Things we did in November

Charlotte loves this puzzle she received for her birthday. She can do it all by herself and has put it together more than fifty times since August.

We stopped by our favorite pet store to visit the animals and were surprised to see they now had a really cool tortoise.

We played some Scrabble

We voted at the library for our favorite literary characters.

Noah and Wyatt learned about horticulture for a Wolf den meeting. Wyatt's favorite part was adding his little (fake) centipede.

Charlotte ate chocolate teddy bears in her winter hat

Wyatt free drew the cover of this Dog Man book by sight and did a pretty good job.

 We took silly selfies

 We painted the window trim in the bedroom to match our new white windows

 We went to a football Sunday party and Charlotte brought her puppy along.

Nick and I visited Noah at school and played math games for education week.

Wyatt got some puffin sheets to match his puffin pajamas and became barely visible when lying on his bed.

 The kids went to a Thanksgiving cookie decorating class at the culinary school

They also asked the kids to write/draw what they were thankful for. They posted the drawings to their social media account and I knew right away this was Noah's.

We got ready for our Christmas photo shoot

And Wyatt was devastated I wouldn't buy him this blue dragon at Noah's swim lesson.

It snowed (just a little bit).

And we went to the scout Turkey Shoot. Wyatt entered his shooter in the contest. It was a bumblebee. He was a runner up and won a prize. He was very excited.

Noah's den also led the flag ceremony for the first time.

Noah Turns 8

November 1st finally rolled around - the one year anniversary of Noah's tooth getting knocked out of his mouth. As you can see, the tooth did finally pop through. We didn't make it an entire year - it popped about a week before the one year mark. That was pretty close though!

We celebrated Noah's 8th birthday a little early this year due to several family members going out of town. He didn't have a theme for this party, so I just bought him a rainbow cupcake cake.

Uncle Kurt brought his usual number balloon

Noah really liked all of his gifts, which included a real Megaladon tooth, the movie Sherlock Gnomes, a board game, pump shooters, a Rocket kit, a Magic set, Pokemon cards, Legos, and a Pac Man light.

  

Last day as a seven year old

His friend party was on his real birthday. He invited the boys from his class, the boys from his Cub Scout den, his cousins, and a few other close friends to a glow-in-the-dark mini golf party. The venue had a space theme, which made for interesting decor. We left Wyatt at a friend's house, but brought Charlotte since we wouldn't have to pay for her.

The boys mainly just ran around and golfed by themselves for the first half of the party.

  

Then we had pizza and cake. I didn't plan ahead, so I just picked up some hockey themed cake and cupcakes. I didn't get a good picture of the cake before they ate it. This is probably the first time I've forgotten.

Then Noah did the Ticket Twister for the first time. He was so excited to be the birthday boy and to finally have a chance to do this. It was challenging, but he didn't give up and he collected a good amount of tickets.

All of the boys were given game tokens and a small amount of starting tickets that they could trade for prizes.

We still had a bit of time left, so we opened the presents. I always like to see the birthday boy open the presents, so I try to do this at my own parties when time allows. 

Instead of giving out bags of junk for party favors, I gave out homemade cookies. They all earned some nice junk toys from the venue, so I figured that counted since technically I paid for it. I made a number eight (for obvious reasons) and then couldn't figure out what other shape to make (since two 8's was more like an 88th birthday), so I finally went with a cookie boy.