Happy Early Thanksgiving

I haven't posted in a few days and now there's a lot I'd like to post about and I'm sure I'll forget most of it. :)

We're leaving tomorrow to go to Ohio for Thanksgiving. I think I have about half of the things done that I wanted to get done. We're nearly all packed....which means, I have managed to get all the boys packed up but can't decide what I want to take to wear. :)

Last week we finished up our How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World lapbook. :) Thanks to a wonderful woman named Robin, we were able to start Cranberry Thanksgiving. First of all, that is one of my favorite FIAR books so far. I haven't read too many of them yet, we're still working our way through Volume 1, but I love it. We didn't do too much with it because I didn't want to stress out with getting a lot done due to the short week this week. I did find this great link on Scholastic.com that talks about the first Thanksgiving. It had a lot of great info and really helped my little guy who didn't know how Thanksgiving started. I'll try to find the link and post it here. :)

Adisson is doing very well skip counting by fives. :) He's very excited to learn to skip count by two's. I'm excited to work on that with him next month.

Adisson's also been enjoying his Master's Club A LOT! Last week he came home with three new badges! Tonight he had a little gift bag from his teacher's because his birthday is on Saturday. I really appreciate how great they are to him, and well, all the kids that go. :) What a blessing!

I guess I don't talk much about Zander, since most of my rambling is about school. Zander is getting more and more verbal. He has the BEST manners in the house. :) There's something especially rewarding as a parent when you have conversations with your toddler that go like this ..... I sneeze and say "Excuse me." Zander says "Bless you." I say "Thank you, honey!" and he responds with "Allcome!" Or if we're walking down the hall and pass each other, he says "Excuse me." :) He's very concerned with other people, too. If someone hurts themself, like is getting clothes from the washer and putting them in the dryer (we have a stackable unit) and hits her head on the dryer door and he says "Are you ok?" And if he does something silly and hurts himself we ask him if he's ok and he always says "Ohh, I'm fine, I'm fine." He's just a delight to be around. He's always making us laugh and we just enjoy being around him. He has a crazy temper and screams quickly, but that's just how it is to be two sometimes. Heck, I feel that way some days myself. :) I'm just so blessed and so grateful.

Last week we went to the zoo for our homeschooling class. I love the class. It's really great. Last week they touched a skunk (descented) and a boa constrictor and looked at a scorpion's exoskeleton under a black light. :) Then we hung out in the zoo for about an hour. It was unseasonably cold and I forgot my coat at home, but it didn't make much of a difference since most of the animals said they'd rather be inside, too and we didn't get to see them.

Ok, I'm just rambling now and I really need to get to bed as I have several hours worth of stuff to get done tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving!