Thankful

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Mom and Dad came to town and the kids had a ball the whole time. Breakfast was brought to them each morning and two new people were there to listen to their every question and comment.

Thanksgiving dinner was wonderful. I made my best stuffing yet. We had dessert at Dad and Donna's. It was a full house!

The boys got to see Good Dinosaur. Freddie wasn't impressed, but they loved the treats. 

We swam and shopped. The men did projects around the house which included new lights in kitchen (which i love) and a new fan/light for the TV room, which they also centered. It's pretty incredible.

We miss them! 

Helper

She LOVES to help. I hope it lasts forever.

Cranberry Thanksgiving

We LOVED this book.

We are learning a (or is it "the"?) Doxology.

At the end of this week Cedrik said he didn't want it to end! Success! 

We learned about cranberry farms, made cranberry bread twice, conducted highly technical cranberry bouncing experiments, ate dried cranberries, drank cranberry juice, estimated the number of popcorn kernels on different sizes of pictures, proceeded to eat those kernels after popping, made silhouettes, sewed leaf garlands, acted out the story. 

It's weeks like these I'm happy we do school at home. It's also weeks like these that make up for our slower weeks. 

Snow (ish)

We had a skiff of snow two nights in a row. The boys were thrilled. Each morning they were out when the sun came up. Too bad it didn't last past 10am!

Native Americans

We've been studying the United States for awhile now. This past week we did Native Americans. They loved it. It was a more relaxed week too. Axes, feather hats, Pocahontas, John Smith, Jamestown, corn. It was fun- I only documented a small portion of the week.