Thanksgiving Break & Trip to KC

 Thanksgiving break came. We did some actives to keep us busy. Control cornucopia, making note of all the things we do have control over. 

This photo depicts how close we are at ALL TIMES! Not sure why everyone has to be standing in one area at the same time... but that's life right now. 

Wednesday November 25th we decorated a Gingerbread House. 

Thanksgiving day we laid low and cooked a Thanksgiving dinner. The kids helped!

We made fresh cranberry sauce, the kids cut up the celery for the stuffing and we cooked a turkey. 

 

I let the girls pull apart the wish bone...

Of course it didn't end well and Mary's feelings were crushed. 

The weather was gorgeous for Thanksgiving day, we spent time playing outside. Mary... still pouting. 

Oh and Emma had finally figured out riding without training wheels earlier in the month on November 15th! YAH! She loves being the the bike now and pulls it out almost daily. 

 

We got lights on the fence row and our penguins out. Here are the chickens pecking away in the y ard. 

Some playtime with the neighbors, this is Talas and the girls. 

AND Elf showed up the day after thanksgiving, safe traveling with his mask on. 

Saturday morning we got up bright and early to drive up to Kansas City. I had a child yoga class to team teach to finish up my child yoga teacher training certification I'd been working on since August. My course instructor was based in Kansas City and I had two class Saturday morning to help teach. We got to see the beautiful colors of the sunrise. 

While I was in my classes Kyle and the kids explored KC, went to a couple of parks, took a drive out to arrowhead stadium for Thomas to get a nap in on the highway driving. 

They picked me up at 12:15 and we had BBQ lunch, both the girls have requested this place numerous times so we'll probably have to go again next time we're in KC. Then we went to another park. 

And took the drive back home. We were a little worried about Harpo while we were gone because I woke up at 3:30am to messes on the carpet. And sure enough we came home to diarrhea accidents ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE! He wants to make sure we never travel outside of Wichita again :-( 

Sunday, November 29th we decorated the tree and began to get our Christmas decor out. 

This was Monday night... Thomas was so cute, we had read and I said goodnight (remember the others are all gone at BSF on Mondays) I told him he could look at his book for a while then to turn his light out while I went to brush my teeth and take a shower. I came back to find him conked out, light still on :-) He was a tired boy! Naps are getting hard. He still needs one but fights it so hard. We are striving for an every other day nap at this point. 

Girls Quarantine, Chickens and FIRST EGG!

Isaac and Thomas got to return to school on November 2nd. However that's when the girls' two weeks started. It was nice to have a couple kids off at school. My quarantine also ended at the end of that first week of November and I was able to return to teaching my classes at the Y on November 8th. 

Taught the girls how to weave pot holders :-) 

Spent some time playing with the chickens. 

Made a trip to Trader Joe's. I know I know the girls are suppose to be quarantine. But at this point we new were were CoVID free and I knew we weren't spreading anything. 

Silly birds, wanting to get inside. 

Then we got our FIRST EGG! On November 17th Lila laid her very first egg! We were so excited! EGG-CITED, lol. She has been laying one egg almost everyday since. 

The girls got to return to school on November 16th, ONE week before Thanksgiving break. They extended Thanksgiving break for the full week due to staffing issues and the impact of corona. 

Tuesday Thomas and I went to the Library. The library isn't open for browsing, they have all the isles taped off, but we can go in to check books out, place them on hold online or the librarians will fetch anything on the shelf we want. This was the last day we got to go into the library, since then the building has been closed and they are only doing curbside service so you have to call in and they bring it out to the car. 

Harpo is still about the same. Doing well on his meds, still in a diaper which at this point is just how it is we don't plan to take him out of it, although it's rare the diaper is wet. 

Monday nights the bigger three kids and Kyle all go to BSF. This is Thomas and I's time to play... well get ready for bed. But that time by ourselves has become special. Even though we have day time together something special about night time and just being us. He helps me with chores and likes to dance to Justin Bieber in my room. :-) This was November 23rd.