This year it was just the 4 of us for Thanksgiving, but I decided to cook a big dinner anyway. I love having left overs and a few days break with no cooking! Jason's favorite- crab salad, turkey and stuffing. Connor's favorite- green bean casserole, potatoes, cooked carrots and cottage cheese-jello salad. Kaiden's favorite- Red Lobster biscuits and cooked carrots. My favorite- green bean casserole and cottage cheese-jello salad. Everything turned out really delicious!
I have kept in contact with Hannah. She used to babysit the boys after school on the days that I had to work and Jason didn't get home until 2-3 hours after I had to leave. The boys adored spending time with Hannah. She's such a wonderful, sweet person. Anyway, because of Covid she was home in Quincy and just recently moved back to this area. She's living in an apartment that's only 5 minutes from our house. So, I invited her over for dinner and to visit and then a few days later she came back to go for a walk with us around the lake with her dog, Baxter. Piper wants to play with Baxter so badly, but Baxter is obsessed with Kaiden. He loves Kaiden and follows him everywhere. He kinda ignores Piper and focuses all his attention on Kaiden. Connor is such a great big brother. Part way into our walk Kaiden decided his legs were too tired, so Connor offered to carry him. And yes, Connor is taller than Hannah. She's 4'11"
Every year I have a Christmas card made with a family picture. With Covid we really haven't taken any family pictures this year, so I did a family photo shoot today.
the boys are both still on-line for school. I work with Kaiden on See Saw. His laptop and supplies are set up on the end of our formal dinning room. Connor works on Grad Point on his mac computer in his room. Since it looks like they might be on-line for the entire school year I decided to take my own school pictures. Kaiden 1st grade. Connor 6th grade. I pick their clothes out for picture day every year, but the rest of the year they choose whatever they want to wear. I picked this gray shirt with bright yellow for Connor because his favorite color is still "bright colors." Technically bright orange is still his favorite color and I have bought him a ton of orange shirts, but he wore an orange shirt for pictures last year so I wanted something other than orange this year. I actually had a gray and red pull over shirt picked for Kaiden, but he said it wasn't "fancy enough" and HE chose this button up shirt with a sweater over the top. He's a far better dresser than I am.
Kaiden has at least 4 loose teeth right now. He finally got tired of his top tooth hurting, so he just pulled it out.
Memory Lane. I have been going through a bunch of storage boxes. We've been talking about possibly moving this next summer so, I'm trying to thin things out. Below are some special items my grandma Kortus made for me when I was little. She made the red, gray and brown bears below, along with the clothing. Then there is a picture of my Brownies uniform (before girl scouts) and the sash and badges. The red dress, 2 pink poncho's and the blue jacket were all made by my grandma and things I wore as a little girl. The jean hat Kaiden is wearing was one of my favorites. My grandma made that out of old jeans. I wore it quiet a bit. The doll he's holding was my favorite Cabbage Patch doll. The signed shirt was from my High School All-nighter. The boys and I had fun looking through and talking about all these treasures. My Cabbage Patch doll has become Kaiden's baby and now sleeps on his bed with him.
