November Highlights

 November 2020

And here is a little glimpse of November 2020, the photos are a little jumbled but since they are making their appearance on the blog 1 year late, I don't really care. 

November started with Miles and I going to church. At this time the only people attending church were the speakers and those playing music so Miles went with me while I gave my talk. It was a beautiful Fall day when we came out of the church and Miles always requests photos whenever he sees a beautiful place (I love this about him) So here are some Miles photos. 

And then some more day to day stuff!

Smashing pumpkins

 We let our kids watch Home Alone...Charlie loved it! 

Edwin telling us that he would choose to be the wiseman with the cookie jar. 

In addition to requesting photos in beautiful places...Miles also requests photos with random objects...

He's so cute when he wants to do school work. 

Flu shot trip to the doctor. I think this was the first time during COVID that we went to the dr office.

We have never officially named a baby before they were born but we decided to go for it when Pottery Barn had their stockings on sale and we needed to get a matching one for Walter. haha! We were already confident we were going to name him Walter. We all liked the name, except for Charlie who wanted to name him Quasimodo. 

When we were finishing our mammals unit we found that you can put virtual animals in your world We started with Mammals but eventually turned into dinosaurs. 

The dinosaur among my chickens. (mini dinosaurs) 

Anyway, we had a lot of fun with that. 

More schoolwork...Miles can't sit normal while doing school...and that works well for us. 

Learning about bears while eating like bears. 

Before Walter was born we were working really hard on getting them to do more after-dinner clean up. 

Charlie's birthday. 

More school stuff!

More baby prep....Just an FYI..I was the one to hand wash all of this! 

Park play after we took Charlie's 9 year old photos. 

Miles helped Edwin with his Goat. 

We got to go to church all together one last time before baby brother was born. 

Whenever we buy paper towels, toilet paper, wipes, or diapers at Costco...large towers are made. 

For a Fun Friday, we made it out to a fun pet store with a tortoise named Winston. 

Miles and Edwin put tattoos on their wrists and pretended they were watch Walkie Talkies and for some reason whenever Edwin was talking into his wrist, he would say "It's Taco Tuesday" I'm not sure where he got that from as we don't ever talk about Taco Tuesday, but we thought it was funny.

On my due date, which was Thanksgiving, I had to make dinner because all the take-out places were too busy which was my original plan. So we made Fancy Waffles. 

The day after Thanksgiving (day after my due date as well) We decided to go get a Christmas tree so we could have that all set up when we brought the baby home. So that's what we did.

Apparently my boys wear shorts year round. 

We needed to get a tiny tree to fit into our house this year since we were adding another human to our family and we were outgrowing our house. 

Everyone got to saw at it but just barely because the stump was so small. 

The boys thought it was hilarious that they could all lift the tree over their head. 

And we loved that we could just throw it in the back of our van and drive home. 

We had fun spending the rest of the day decorating and the rest of the month waiting for baby brother. 

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And I also had to go in a bunch and do some non-stress tests, which was annoying but also a nice break. ha!

And that was our November and our last moments as a family of 5.