Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who are either living in Canada or are Canadian (I think this only refers to Cami in terms of our friends in the states!) So with that said Happy Thanksgiving Cami!


We celebrated yesterday and had a blast! Played like a 5 hour game of Carcassonne and ate way too much food and dessert. But it was good!!

So will we celebrate American Thanksgiving you ask? Well we will go to school as usual but we hear there may be a potluck type thing for the Americans. We shall see!

Canadian Thanksgiving

Monday is Thanksgiving here in Canada. It is super weird to be celebrating this holiday in October! But alas we are :)

We got invited to go to a few different homes for the holiday. We will go to one families house on Sunday (there will be three families there total) and then we will go to another families house on Monday. The plan for Sunday is to play at least a few rounds of Carcassonne in the midst of eating a lot or really good food! Monday will be a good time of fellowship and then another round of food!

Sounds like a great weekend to me, eh?

When American Thanksgiving comes around, we will be in classes as if it is just another day. Weird! No black Friday here either although they have something similar the day after Christmas called Boxing Day- more on that when it gets closer. (And no it has nothing to do with literally boxing)

Yes Rylan

We have set a standard for Rylan that when we ask him to do something or he is asked by others to do something (or not do something) that he needs to respond with, "Yes mommy or yes daddy or yes mam or yes sir." Well the other day Carsten was in his highchair and Rylan was sitting at the table. It was lunch time so I was feeding Carsten and Rylan was eating. Carsten decided to spit his food out so Rylan says to him, "don't spit your food out Carsten. Say 'yes Rylan.'"  Jeff and I about died laughing but then had to correct him and tell him that he is not the dad! Kids pick up on everything! We were encouraged to see that he fully understands the concept.

Hurt lip

Last night Rylan fell off his chair at the table and hurt his lip and gums. He is doing well today but was pretty upset over it last night.

My growing Carsten

 Well my little Carsten is not so little anymore. He is crawling all over the place and is now pulling himself up on the furniture or in the bath or on anything that you can possibly think to pull yourself up on! He has his two top teeth now also which you can see in the third picture! He is growing and changing ever so fast!

From sitting

To standing up

To being very proud of himself (notice the two top teeth!)

Millions of peaches, peaches for free

This week we were given some fruit for free from a local farmer. We could all have as much as we wanted. We got a bushel of peaches and pears! Now what to do with all that fruit?? Well I am pureeing a large amount of it for Carsten then freezing it. Some of it we will simply eat fresh and the rest we plan to cut and freeze for smoothies. We were given a class on canning, but since you have to add sweetener of some sort and you have to cook the fruit (rendering it nutritionally useless), we decided not to do that.

I spent all day long in the kitchen. First I baked two loaves of wheat bread. It was a long process of kneeding, rising, punching, rising, kneeding, rsising, baking! They turned out great. Then I spent several hours peeling peaches, pureeing peaches, cutting peaches, etc. I even baked a peach pie!

We got invited over to a friend's house from our Sunday group. We went there for supper (ya, I know, but that is what everyone calls it here!) and then we played a game called "Carcassonne." It was a really fun game. We ate peach pie ala mode with coffee (decaf of course). Then in the middle of the game they made homemade kettle corn and apple cider...yumm! Rylan played with their three kids and Carsten slept happily in their pack n play. What a fun evening, but late. We did not get home until 11:30 and Rylan was still awake! Needless to say he was a bit crabby this morning. We really hit it off with this couple and we are excited to spend more time with them in the future.

Under the Sea

Last week was "under sea" week at preschool. Here are the crafts that Rylan made. (Not sure why the picture is this direction, it won't load any other way!)

Rylan got a special treat last night- a lollipop that looks like a bunny face. This was from papa and nana and he finally got to enjoy it.