she's in a brown jacket and her costume (it was cold at 9:30am when they did her parade). It was a mad house because unlike Justin's parade where they all go around the school and they put up orange cones for the parents to stand behind... her parade is in the small parking lot of the preschool and they all stand in a circle. Not to mention parents were jumping of front of others trying to get pictures.

Here's the kids with their friends who live next door.