Thanksgiving Blog
For Thanksgiving we ended up staying home and having a quiet, relaxed day. Andrew enjoyed some much needed time off work and spent most of his time with the girls. We had a small turkey breast roast and gravy with sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. The day after Thanksgiving we went down to Roseville for our traditional second Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. Grandma Sandy, Grandpa Tim, Uncle Lance, Aunt Barbara, Aunt Jenny, Devin, Sean, and Breanna were there, a smaller crowd than usual, making for a warm and cozy gathering. We spent the night and the girls had fun at the neighborhood park.
Before Thanksgiving, colder weather started to arrive and we've had a number of frosty cold mornings. The tomato plants in the garden have died, and some other tender plants have died or gone dormant. The leaves have continued to fall beautifully all around the yard.
We got back Cora's preschool pictures from CDL 2 recently. Cora has really been enjoying preschool a lot. She especially loves playing with Talia, Jessica, and Melissa, among others. Cora is very social and really enjoys all her friends there. But one of her favorite things to do is to play super heroes with Vincent. There are always so many fun things planned to do there and Olivia never wants to leave when we drop off Cora for the afternoon. There is a song that Cora learned there called "Slippery Fish" that she loves to sing at home and Olivia now sings and does the movements right along with her. Cora has learned a lot of new songs that I had never heard before and it's fun to see her try to teach them to Olivia. The themes lately have been harvest related. They grew pumpkins, beans, sunflowers, strawberries, etc. in a little garden plot and planters. They have tasted different apples and nuts, and have roasted pumkin seeds and made peanut butter. There are 2 class guinea pigs and there have been an assortment of different animals in class; frogs, spiders, earth worms, tomato horn caterpillers, chinchillas (a parent has a petting zoo), they even had some butterflies that emerged from chrysalises.