I kinda gave up on sorting through Thanksgiving photos (or any other photos for that matter). Aidan's reward for wearing his eye patch is getting to use my camera and take pictures. I am contemplating getting a separate memory card for him to use. For instance, he takes roughly 1,000 photos for every 100 I take. I had to delete hundreds of pictures of the following things just to find the few photos I took at Thanksgiving: dog puke, the toilet, about 400 photos of my Dad's Steelers shirt (often with his head cut off), people eating, Scotte coughing, diapers being changed, Grammy vacuuming, Aidan's feet, my sister's dog, football games on TV, and me and my mom and sister washing dishes. If I had a memory card for him I could just wipe it clean when he was done instead of searching for my pictures. I want to save a few that he takes here and there, but I don't need them all nor do I want to look through all of them. The best sequence I have from him is when he snuck into Liam's room while he was napping and snapped photos of the entire sequence of Liam waking and screaming. It's only amusing because I got him to go back to sleep.
Yep, that was a funny one...
Well, we had a fabulous Thanksgiving. We left Wednesday afternoon and got home Sunday night, so we had a busy holiday full of traveling, but overall it went extremely well. We visited with my family first and enjoyed our pie day. We have only one rule on Thanksgiving day: pie for breakfast!! And lunch. And snack. This year my mom made 2 apple pies, 2 pumpkin, 1 pecan, 1 cherry, 1 blueberry and 1 peach. We had to fight the boys for pie this year!! Brendan and my nephew, Jacob, seemed to enjoy it the most. Darn, I didn't even get a photo of the pumpkin pies.
The boys enjoyed playing with their cousins on the big day. the day after, my mom, sister and I took them all to see Santa and then a movie. We saw Puss in Boots and it was a big hit with everyone. We went to the theater early to get decent seats. Then, my sister and I left my mom with the 5 boys and went to round up snacks. The line was exceptionally long since it was a holiday and we had a mini panic-attack after waiting in line for a long time. My sister ran back to see if my mom needed help and the sweet little things were all sitting quietly in a row waiting for their popcorn. They laughed through the whole movie. Disclaimer: over 1,000 photos and I don't have a good one of my parents together. That's a bummer.
For the last part of the trip we visited Scotte's family. We took the kids to the playground and to see the Christmas lights and Santa again. They loved it! The part they keep talking about is when we made reindeer food after visiting Santa. They used oatmeal and glitter and the boys can't wait to sprinkle it outside on Christmas Eve. It will be fun! Brendan also enjoyed racing around the playground with Nana.
Happy belated Thanksgiving!
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If you would like an idea to go along with your reindeer food, we always make a landing strip leading up to our reindeer food bowl! We just make red and green paper chains. 2 about 10 feet long. The best part is letting them decide where in the yard it should go and setting it up all by themselves. They take the job so seriously :) picking just the right place. Placing the strips, putting carrots in the reindeer bowl at the end of the strip, and then sprinkling their glittery oatmeal along the chains so the landing strip will light up. They love checking on the strips in the morning, which have always moved some from wind, and seeing that as confirmation that Santa used the landing strip. Have fun this Christmas - your kids are at the very best ages for Christmas magic!
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