Happy Thanksgiving

First, please let me apologize because it's been almost 2 months since I last posted. I just got out of the habit of blogging. I still took pictures, but never got around to posting them. So I will try to catch you up on everything ....


Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Ours was very busy - lots of driving - down to Chattanooga and back; then over to North Carolina and back. I took over 200 pictures in 3 days. I promise to post those this week.



It was very cold in North Carolina - we even played in the snow! But unfortunately, now I think we are paying the price for it. Luke has a cough and a very snotty nose. For me, it's my throat - a thousand tiny razor blades and an all-over body ache. Not good. I don't have time to be sick.

Luke's School Program

They did a little Thanksgiving program at school. All the classes had a different song to sing.

Just ask him to sing either of his songs for you ... he knows them very well.

(Sung to The Farmer in the Dell)...

"Thanksgiving time is here.

Thanksgiving time is here.

Gather 'round and share the feast.

Thanksgiving time is here."

(Sung to Row, Row, Row Your Boat)...

"Snowflakes are falling down,

Falling on the ground.

Hurling, tumbling, (something he can't say or I can't understand)...

Falling on the ground."

But what I find hilarious... as you'll see all the kids have pilgrim hats on but Luke refused to take his toboggan off. So he's the only kid dressed for winter. Everyone else is dressed for Thanksgiving.

Halloween

Last year after Halloween, I bought a pirate costume at Old Navy for 75% off! I was so proud of myself. I stuck it in the closet ... and then nearly forgot about it this year. As Halloween was approaching, Luke was getting the usual question, "What are you going to be for Halloween?" I tried preparing him, telling him that he was going to be a pirate. But he would always answer the question differently, sometimes saying he was going to be a scary monster. Whatever.

On Halloween morning, we were getting ready for school, and we'd had the pirate costume on for a total of 60 seconds before he wanted it off. (Good thing I only paid about $4 for it)!! He says he wants to wear his Woody costume. Rewind a couple of weeks, we were at a children's clothing sale and I saw 2 costumes - Woody and Buzz - for $2 each. I thought that would be fun to dress up in and wear around the house. I never dreamed he would want to wear it for Halloween. If I'd known that, I would have gotten him the accessories to go with it - a cowboy hat, maybe a horse on a stick, etc. So anyways, he wore Woody to school and then over to my office to trick or treat there. By the time we got home, he wanted to be Buzz. So we put the Buzz costume on to walk around the neighborhood in. (I never got a picture of him in the pirate costume or the Woody costume - oh well).

So in one day, the kid wore 3 different Halloween costumes. I resisted the urge to buy a Halloween costume on sale after Halloween this year since who knows what he will want next year! Instead the day after Halloween, we were at WalMart and I found these Batman pajamas, a mask and gloves, all for less than $12! He wouldn't take them off for the rest of the weekend.

"I'm Batman!"