Blueberries and more

I gave Elliott frozen blueberries (that had been thawed) for lunch today.

 

He found them quite enjoyable.

He started lunch using a spoon but quickly realized that the finger shoveling method was faster.

 

I think his fingernails will return to their normal color in about 6 months.

Spencer is 6 years-2 months old today.  That's 74 months for those of you who were curious.  I wanted to take his monthly picture in his pumpkin sweater since this is the last month where it will be seasonably appropriate.....well, until next year, because I am sure it will still fit.  It's a 5T from Gymboree so he'll probably outgrow it when he's 11.

 

Elliott didn't need to be photographed, so of course he wanted to participate.

Can I interrupt myself for just a minute?  Every time we take pictures in the front yard, which seems to be pretty often lately, I have to crop out or edit out our address on the big door wreath.  I've googled our address with our city and our house is right there in the results, so I'm trying to be safe.

The front yard photography also keeps reminding me that I still want to paint the front door red.

 

This is the exact color I want.  Benjamin Moore- Pomegranate.

I used google maps to look at our house last week because we couldn't remember the name of the street to the north of us.  The image of our house was taken in April, 2011.  Sometime between then and when we first saw it in September, 2012 they painted the front door.  It used to be the same nice wood color as the inside of the door.  I wish they had just refinished it instead of slapping a coat of ugly beige on it.

 

The old door. 

 

OK.  Interruption over.  Back to the kid.

 

This is the winner!



Gobble 'Til You Wobble!

It's a Thanksgiving Tour!

 

I didn't decorate for Thanksgiving last year because we spent the whole month of November moving and unpacking.  It would have been ridiculous to have added turkeys and pilgrims to all of that chaos.

 

This year we have already decided that we are going to break protocol and decorate for Christmas the weekend before Thanksgiving.  This is due to a variety of factors, but mostly just because Thanksgiving is so late this year.  So, I wanted to get Thanksgiving up asap since it's coming down in a few weeks.

 

Thanksgiving is my tiniest sterilite container full of decorations.  I don't have much compared to other holidays, but probably have more than the average gal.

 

The entry way table.

The canvas print is new this year thanks to a birthday gift card to Hobby Lobby from Lauren (thanks Lauren).

My mom gave this turkey to my grandma in 1995.  I took it from her house over the summer when we were clearing stuff out.  I know she got it in 1995 because she used a black sharpie to write "1995 from Carol" (as well as her last name and address) on the bottom.  She also used the same black sharpie to color in the eyes leaving a scary, psychotic looking turkey.  I used a magic eraser to remove as much as possible and then painted over the rest.  He looks better, I think.

 

The bottom of the entry way table.

 

Inside of the front door. 

 

The little window by the front door.  I have the same clings in the bathroom.

 

Dining room 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Living room 

 

I think he's cute.

 

Countdown and turkeys that I colored last year. 

 More coloring.

 

I color a lot during speech therapy sessions.

 

Window in the kitchen.

 

Card on kitchen cabinets.

 

Glittery turkey on kitchen cabinets.

 

Turkey napkin holder.  I have turkey napkins waiting for later in the month.

 

Family room

And that's it.  

 

Three more weeks until Santa and poinsettias and snowmen.

A very late Halloween report

Geez.  Sorry for being such a slacker.  I took a little unintended blog vacation for the last week.  Sometimes I'm just too tired to wait for the photos to upload or to write coherent sentences so I put it off until tomorrow.  But then tomorrow turns into a week. 

 

Halloween 2013.  Let's recap.

 

I bought some super sugary cereal 2 weeks ago.  I figured we should start the day out right. 

 

Side note: I have never in my life eaten either of these cereals.  It was a first for all of us.  Except Michael.  Apparently this was a normal part of his childhood.

 

Side note #2: I took a 4-day break from my clean eating.  I consumed 6.8 pounds of sugar and approximately 50,000 calories in that time.  I started my 4th Whole 30 today.  My 1st Whole 30 was 30 days, my 2nd was 52 days and my 3rd was 51 days.  This one is only going to be 24 days.  Easy.

Elliott picked out and ate all the marshmallows first and then all the Frankenberries.  He has never had something so sugary in his life.  He was in love.

 

Spencer wanted to combine the flavors.

 

We took pictures before Spencer went to school.

I will never let Elliott forget that he was so difficult at age 1 that I didn't get any of the individual pictures of him that I would have liked to get during holidays (like Halloween) and yearly outings (like at the pumpkin patch).  I will remind him about it at his high school graduation and wedding and probably the birth of his children.

Both Michael and I worked on Thursday so there was a bit of scrambling to get home, buy candy, eat dinner and get ready, but finally we were  ready for some trick-or-treating. 

 

We did 3 streets in our neighborhood and then we were tired and done.  It was really fun, but 3 streets was enough.  This is definitely a good neighborhood for trick-or-treating.

 

Elliott didn't know what the candy was since we've never given him candy.  He really liked collecting it and wanted to hold it though.  He knew it was special.

 

He threw a huge fit when we made him put the candy down and go to bed.

 

This was from just Spencer's bag.  Think we got enough?

 

He liked the crinkly wrappers.

It was a really fun night.