Kitchen Crafts

Ava decided the other day to do some "crafts." This was her idea and she did it all on her own. The crafts entertained her and Emet for a couple of hours one afternoon. It's so much fun to see her get creative and do things on her own without my prompting! I love it!

All the craft stuff is out!

Making cards...she also did her own hair, hence the clip in the front!

One of her products

She loves to cut!

In on the action too!

Growing Up Fast

Ava and Emet have both reached big milestones in the past two weeks! Emet gave up his "baba" (paci) and Ava has quit sucking her thumb! We celebrated by rewarding them both for these big events. They each got to choose what they wanted. Emet chose to get a new drum. It's an electric little drum pad equipped with drum sticks...he loves it! I'll post pics of him playing later. Ava chose to have her ears pierced. She has been talking about this for as long as I can remember and I have been telling her she had to stop sucking her thumb before she could get them pierced. A couple of weeks ago, on her own, she decided to stop. She's been wearing a sock to keep from sucking her thumb in her sleep. I'm so proud of my babies!

Getting ready for the big event

Marking her ears

Ready

It hurt, and she cried. But, once the pain wore off, she
loved her new earrings and has been showing them off!

Shopping Later

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We were thankful to have Don, Scarlet and Amy spend a week with us over Thanksgiving. It was great to have family up here and we so enjoyed our time with them! It was fun having Thanksgiving in our home and I was so thankful that Scarlet and Amy were here...there was no shortage of good food to eat! The kids had a blast and there was never a dull moment. There was always someone to play with!!!

Nana, Papa and our little football player

The kids helped Amy bake a cake!

Getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner

Emet saw the turkey and said, "look at the monster!"
He really thought this turkey was a monster!

All done!

I think this was Jon's first time carving a turkey!

Jeremy came over after he and Jon played in the Hope annual flag football game. They both had a blast playing football and were certainly ready for some good Thanksgiving food! We are thankful for Jeremy, his friendship and that he could spend Thanksgiving with us!

Ready to dig in

I think we all ate way too much...but it was so good!

Plymouth and Boston

We really enjoyed having Don, Scarlet and Amy up here for Thanksgiving. We had some fun traveling around while they were here. We made a day trip to Plymouth and also into Boston. We saw the Mayflower, Plymouth Rock, the kids ice skated for the first time and we loved seeing Boston decorated for Christmas. What a fun couple of days we had!!!

Amy, Ava and Emet on the anchor...Mayflower in the background

Plymouth Rock

Where the Pilgrims landed nearly 400 years ago...
It was fun to see a piece of history, but so cold that day!

Mayflower II
A replica of the original Mayflower

Plymouth Rock

Emet, Amy and Ava

Papa, Nana, Ava and Emet

Don, Amy and Scarlet

Our Family

Amy and Ava on the Mayflower

Worn Out!!!

Emet loves Mario at church. He was playing in the
band on Sunday and let Emet have a shot at the drums!!!

Going to Boston

Getting on the Train

Ice Skating at the Frog Pond

Amy and Jon took the kids skating.

Emet had a hard time staying on his feet!

Learning

Break for a picture with Mommy

Learning

Break for a picture with Papa and Nana

She got the hang of it...was skating on her own some!

He struggled!

They got quite the workout!

Public Garden

He was sooooo tired!

Quincy Market

Amy and the kiddos by the HUGE tree

Beautiful

Gotta love Emet's Spiderman beanie...he loves it!

All bundled up and ready to head home