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Happy Thanksgiving

 A wooly worm was a nice treat to find on a warm Thanksgiving Day. We had a lovely Thanksgiving meal with family. How nice to share a meal and listen to stories. After dinner we hiked up the hill in the country and enjoyed the fresh country air. Lola also loved playing corn hole with everyone. It was special to have four generations together to be thankful together. After a day of running around the girl was out before we hit the highway. 

Pre Thanksgiving workout

We had a lovely morning visiting with friends from church this morning and we invited them to 'school' with us. We did our hymn study and Bible study then cooked up some Indian corn snack. After that we made corn dolls from husks. After lunch we headed down to Lexington because the boys were going to play golf with Granny and Papaw, then later go to the basket ball game. The girls meanwhile visited the park and made a 'ham' run for tomorrows feast. What a gorgeous day to play at the park. Love watching the Doll do the monkey bars.

Pepper is caught in the act

We've been having our concerns about this little guy, wondering why he is sooo weird and hyper and odd. Well, this morning I caught him in the act of drinking my coffee. Not just tasting it, nope... head in gulping it down.... I guess, the cream was more than the coffee. 

New perspective on apple slices

How often do you slice apples the round way? Sometimes it's nice to slice it up a little different. I used the small metal cookie cutters to core the middles:)

Chipmunk Costume Construction

with the help of a quick leggings tutorial online I whipped up a pair of fur leggings. Next I sewed some little fur ears on a head band. Finally I made a tail and attached it to a belt that can be removed. I think this will be the cutest Jeanette Chipmunk costume ever!

Creative Mind

We have really enjoyed using our passes to the museum center. One place we like to spend a lot of time  is building with the chunky blocks. Each visit she comes up with some new theme. Today's visit was zoo animals. In October, we are studying skeletons and we found this great foam puzzle to assemble. It was so cool to have another chance to chat about bones. In the science hall they have a computer game where you build a skeleton of an ice age animal. We played that game until we had made all of them. Chatting about the different rib cages and why the prey seemed to have larger rib cages than the predators- like saber toothed cats. It's also really nice that there were few people there. In the train room at the history center part there was a hunt for pumpkins. Lola found all of them.

hammerhead shark

zebra

turtle

playground