Thanksgiving

We made it through the week with Dad out of town with minimal stress (there was one night when nobody wanted to sleep), and Mom enjoyed attending Natalie & Owen's pow-wows (Thanksgiving parties) at school on Friday. Natalie was an indian and Owen was a pilgrim. Mom went to both parties, but we all ended up at Natalie's party so that we could all be together. Owen had a blast playing at the bigger kids playground. He nearly killed himself coming down a steep slide, all the while yelling, "Whee!" At that point Mom decided it was time to go. That night after dinner everybody stayed up late playing games and reading books while we waited for Dad to get home. Saturday night we had a special treat and went to the Aquarium Restaurant downtown. We rode the ferris wheel and Natalie and Owen took turns on the carousel (ridng sharks of course). During dinner we enjoyed watching all the fish and sharks swimming by. Monday it was off to the doctor for Henry's 2 month check up, and everybody else had flu shots. On Wednesday, Aunt Karen arrived and we had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. Karen had some quality Henry time, and Natalie and Owen were very excited to see her. She left Saturday and we were basically housebound the rest of the weekend since we had constant rain. We did make it out for some holiday shopping on Sunday. Now we are getting into the Christmas spirit and getting decorations up around the house.