Happy Thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving. This year, I have much to be thankful for...I have my family and we are all happy, healthy and employed.

And being that people are in need of water safe for human consumption on Thanksgiving Day, Scott has to work. Actually, we are happy that he had to work today, Thursday, because that means he has Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. We will be having our big turkey dinner tomorrow.

Today, Joshua and I went to see Bolt at the movie theater. So with our 3-D glasses, sour gummy worms, popcorn and drinks in hand, we settled in to watch the movie. It was really really good, I only had a little tear or two, Joshua sat on the edge of his seat through the exciting parts. We both enjoyed it.

After the movie, we went to the dollar store because it was open and then to the grocery store. Joshua had already informed me that since we couldn't have turkey he wanted pizza. I felt odd walking through the grocery store, which was pretty crowded with people buying their last minute items or ingredients they ran out of (I spied whipped cream, butter, bottle of wine and some canned goods), and buying frozen pizza. I had a strong urge to tell everyone that my husband had to work and we are having turkey tomorrow. I guess I didn't want to seem anti-Thanksgiving or something. Funny how something so silly really did bother me.

The evening was filled with pizza and Home Alone on television. Joshua had not seen Home Alone before. He was really sad when Kevin's family left him, wanted to know if I would ever forget to take him, told me he would just sit and wait for me to come home if I did ever leave him, worried that bad guys were going to come try to steal our stuff, worried that a hurricane might come to our house (this disaster thing has been a recurring topic of conversation recently...Joshua worries a lot about tornadoes, fires and now hurricanes destroying our house), was reassured when I explained that hurricanes usually don't come this far away from the ocean, decided he didn't want to have a beach house anymore and then was most concerned about Kevin's presents Christmas morning...where are his presents? what did he get? He wasn't satisfied with the answer that he got his family back on Christmas morning, he wanted to know about the toys!

I'll let you know how the turkey turns out...

Did you have any dreams last night?
I did. I had a dream that I was cleaning your fish tank and all the fish were flopping around on the floor and I couldn't catch them!
Where was I in your dream?
You were there watching me and laughing!
Well, next time, can you dream that I helped you?
You know, that is a good idea...I will try that.
Did you have any dreams last night?
No...you know I sleep with my eyes open so I don't have any dreams about werewolves or Dracula or anything...

Just a Few Random Things

I just wanted to blog a few things so that I would have a reminder.

This week, Joshua pushed himself on his swing for the very first time! I was more excited about it than he was. Maybe now I won't always have to push.

We talked about friends this week and Joshua's "bestest" friends are Ben, JJ, Reid, Tye and Caitlin.

Joshua has just now realized that when Cassidy gets older, she is going to be a sister like Caitlin and not a brother. He was a little disappointed that she wasn't going to be a brother and is trying to convince me to have a baby brother because he really really really really wants one.

His favorite word is currently "awesome" and he has discovered Swiss Cake Rolls and thinks they are "really delicious."

Halloween

Yep, I'm a little slow on posting about Halloween...

Joshua really enjoyed Halloween this year. We went Trick or Treating with his friend Ben and Ben's sister Jordan. Tyler Hansbrough, Indiana Jones and Hannah Montana really racked up in the candy department.

Unfortunately, we left the bag of candy on the dining room table and Buddy ate every piece, along with every wrapper. Fortunately, we had enough candy from school, soccer and fall festival to put in Joshua's pumpkin and Joshua has only asked for M&Ms and Skittles, which we already had, so he doesn't even know his candy is gone. I, however, was really looking forward to the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!

Or Perhaps an Archeologist

The Ark of the Covenant is a box that was said to hold the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written. The Ark was kept in the Tabernacle, which was a tent constructed by the children of Israel under the supervision of Moses.

Yesterday, school was closed so we went to the Wright's house for a couple hours of play. Caitlin and Camryn had been playing church and wanted to know if Joshua wanted to play church too. After a bit time passed, I went upstairs to see what they were doing. The princess tent set up in the girls room was the church and they were all inside. Then I heard Joshua...

Caitlin, there was this Ark in a tent in the Bible.

And, he started flipping through Caitlin's Bible story book. Caitlin wanted to stop at Noah's ark, but Joshua told her it wasn't that ark, it was a different Ark. And, sure enough, he found a picture of the Ark of the Covenant in her book (it isn't talked about, but there is a picture in Joshua's Bible story book too).

Caitlin, there is a man called Indiana Jones. And this is the Ark that he looks for in a movie.

Joshua was a little disappointed that Caitlin wasn't too interested in hearing about Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. But, they moved on, played other things, and had a wonderful time.

Jessica, thanks for having us over!

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