We celebrated Kalum's First Birthday the weekend after his actual birthday with a Husker Football Party, in light of his first and favorite word, BALL! Fun was had by all our family there, he got plenty of gifts-some "boy toys" and enjoyed the cake for sure. The Huskers last second win put everyone in good spirits as well! The rest of the month was full, too, with fall things like preschool events for Samara such as her Hy-Vee field trip to buy food for charity and their Thanksgiving lunch program where they sang songs, had snacks and wore the Turkey hats they all made. I had several MOPS events through the month, including our first actual meeting where we had a craft for the group. All went well, so it's nice to have one done and under my belt. Jeff and I went on a date to eat dinner and then to see TobyMac at the Mid-America Center the week before Thanksgiving. It was a fun concert with lots of contemporary Christian artists we enjoyed.
Thanksgiving was split over two days - Thursday at Derby's and then the Friday after at Pennell's. We of course enjoyed lots of good food and great family time!
Samara's Moments for the Month:
- When she woke up on November 1st and it was still dark, she said, "Oh, we can go trick or treating again!"
- We notice everyday she's starting to look more and more grown up and is recognizing letters all over the place now that she sees. Her go to movies are currently Sesame Street-Guess that Shape and Color and a Match Circus one about counting and numbers. She's learning that letters make different sounds. She'll say, what does pumpkin start with? I say the puh puh sound, she says "puh-puh-P" How about boy? I say buh-buh sound. "buh-buh-B!" How about yummy? yuh-yuh I say. "yuh-yuh-yee!" Well, she'll get there I guess...
- She still has quite the memory and can recount stories Daddy told her the night before.
- Determined! Daddy sets up an obstacle course in the living room that she has to go through. It's called the "shark game" and she can't step on the carpet or the sharks will get her. She went through one course 20 times until she got it right!
- She'll sit you down, put a pretend cape on you, have a comb or brush and then ask how you want your hair. "Princess style or adult style" are the two options, even for Daddy. :)
- At HyVee one day every time I stopped the cart she would let go of her little green kid cart and sing through head, shoulders, knees and toes doing all the motions. She also says "HI!" to every kid and often adult that goes by.
- She didn't eat anything at Thanksgiving, but a little fruit salad at Derby Thanksgiving. Just wanted to play iPad games or hide the lambie.
- She seems to have such a great base of knowledge of the bible already and she's only three. When trying to tell me what the story was about at preschool one day:
- Samara: "what was that guy's name again?"
- Mommy: "What guy?"
- S: "the one with the beautiful coat of so many colors?"
- M: "Joseph you mean?"
- S: "Yes, Joseph and he went to jail but he didn't do anything wrong.
- He is getting very particular about what food he wants to eat and will wave away anything undesirable. He will say "eez" for please for whatever he does want though. He can spit out any veggie that you give him at an amazing speed. We have to hide it in other food really well!
- Nov 12th - says "Yay!" and claps hands
- Both kids are playing with the construction yellow bulldozers and dumptrucks...Kalum repeatedly rolling one off the coffee table and saying his version of boom!... Samara is putting little people in hers and saying, "there, now you are all snuggled in"
- Late November Mommy was at a work meeting, so it was Daddy bath-duty night. Kalum refused his bath and Jeff didn't have his diaper back on yet and went down to warm up the bed time bottle. Jeff looked at top of stairs and saw naked Kalum peeing down the stairs! Boys!!
- He is a climber! He will try to climb onto anything he can. Samara's rocking chair, desk chair, or stool and he figured out Samara's bed by late November. Then he stands up top of each thing like he has conquered a mountain!
- Nov 25th - only wants bananas and canned pears for fruits
- Thanksgiving - Ate basically pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie and cool whip today. Refused all food items at lunch and finally ate some pb toast before leaving. He had no nap, so was one overtired little boy!
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