Thanksgiving

Hope you had a fantastic thanksgiving! We were over at my parents and my mom put out a real nice spread, and the contributions by others were tasty! Thanks b for pecan pie, my fav! The kids were I think too excited to eat, they had a lot of juice from what I could  tell ( they don't get this at home or daycare) it was real good to see people we took the kids to the park near our house, set off memories from childhood playing with Krissy...Kay brought a baby doll with and spent the whole time wrapping and rewrapping her baby in blankets. Levi spent the whole time trying to get his daddy to chase him. Then because we think he was getting sick, Levi slept from 4 to the next morning (most ever?!)

Thankful for...
My nice and loving family growing up  - my mom, dad and 2 sisters...
My wonderful husband and best friend...
My two kids who are so delightful and fun...and healthy!
My considerate and welcoming loving in laws
My coworkers who treat me like a person and not a cog in the wheel,
My job that continues to be busy in our slowest season
Fridays with my kids to myself
A life that is not boring but is still predictable enough to  daydream
Holiday music!
Cooking yummy treats in our warm kitchen
You coming over to visit please?


Last night was my dads 60th birthday. Was fun to have pizza and hang out. Was worried about Levi because he puked at lunch but he held up fine since then. We were going to go swimming but had to make other plans since of the lunchtime incident. (kay had trouble understanding the change of plans) Once the ball came out, he became animated! Kaylee loved putting on a show and singing her teacher like songs to everybody. She sang , " the a says ah, the a says ah..every letter makes a sound the a says (look to Levi to finish)"...and on and on. Very cute! It turned out to be a fun night, better than any 15 year reunion would have been (blah! Missed it without one regret)

Sorry no blogging in a while! So busy all the time!
Hope you understand!
Take care all, love ya and give a call anytime to catch up!

Halloween and singing songs

Levi has been singing songs and it doesn’t do it justice to say simply that it is the sweetest thing I ever heard (besides Kay doing the same at that age). His voice is soft, so little, high while still being boyish. His words are trying to get it right but sometimes he messes up and says the wrong words or simply says something that rhymes and replaces the words but in the melody. His pronunciation is a bit off in spots… it’s so cute. Kaylee has told him a couple times it’s wrong, don’t sing it and I pipe in and defend him saying he won’t get it right unless he practices and that she should sing along to help him learn it. They sing together. He’ll start singing and get tripped up and she knows (more than anyone what he’s trying to sing) and then chimes in getting him to sing it a lot better…so super sweet!

 

Songs he likes:

“ABC’s”

“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”

“What do you do with a scurvy pirate?”

“Happy Birthday”

“I’ve got everything that I need” (not sure if this is a Kaylee-invented song or not)

10 little Monkeys swinging on the tree

 

I need to record and post a video of this super-cute singing. I tried to figure out how to record it this morning to no avail.

 

Update on Halloween:

Eric made a very scary (very tall) costume and the kids were too scared to go out trick-or-treating with him so he ended up leaving it at home by the door as a decoration. Tha trick-or-treaters liked it. I even think I saw a few not come to the door because they were too scared…anyways, it was Levi’s first time trick-or-treating and he did great. He didn’t even need to be carried! He said “trick-or treat” and then would take the candy saying “1” and look up at the person and reach in and say “2, please?” Eric said this made many a person melt a little bit for our little cutie. He was probably one of the youngest kids out there without being a carried infant. Last night was a nightmare in terms of sleep, I got (we got?) woken up at least 3 times by each kid and then at about 5ish I just gave up on getting any sleep and was up for the day. Thank goodness I have off from work tomorrow.