Thanksgiving

We got to start a few fun traditions this year, including a thankful pumpkin, and turkey pancakes for breakfast!

This year one of Emmeline's friends, Everett, and his family invited us over to their family's Thanksgiving. Emmeline and Everett had a blast together, and we enjoyed the company for the afternoon. It was nice to have somewhere to go since we couldn't be with our own families.

Emmeline enjoyed all of the Thanksgiving crafts we did leading up to Thanksgiving. She sure has become a craft fiend after not being so sure as a baby! Her turkey placemat from school is still one of her favorites!

Turkey pancakes for breakfast were fun in the making, but when I put them on a big plate instead of one of Emmeline's plates, tears resulted. Eventually, after disassembling the turkey onto her plate, she was happy to eat the turkey up!

Sally is one my best friends too, and we often see each other 2-3 times a week for Everett and Emmeline to play or go to story time, the museum, etc. Nick and her husband, Mike, also get along well, so when she invited us over to her parents' house for Thanksgiving we jumped at the chance. Emmeline and Everett loved playing together and eating at their own little table together. Emmeline devoured her feast of turkey (chicken, as she called it), sweet potatoes, buns, corn, and after her nap, chocolate pie.

Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of the adults together, but it was an afternoon of fun and good food. Her family is Cajun, so we had the most fun trying to decipher their Cajun french phrases with actual French phrases. Emmeline and Everett loved flying paper airplanes with Sally's brother after nap time! :)

 

One of my favorite things we started this year was our thankful pumpkin. Each night, every person would name one thing they are thankful for to add to the pumpkin. Emmeline caught on pretty quickly and did a good job naming things she was thankful for (often repeating the important family ones)! Bold ones are Emmeline's contributions.

Daddy, Mommy, our house, Grandma Julie, food, Grandpa Bill, Grandma Jackie, naps, Grandpa Dan, cool weather, Emmeline, medicine, Mommy friends, the weekend, Thomas, Badgers, tv, the gym, coffee, parks, Pinterest, owls, play-dough, donuts, friends, Eliza, clean water, school, bed, work visits, library, Skee, ducks, good deals, black cats, safe place live, dishes, Everett, laughing, raccoons, milk, free time, doctors, dinosaurs, warm soup, butterflies, socks, holidays, Thanksgiving, vacuum toy