4 year old sincerity

So last night my little monkey boy Aricin is getting ready for bed and he is standing ON the edge of the tub in the bathroom while his brother is cleaning his teeth. "I can't clean my teeth until he is done" Aricin says. As I proceed to tell him to get off the tub because he could fall and crack his head open Christian chimes in. " Yeah Aricin it would be like the time I was at Costco and cracked my head open." While Christian did crack his head pretty good off a bench at the Costco food court when he was three, he survived and wasn't even hospitalized, just had a HUGE goose egg on his head for a few weeks. But that was our close call. Anyway so I am leaving the bathroom when I hear Aricin with 100% sincerity pose the question "Did your brains come out of your head?" Got to love 4 year olds. They can talk about brains coming out of your head with 100% innocent curiosity. That must be the difference between the adult parent brain and the kids' brains. They really just DON'T get it when you say stuff like that. Point taken...

Thanksgiving 2008

There are many things I am thankful for this year. Just to name a few that come to mind:

1. Time (which I don't seem to have much of lately)

2. Family, those here living with me and those that are far away. I don't know what I would do without my wonderful family. My mom that always saves my behind for church projects, and my sister that is always there for me to lean on and get support. My dad for always checking in on me and making me laugh, and my brother for his never ending tech support! Of course I couldn't live without my family here either. Niels especially, he is awesome! And the boys have taught me so much that I never would have learned any other way.

3. Friends that are such a great support, even if they do live halfway or all the way across the country!

 I am grateful that in this hard economic time that Niels has a great job, and grateful especially for him and the love that he shows me and the kids daily.

I know this is short and sweet but I really did run out of time the last couple weeks. Here are our Thanksgiving Pics.

This is Aricin after the big dinner (more like lunch because we ate at noon) helping put up some outside Christmas decorations.

Christian enjoying tollhouse chocolate chip pie. I made this one just for him but it ended up being almost everyone's favorite. We also had homemade pumpkin pie (made with homemade pumpkin puree from our Patterson Farms pumpkin) and ice cream pie. I mean really, what is Thanksgiving without really good desserts?

Here is everyone before the meal!
And here is the food. Boy was it yummy. From our Turkey to Uncle Laren's stuffing recipe and homemade bread this meal was awesome!