Fall Fun

Dear Kids, 

The weather has been absolutely too beautiful to stay indoors, so I decided to make you guys an outside activity table out of PVC pipes and an old under the bed box. The first trial, Nathan and your friend played outside for an hour! That evening Hannah got to try out the box and played for a good 30 minutes before dinner was ready. 

The trip to getting the materials was interesting. I had a list and I budgeted 20 minutes in and out, including a potty break, let's just say we returned to our car an hour later, having visited the potty 3 times (and the PVC pipes are at the farthest back corner of the store). 

For a few days the weather was a bit on the wet side. We still went out to play/go on walks and Hannah, you were especially excited to wear your thrift store find: rain boots. In fact, you want to wear them all the time now. 

 One rainy evening, we made our own pizza. This is pretty much the easiest meal ever. Naan bread, pasta sauce and cheese. Bake in the oven and voila! Pizza.

 Hannah, your drawings are starting to become a bit more detailed. You are very good with drawing little things and often, your paper is filled with little scribbles, as opposed to large strokes.

 You continue to love helping out in the kitchen. Sometimes I don't have too much for you to do, so you just grab things on the counter (or the entire utensils drawer underneath) and make something creative. Like a birthday cake.

 Or a hamburger...

 But when you are given a task, you happily abandon what you were doing to help out. Sometimes this involves stuffing mushrooms,

 or shaking chicken. You love to help out in the kitchen and I love spending the time in the kitchen with you.

Something exciting happened today. We received our new dining room/gaming table that we ordered over a year ago.

It was pretty exciting as you two watched the strong guys (who knew a lot about transformers) unload the table from their truck.

 You guys stood in awe as it was being unpacked.

 And after it was all set up, both of you got to test out the side tables...perfect for kids to eat dinner. Easy to clean off too!

 This past Saturday, Daddy's work hosted a fall festival. It was a lot of fun because we got to see where he works,

 play with some of the staff...

get balloon ray-guns,

 eat foot-long corn dogs and funnel cakes,

popcorn, cotton candy, play carnival games, and have snow cones. I was quite impressed with the whole carnival and I'm sure it created lots of misconceptions about what Daddy does at work.

 Last week we met up with Hannah's God-parents for lunch to celebrate your baptismal birthday. You always love to see your God-brother, but when you guys see each other, you are always so shy towards him. It's cute once you guys warm up to each other though.

 Besides loving singing, cooking in the kitchen and playing with babies, you love looking at your reflection in the tub faucet. It's so cute to watch you make silly faces only to see even sillier reflections.

You also like to line things up. Like babies. 

 And card games, and I've also seen you line up things like blocks too, but I never thought too much about it until Daddy noticed this trend.

Well, we have an exciting day tomorrow, Nathan, you will be performing in your first ever school performance. You will be a pilgrim and I hear you sing pretty loud in class. You have requested that we sit in the front row, so we will do our best to meet your request.

We also have Thanksgiving coming up and this year we'll be staying put and having people come over to our house to celebrate and give Thanks.

I am Thankful for the time I get to spend with you two.

Love,
Mommy