Thanksgiving 2007

Thanksgiving Dinner 2007

Thanksgiving Oatmeal!

Could not resist posting this picture.  Matt and I LOVE when Ryan makes this face.  The boy has so many funny facial expressions!!!  He is just very expressive and knows how to get a laugh.  My sweet, sweet Ry guy.  If you look closely, you will see Sarah, the hermit crab, out of her shell on the blue piece of paper.  I hate to brag on my own pets, but she is the most social crab I have ever known!

Movie Night at the Wells' with the Brister boys.  We watched Meet the Robinson's and ate LOTS of popcorn (actually, only the Wells' ate lots of popcorn :))

Here we are halfway through Thanksgiving Day and it has already been wonderful.  This morning we all had some Thanksgiving turkey and then had fun watching the Macy's Day parade on TV, going for a walk, and gardening outside.  Thankfully I had done all my prep work during naptime on Wednesday so I had time to spend with the family this morning.  The only hard part of the day was keeping the kids from eating.  They are used to lunch at 11am so waiting another hour was difficult, but mommy was able to distract them.  We had a yummy menu of slow cooked turkey breast smothered with cranberry sauce, traditional stuffing, carrot souffle, wild rice cranberry bake, green bean amandine, and cranberry walnut bread.  We rounded it out with a ginersnap-pumpkin ice cream pie and pumpkin pie with whip cream.  Okay, I admit that the ice cream pie was not that great.  Matt told me not to do it, but I could not resist since it sounded delicious AND it was somewhat low in calories.  Even Madeline was not too keen on it and that girl has a SWEET tooth!  As I closed her door for naptime, she said, "Mommy, please don't ever make that crust again".  She was referring to the gingersnap crust on the pie.  I will make it up to my family by making them the most delicious apple pie this weekend.  From now on we will be sticking to the traditional apple and pumpkin pies at Thanksgiving!

We all had dentist appointments this week.  Poor Daddy has three cavities to be filled, but he has to wait until January 1. . .renewed FSA funds.  Madeline did GREAT.  This was her second time at the dentist.  Though all night she kept telling us that she did not like what the dentist painted her teeth with (it was a fluoride treatment).  What a cute and clever description.

Oh my, almost forgot.  We had to have the kissing conversation with Madeline and her sweet friend Chase yesterday.  Matt heard them upstairs playing and talking about kissing on the lips. Quickly, I called them down the stairs and told them that kissing is very special and that we only kiss people in our family.  Later that night Daddy told her that if any boy wants to kiss her, he has to first ask Daddy.  Madeline asked if even Grandpa Steve had to ask Daddy.  Very cute.  Needless to say, Mommy will follow Madeline and friends upstairs when they decide to play in her room.

Have not yet decided if we are heading out on Black Friday.  There is a great deal on a big George Forman grill and Mommy REALLY wants a big food processor since her blender broke yesterday.  We'll see. . .