November Recap

 I can't believe it's been a month since I posted anything.  Time is flying.  School, robotics, band, holidays, illnesses, etc.  Everything has been rushing life along.  Here's a recap of November:

We attend story time at the library every Thursday.  Peter loves going.  He loves the songs, the stories, and the librarians.  He knows all their names and they all know him. Libraries are both his and my favorites places.  How cool is it that libraries don't just have books, but also dress up clothes, toys, board games, and even make-believe houses with food/cleaning products/etc.?!  Peter decided to use a duster as a sword since the librarians wisely don't include weapons with their super hero dress-ups.  However, boys will make weapons out of pretty much anything.  He slew countless bad guys with that duster.

We visited the zoo on a particularly perfect fall day.  Warthog came along and was introduced to all the butterflies (and all the other animals all day long).  I don't know if I've mentioned it, but Peter is obsessed with having conversations with his toys, so he speaks to them and I do the toy's voices and speak back.  I was getting chuckles from other zoo patrons a lot that day as I spoke for warthog everywhere we went.

Soccer season ended.  Peter stopped loving it about half way through the season and then complained bitterly every time we went.  I'm really not sure why.  He could never give me a clear or consistent answer.  The only thing I could deduce was that he spent a lot of time standing around while the coach wrangled the other kids who could never seem to follow directions and always derailed the plans.  The girls were great but the other boys were always off in their own imaginary world.  Until the last day when they played parents vs. kids so I got to be on the field and he got a medal for participating and suddenly soccer was fantastic and he was so upset I hadn't signed him up for next season. Oh well.  We're going to try swim lessons and see how those go.

Fall is so incredibly beautiful.  We spent as much time as possible outside.  Peter is happiest in the basement with his legos, but anytime I can wrestle him free of them, I do and the woods are always the favorite spot to go.  This day we rode bikes and even Kelly got to come along.  It was perfect. 

Thanksgiving was great.  We invited over 40 people to join us at the church.  We invited anyone we could think of that might not have family around - missionaries, singles, newly married couples, empty nesters, etc.  It was a blast and everyone had a great time.  There was so much food!  Kelly made enough stuffing for an army and his turkey was fantastic.  I'm so lucky to have him or I could never have pulled this off.

Peanut came to visit again.  We had him for a whole week and he was so sweet.  I loved his warm little baby cuddles.  Didn't love how he woke me up every night, though.  I'm definitely not a dog person deep down. 

These boys.  Christian is full teenager and can be such a tormentor sometimes, but they are still such sweet buddies.

First snow of the year!  So fun to play in snow again!

The only time all month when they all did something together that I didn't initiate.  I had to document it, even if it was just a video game when we were trying to start dinner.

We're so excited for Christmas around here.  The decorations go up on Saturday!  Can't wait!