Emma has been playing on a co-ed basketball team. She has some friends on the team and has been having a good time. She is getting better at making baskets. On this day she made 8 or 9 baskets in a row. I kept trying to take a video of her but kept getting started too late. She is improving and that's great.
I cleared out a space in the other office for me to do work and it has been so great having my own space.
I took a final for my second class so have now completed two classes, both statistics heavy.
Helping John with his math homework - he is learning multiplication this year. I have a lot of sympathy for feeling completely confused by some math thing - so we've been working through it a lot together. Anna wants to help him a lot too since she is tutoring math at school.
Grant likes to rearrange these holiday blocks to say different things and then leave it as a surprise for us in the morning.
Grant has also been building a lego tiny town. You can see the kind of yellow and purple cars in the center bottom of this picture and then a nearby streetlight. I think people in this town are the little dots. He keeps expanding his town to have different zones. He has a business district, a marina, a park, a residential area and an industrial area and has plans for new zones.
Here is more of an overview of tiny town - I don't think that's what he calls it.
Most of us are loving the Pacific Northwest weather. We had enough sun the other night to have a beautiful sunset.
Emma turned 7 earlier in November. We went to Olive Garden for a birthday lunch.
And we had a little family birthday party at our house.
Anna dressed up as Anna from Frozen for the Frozen themed party.
Emma was very excited about it.
We did some different games, including dangling donuts. We did that outside because of the powdered sugar mess and Emma passed on that game because she thought it was too cold outside. It was cold. You can see her inside, waiting it out.
We played pin the nose on Olaf
We made marshmallow snowmen
Played some different games throwing these puffy snowball balls we have.
And had cake - store bought obviously.
I think Emma liked it.
Anna knitted a neck warmer thing for Emma using a round loom we have. It was well received.
Emma picked Ramen for her birthday dinner - one of her favorites.
We celebrated her birthday early because Scott had to go out of town for AF reserve duty on her real birthday. He often has to go in November and has missed her birthday before so have celebrated it early in the past, but now she is old enough to know what's happening so she was a little annoyed about the real and fake birthday situation. On her real birthday we went out for frozen yogurt. It was a lot of fun.
Scott was also gone on Veteran's Day - John drew this picture for him.
Anna got to sing in a choir event at the high school
And then it was Thanksgiving! We spent a few days preparing. This year I assigned each kid a Thanksgiving prep task - I haven't done that in the past. I had Matthew prep and peel sweet potatoes, John made the cranberry sauce (with help from Scott), Grant peeled apples and helped prep some stuffing things, Emma helped make fruit salad and set the table and Anna made a pumpkin pie. We had some extra filling so Anna and Matthew made some tiny pies too. We had just made a bunch of homemade applesauce using some apples my sister had given me and we used some of the extra chunky applesauce to make tiny apple pies along with the tiny pumpkin.
Our Thanksgiving feast.
I was also there.
Anna wrote a cute play about Thanksgiving and all the kids performed it after dinner.
It was a nice evening. Then we had pie!
