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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! We are very sad that we've been absent from our blog lately, but we've been busy playing with visitors and helping Mommy recover.

This Thanksgiving Mommy is grateful for all of the help, prayers, and well-wishes she's received in her recovery from surgery. It's been a slow road, but hopefully a successful one! Mommy is also grateful for catered Turkey Day meals so she doesn't have to cook.This year, Daddy is thankful that the Packers won their Thanksgiving Day game. He also says he doesn't know why Mommy dressed us up for the day as we are not going anywhere special. Mommy says any day is a good day to dress up, especially holidays. We told him it's cool to be fancy. And that's that.
Elyse: I'm especially grateful for all of the fun time I've been able to spend with my many grandmas lately. It's been loads and loads of fun!
Felicity: Thumbs up on the outfit Mom!
What am I grateful for? Well, everything really (as I love to say "thank you" all of the time), but most of all, I'm thankful for the small things in life--like snack time, Mickey Mouse, and cheese.
Here's our great-grandma (one-half of The Greats, remember?). We are so happy she was able to stay to help Mommy and hang out for Thanksgiving. We love you!

And just because it's been so long since we've posted, we thought we'd give you a little glimpse into our Thanksgiving-morning tradition: watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, of course! Here we are in our seats, waiting for caramel rolls and sausage (good breakfast fare), and getting ready to cheer for our favorite balloons:
Did you see how big that Mickey Mouse is? H-U-G-E!!! Can we get one of those?
After breakfast treats, we lounged in style while watching the events on 34th street. Maybe one of these years we'll go to NYC to see it in person! We had such a great time watching the parade in our jammies.
One final thing we have to mention on this day of gratitude. We were so lucky to have Mommy's BFF, Kate, also come to play with us and help out while Mommy recovered. She was so much fun, brought us a bounty of presents, and was basically the coolest cat around. We would've posted about her trip earlier, but we were a little pre-occupied with our crazy happenings and other visitors! Thanks for everything Kate! We love you!

Monday, November 9, 2009

In Preparation for the Frozen Tundra

In preparation for our big trip to the Frozen Tundra for Christmas, we decided to model our new hats and mittens. So what do you think?Grandma definitely thinks we're all set for a little snow and chilly temps!

Gathering Leaves

By Robert Frost

Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.
I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.
But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.
I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?
Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.
Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,
And who's to say where
The harvest shall stop?

Trick-or-Treat!

Our very first trick-or-treat experience was spectacular! Did you know that if you just knock on a neighbor's door, they will give you candy? It really is a great set-up!

Here we are all set to go out on our big excursion!We had our own special bags (thanks Grandma!) and filled them with lots of yummy treats!
Come on Daddy! I'll show you just what to do. First we knock, then we wait, then we say "twick or tweat!" and then, yup, you guessed it! Treats pour into our bag. It is practically magic!
Faster, faster, faster! Let's go people! Do you think I'm getting any younger? Gotta get me some yummies!
We had a fun family Halloween with lots of help from Grandma, Daddy, and Mommy!