Thanksgiving 2010

We drove up to Chilton, WI to Preston's aunt's place for Thanksgiving Day this year. Their colonial log house sits on a 5 arces with horses, chicken, geese, and turkeys. Yes, turkeys! We ate homegrown free range heritage turkey for Thanksgiving. Best turkey EVER!

Aunt Janet had three turkeys. One ran into the wood for the night the night before Thanksgiving and didn't return until the next day. One flew up to a tree and slept there for the night. Thankfully, one made it to the dinner table. LOL~ I guess turkeys were not stupid after all.

The boys finally got to meet the other side of the family. Meeting all the grand aunts and uncles could be overwhelming, but their favorite person that night was Preston's cousin, Caitlin. They called her "the red one"... she was wearing a red shirt that night. Go figure right?!? She took them to see the farm, collect the eggs, and feed the chicken and horses!!! They had a lot of fun :D

Being Thankful

I swear the boys are regressing before the baby even arrives. They've been more difficult, clingy, whiny the past few weeks, and it's absolutely driving me nuts. I'm trying my very best to think positive and be thankful despite on how they behave...especially on this thanksgiving season.

After all, they're behaving what a normal toddler would react to the changes of a new baby. I should be thankful that they're developing where they should be, and that means they're healthy. What more can a mother asks her? They're pushing every boundary and button, and testing my patience every minutes of their waking moment. It's so hard to be thankful with toddlers sometimes, but I should be thankful.

Yes, be thankful!

Homeschooling Week 8

After the '"Elizabeth" incident last week with Elias, it's time for them to learn to spell their whole name. They're tracing the letters in their names this week. We didn't quite make it to the last letter.

As for math, Elias and Micah can count from 1-10 by themselves now...only when they want to though. Toddlers! Anything above 10 is usually 11 or 14. Anticipating that counting up to 20 will take the rest of the year to learn.

The boys are also working on putting their favorite shoes, that is if you count Crocs as shoes, on the correct feet. Elias even attempts to put his sneakers on by himself. They are also really interested in daddy's "string" shoes. Perhaps their next pair of shoes will be laced! Mommy is wearing Crocs or slip-ons right now. Baby #3 doesn't like me bending down.

I have 8 more weeks, technically, before baby#3 arrives. It is time to prepare lessons ahead of time...should have thought of that earlier, plus I'm such a procrastinator. I hope I have enough time.

Follow Him

This week Bible Study is Luke 3:21-22 the Baptism of Jesus.

As I was explaining to Elias and Micah what Baptism was yesterday, Elias told me that "Gougou (that's him) follow Jesus." Aww...I prayed that the seed would continue to grow in his heart.

I asked Micah today after we finished with the Bible story if he's a follower of Jesus, he answered, "No." Then I asked him why not, he told me, '"Micah follow God." Awww...that just made my day even though he had be different this evening.

My boys might not fully understand what it means to be the follower of Jesus/God yet, but I know God is in their lives. And that's the best thing to know as a parent. We try to explain trinity to them, but this might be a little bit hard for them to understand now. But the time will come. I know :)

Halloween

I didn't grow up celebrating Halloween, so I wasn't planning on taking the boys trick-or-treating. Besides, they didn't need all those extra sugar nor I needed more candies around to attempt me. However, I had a lot of fun dressing them up the pass three Halloween :) This year, they were Nemos!

We went to Preston's parents' house, and let them pass out candies for grandma and grandpa yesterday. They were ecstatic! They saw people from afar, got excited, ran to the candy bowl for candies, and opened the screen door before the trick-or-treaters were on the front porch. Most of the trick-or-treaters were cute and non-threatening. One kid that came by was kinda scary though, and Elias froze. He had a nightmare last night, and it's probably from this. Despite of it, they had a fun day. One little girl even came back to tell me that "[my] boys [were] cute." She must had been no more than 4 years old. It was so funny.

Grandpa Pat even got them new toys! And if you must asked...they were cars. More to their collections. :)