Thanksgiving

"We are thankful for turkey legs and fish."

We're also thankful that Aunt Erin posed so nicely in the car so that I could take that photo. :)

Auntie Ericka

So, Miss Ericka, you will likely clobber me for posting this picture, but it's really cute. Auntie Ericka came for a visit - mostly to surprise Auntie Erin at her engagement party. The upshot for Drew was that he got special time with both of them and also managed to talk Ericka into reading some books.

During this visit we also all went to see Madagascar II which was a huge hit. In this house, it's known as the "Move it Move it Movie" and arriving home we promptly listened to that song LOTS of times!

What have we been up to?

What busy people we must be that I have completely ignored the blog. Well....it's more like a new Facebook addiction! (Dare I speak its name!)

I will try to post all of our activities in chronological order...

First thing first - Our friends the Petersons came for a visit

Favorites

Following Claire's lead, I decided to ask Drew (now that he's 3) what his favorite things are:

Favorite color: Red
Favorite number: One
Favorite toy: Bobcat
Favorite place to go: Museum
Favorite food: Cake
Favorite game: Hi Ho Cherry-O
Favorite thing to wear: Pajamas
Favorite thing to do at school: Play on the slide
Favorite animal: Tiger

I might also add a list of favorite artists to this. Erik and I have been playing a lot of different music around the house and here are the artists that Drew likes the most so far: Apocalyptica, Amy Winehouse and Elmo. His favorite song is the "Move it, Move it" song.

Weekend Fun

Some pics from last weekend...
The Fitchburg Firehouse had an open house and we got to climb in all of the vehicles there. We also took a trip downtown and went to the Children's Museum.

Chinese Food Good Luck Fortune

Last night we got Chinese Food and here is how that went:
Drew: What's that?
Me: It's a fortune cookie (aside "crap, why didn't I hide that")
D: I want to have it
M: After dinner
D: I want to have it now
M: Eat some dinner first and then you can have the cookie
D: But I want to have it now
M: It's for dessert, you eat it after dinner
[enter dad]
Dad: Drew, eat at least some rice first and then you can have the cookie
D: No, I want the cookie now!
Dad: OK, here's half the cookie - you get half now and then the rest after you eat your dinner
[can you see where this is headed??]
D: I want more cookie
M: Eat your dinner
[Drew eats one grain of rice]
D: I wanna be all done - it's time for my other cookie
M: That's not dinner, please eat more
D: I want my cookie
M and Dad: OK Fine! Just eat the cookie!
...
M: Wait - what was your fortune? "Assert yourself. You have the power to get what you want."

Sunday at the Farm

Last Sunday was a day to take Drew and his friend Ava to the farm. (You can go to her blog to see pictures of us from Anne's camera.) It was the "Fall Festival" there with everything you would imagine for a farm fall fastival. Lots of things to do and things to pet and ways to clean your hands. (Love it that Purell is now a household name - if only healthcare workers were as good...) There were a couple of "scary silos" too that we thought about going in. When we saw 7 year olds scream their way out of there and cling to their parents, we thought better of it.


We got there in the morning and walked around a bit looking at the animals, petting the kittens and going through a corn maze before hopping on the back of a tractor to hitch a ride to the pumpkin patch. We picked out our very own and headed back for a hot dog, a puppet show and the first caramel apple of the season.

Here we are sharing the caramel apple.

This is our friend Ava with her mommy.

The family photo (rare appearance, I know)

And this is what Drew did when he finally chose his pumpkin.