Happy Thanksgiving!

Another Thanksgiving is in the books.  Carli really seemed to have a lot of fun this year.

Last Friday was the feast at preschool.  Carli was so excited when I showed up to eat lunch with her.  She had to show me everything in her room.  She also had to have her picture taken with her best friend, Merry.  Of course, Carli ate nothing at lunch.  Too excited, maybe?

Jacob photo bombed the picture.  Not sure how the girls felt about that.

This is the Church, Here is the steeple...

Her turkey, pink of course

lunch buddies
 

 Thanksgiving at home was a little different than we expected.  It was to be at our house this year since PawPaw at surgery a few weeks ago.  Then, Austin's schedule was changed and he had to work during lunch.  Then Grandma's pneumonia came back and she had to go back into the hospital.  None were able to come for lunch.   With just us and Poppie and a 13 pound turkey, there were plenty of leftovers!  After lunch, Poppie "read" to Carli from a coloring book.  It was a good day.



Carli's art gallery of artwork from school



reading with Poppie



After we all had a nap, it was time to decorate the tree.  While she was asleep, Joe and I assembled the tree in the living room.  When she awoke, she was mesmerized by the lights.  She had  so much fun putting the ornaments on the tree that she even forgot about cartoons for the evening!

She looks so grown up in this picture.

 

Notice all of Carli's ornaments are crammed together.  Love it!

 

Setting up the Nativity.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween this year with Carli was so much fun!  The weeks before, they talked about it in preschool quite a bit.  I was busy working on her costume.  She talks about Snow White so much that I thought this would be the perfect costume.  I searched all over trying to find the pattern, but finally ended up buying it off E-Bay.  As I worked on it, I showed her my progress.  She was so excited.  When it was ready, she couldn't wait to try it on.

Joe took her for a trial run with Grandma and PawPaw.  She was so happy to show it to them.   Then it was finally October 31st.

 

After dinner, Carli got dressed and it was time for pictures.  She loves to have her picture made.  Then we loaded up the car and headed to Poppie's house.  All the way over, she kept saying "trick or treat".  But when we got to his house, she was so shy and wouldn't say anything.  She even hid her face in her pumpkin.

 

 

 

Next we headed to Aunt Cheryl's.  Carli wouldn't really talk there.  I had to trick HER so I could get a picture of her with Cheryl by telling her that I was taking candy from her bucket.  That got a smile out of her. 

 

 

We headed to Aunt Nancy's next.  The skeleton on the wall of "Nana's" house danced whenever someone moved.  Carli thought this was the funniest thing.  She kept running up to it so it would dance.

Finally, we headed back into our neighborhood to hit a few houses.  By this time, Carli had no trouble saying "trick or treat" when she got to the doors.  She had so much fun.  Her biggest trouble came at home when she as told she could only have one piece to eat.  The decision was so hard...

 

Joe was worried that he would have trouble getting her into bed, but Carli fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow.

Can't wait to see what next year brings...