Our Week

Our big project last week was getting Kessiah's pinata finished for her birthday party. (See post about Kessiah's birthday for more info)

We spent some time last week talking about Thanksgiving. I've even learned a few new things! For example, did you know that at the first Thanksgiving the children served the adults and had to eat last! The children also had to eat standing up, only the adults got to sit down! Kessiah and Jenessa are worried that I'm going to start some new traditions! As we were talking about the Indians one day, Sienna said "I a Indian and go to the candy party!" She was referring to Halloween when we went trunk or treating in the church parking lot. I thought that was pretty cute to refer to it as a "candy party" And now that our Halloween candy is gone, she thinks we need to go to another "candy party!"

Our fun science project of the week was measuring out the length of our intestines with yarn. Kessiah and Jenessa thought it was really strange that our long intestine is so much shorter than our small intestine and there was some discussion about the need to change the names!

One evening at dinner Logan was making quite a bit of noise while sitting in his high chair so Ryan put his finger to his mouth and said "Shhhh!" Logan copied him by putting his finger to his own mouth and blowing. He has done it several times since then as well (with encouragement). What a cutie and such a copy cat!

Our Week: Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins!

We carved our jack-o-lanterns on Monday. It was a bit early but it was the only free evening we all had together all week. We tried a few different techniques thanks to some kits I bought after Halloween last year. I really liked how Ryan's pirate ship turned out. Logan was pretty funny as we were carving. He was walking around with a scoop sticking it into the different pumpkins acting like he was helping us scoop out the pumpkins!

And of course...Halloween night we enjoyed the annual trunk or treat in our church parking lot. About halfway through our candy gathering Sienna told me that she "had enough candy" and wanted to go back and sit by Daddy who was passing out candy from our truck. I made her stick with us but she didn't go up to anymore people for candy. Ryan dressed up like a pirate and had a lot of fun passing out candy. He had these horrible looking fake teeth that made several children leary of him! (He even wore his costume to work that day!) The kids got lots of comments on their Indian costumes and several people complimented me on what a great job I did making them! Of course, I told them that it was my mom that did a great job (and she did!) Since everyone else in our family dressed up, I felt like I had to do something too! So, I put on one of my old lab coats from college and put one of the kids' play stethescopes in the pocket!

We also started swimming lessons this week...since there is only one more soccer Saturday and no more practices I figured we could handle it...plus I didn't want to lose the momentum that Kessiah and Jenessa had going this summer. Sienna was old enough to get into a session this time. She had a great time swimming in the pool before class started but she ended up sitting by my feet most of class because she didn't want to pay attention to the teacher. She kept wanting to "swim around in the pool" She finally joined her class at the very end when they took turns jumping into their teacher's arms in the pool.