To make up for my infrequent updates, I am going to give a giant brain dump all at once. Brace yourself!
The weather this fall has been even more of a roller coaster than usual, which made for an interesting Halloween. It has seriously gone from highs in the 30s to highs in the 70s at least 3 or 4 times since the beginning of October. So, the Friday before Halloween, we went trunk or treating with short sleeves. Then, 4 days later on Halloween, we were trying to put layers on the kids under their costumers so they wouldn't freeze. The kids decided to do a shared theme this year. Can you guess what it is?
Fletcher is part of the theme too, it's just hard to tell, because he wouldn't hold still for the photos. He is a rebel pilot, if you couldn't tell :)
Between Halloween and Thanksgiving, we spent a lot of time just running between all of the kids' activities. Barrett has hockey, Audrey has dance, both have piano, Barrett is starting basketball, Audrey's in the Christmas program at church and they're both starting up Lego League. I don't know what we'll do once Fletcher has activities to go to as well. I have to admit though, he is definitely dragged along to a lot of his sibling's activities, so I fully anticipate him to want to do all of them too!
In the midst of all of this, we had a couple of furry visitors for a few days. My parent's dog Bailey and their new puppy Jimbo came to stay with us. Barrett just loves that Jimbo will chase him around, so they found great joy in running around the back yard. That prompted Jimbo to choose Barrett has his favorite human, which then prompted Jimbo to insist on sleeping with Barrett. Don't worry, my parents were able to tear the two apart so Jimbo could still go home with them after their trip.
For Thanksgiving, we hosted at our house this year for the first time EVER! Billy did a great job roasting the turkey, and we had lots of other yummy dishes that our family contributed. It was also wonderful to be able to lounge around my own house after I had forced myself into a food coma.
After spending time at home, we made the trek to Greenville over Thanksgiving weekend. The unusually warm temperatures meant the kids had a lot of opportunity to play outside. It was a wonderful way for them to burn off all of the sugar they'd been consuming over the previous days.
They also got to see their cousin Macie for the first time in almost 2 months! It is so fun to see how much she has grown up over that time. I think she's still a little unsure about her cousin's though.
Oh, and I can't forget to add a story about Fletcher eating. As usual, Fletcher was making us laugh with is eating habits. "Pia" as he calls it is his favorite food, so he was ecstatic when we took a break from turkey this weekend. But, as usual, he insisted on not having his food cut up.
As stressful as the busy-ness can be, it's also a lot of fun. I can't imagine it any other way!
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