Thanksgiving Report

Tuesday: We washed some clothes and threw them in a bag.  Then we picked up each kid from school and drove off to NYC and NJ for Thanksgiving!

Wednesday: We ate our way around NYC. 

First Bagels by my sister's house.

  Then Cronuts.

 Amazing Pizza after a walk on the Highline

Then some Portuguese Pasteis de Nata

Later that night we had Chicken here, no photos though

Last was dessert ;) at the Milk Bar.  I can't find the photos from there, I'll get them in a bit...

 Greg and Parker had fancy ice cream, but Yoda, Mimi, Sonya and I custom designed our fancy cookie.  We were so full we waited until the next day to eat while we drove to NJ and my other sister's house for Thanksgiving dinner. 

 

 On the Highline

 

 Then Sonya lead us to see the Macy's Day Balloons being filled.  Can you see them in the back? 

Here's a few more close up...

 This one was the one Parker was most excited about but it was still flat!

DragonBallZ!

 Thursday: Yoda, Sonya and I thought we'd seen enough of the parade so we decided to stay at Sonya's to bake, pack, Yoda got to play with his new birthday Legos from Sonya.

 Mimi and Parker were rewarded with free swag from Netflix for going to the parade early in the morning with Greg. 

 Green Eggs and Ham! 

 By some miracle we had wonderful clear roads for our trip to NJ!

 The kiddos had lots of fun with cousin H and her new dog. 

 We went on a long walk after dinner. 

 I have another photo with everyone, I'll get to that...
UPDATE:
Here it is!

That night we drove all the way home so that Parker could work on Black Friday.  Phew!  What an awesome trip, so happy we could see family :)

Nice to know some things don't change

Mimi in a basket!

Some of Mimi-in-basket from the past...

2013

late 2008

 

early 2008

 

Happy Thanksgiving

While driving past a church with a sign that read, "Thanksgiving Worship Service..."
Yoda said, "Wait, they worship Thanksgiving?!?!"

Apples 2019

Yoda noticed that he has not picked apples as often as the older kiddos by the time they were 9.  So we felt guilty and took him apple picking a few weeks back...

It was a beautiful day and I'm glad we made it happen!

some kid thoughts...

Yoda, "Why are there no superheroes from the suburbs?"

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Parker goes to a school with no cafeteria, so we pack lunches and he's fine with that.

But occasionally he buys fast food down the street with his CREDIT CARD.  So, on those days instead of me asking if he has his lunch BOX, he said I should ask if he has his lunch RECTANGLE. 

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Back in Kindergarten, Mimi arrived excited for her Show-what-you-know conference with her soon-to-be-teacher.

recap:

She went to meet her teacher and walk around to get a feel for the classroom and school.  This day was called show-what-you-know, just a 20 minute conference with just her and her teacher.  When I explained what would happen that day, I neglected to say that the teacher would ask the questions and that Mimi would tell her the answers.
What ended up happening was Mimi marched in with her backpack full of school supplies, sat down, and started telling her teacher exactly what she knew!
Mimi:"There are different kinds of dinosaurs, bipods and quadrupeds.  Some dinosaurs are herbivores and some are carnivores..."

The whole story is in this link.

Even though it was 8 years ago, we retell the story often because it's so cute.

One day as we were retelling the story, Mimi asked sweetly, "How many dinosaurs did I GET to?"

Happy Halloween

 

 

 Parker was Kaiba Yu-gi-oh again this year.  

  Yoda was a Dementor from Harry Potter

Mimi was the grim reaper.  Her friends wanted to do something as a group, but she stuck to her guns on this costume idea.

Silly kiddos

Museum

Parker was in a play recently and it was so absurd!  It was called Museum, it was just about a day in a museum.  Parker had two parts, one as a silly guy who walks through and one as a museum guard. 

 He was pretty proud of that man-bun! 

Mimi and BBQ

Life skills!

Football

Yoda, "This must be an exciting game, look, dad's awake!"

Over the Summer, Part Two: Cousin Visits

We were lucky enough to see 3 sets of cousins in Ohio this summer...

Grandpa took everyone to a Clippers Game.

It was a pretty hot that day.  Greg's sister Adrianne, who is visiting from Texas where it's much hotter, noticed how happy everyone was.  And she mentioned that we must like summer in Ohio.  I hadn't thought of that before.  Winters are very difficult here with no sunshine, so people are excited to be outside and getting vitamin D on a summer day! 

Nana took everyone to the Science Museum and they all stood in the line to be shocked (Yoda is a little worried about the shock, he's playing with his belly button!)

(This video is about 13 seconds long, the shock is at the very end)

Giant checkers.

Mimi and her little cousin bond over My Little Pony.

Parker and Yoda bond with cousins over card games.

Nana and Grandpa sent them to laser tag.

Yoda introduced them to his fish. 

Mimi and H did quite a bit of baking. 

Parker still loves trains :)

Lots of fun with Nana's toys.  

Dress ups. 

More games.

And swings!