We started out the day at Maria’s house where she always sets a beautiful table. 
We didn’t get to eat there though, we just hung out and socialized and the boys played.
We then went home so the boys could get a nap and then went to my mom and Jim’s house. There we had turkey, stuffing, green beans, pumpkin pie, apple pie, apple salad, quiche and sweet potatoes.
After dinner the boys put puzzles together and roughhoused with Grandad.
Liam spent part of his afternoon reading to Butch. He read The Hat by Jan Brett, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat and To Market To Market, among others. The cat tolerated it.
Liam’s school had their Thanksgiving lunch today and we got to sit with Chloe and her mom and brother. I am so glad that Liam and Chloe are such good friends since they are classmates and neighbors. (I think Colm has a little crush on Chloe as well.) 🙂 We were also lucky that Nanny was able to eat with us, too. Liam’s class made some very creative placemats for our dinner that had fall leaves on them and on each leaf was something they were thankful for. Liam was thankful for: Uncle Patrick and Aunt Kate, Claire, Erin, Mommy, Daddy, Colm, Nanny, when I take him to the park, stuffed animals and daddy’s piggyback rides.
Every morning Colm has a waffle with honey or syrup and butter. The problem is that he wants to be able to visibly see that there is butter on every bite of his waffle, but the butter keeps melting. So I have to put butter on this waffle and then about two minutes later I have to reapply the butter on each individual bite. (He will let you know if you missed a spot.) Needless to say, we are running out of butter and quick!
I am not ready to let Liam start seeing PG movies quite yet, especially when I don’t know why they are PG. He has seen one PG movie(Madagascar), but Happy Feet came out this week and he wants to see it. Well, I don’t have time to go see it first and then decide if I think he should see it, but if you go to http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ they pick apart movies and tell you things that are in the movie that you would want to know about as a parent. A great timesaver!
I have strep-again! How is that possible!?! Sean says I am the only person he knows who can give themselves strep. I went to the doctor on Friday to get another strep test because my throat was hurting. The test came back negative which really made me mad because that means they aren’t going to give me any meds. So, I took quite a few Tylenol this weekend for the pain and by today I was feeling pretty good. My throat hurts a little, but not too much. Then after dinner tonight I get a call from the dr’s office saying they cultured my strep test and I DO have strep! I knew it! So now I have to go to the pharmacy tomorrow to pick up the meds that I really needed three days ago.
Too funny…we were running errands yesterday when we saw an old, broken down, woodpaneled, rusty, olive green station wagon next to us and Liam (with all the enthusiam of a four-year old who is seeing something exciting) says, “Mom! Look! It’s a limosine!” I hate to laugh at my children…but I had to laugh. THAT was definintely NOT a limosine.
We were at our church’s holiday bazaar today when a lady asked Liam if he was getting ready for Santa. His reply? “No, I am getting ready for Thanksgiving.” I could not have been prouder. It absolutely drives me batty when people decorate for Christmas before they’ve even eaten their Thanksgiving turkey. I guess Liam feels the same way. 🙂
Colm using his favorite…markers.
Liam was inspired to draw this airplane while we were watching a video of my father-in-law flying in a cool airplane. Liam did a whole series of airplanes in a variety of colors. This one was my favorite.
This is SUCH a good book, not a happy book, but definitely good! I love the cover on this one, too. It is so perfect! Anyways, the book is about a man, Jonah, and his search for his half-brother and how he hopes that finding his half-brother will help him find himself.