Happy Thanksgiving!

As usual, we had a big thanksgiving feast here yesterday...which was great fun and excellent food as always! We were down from a record 29 last year to a "measly" 19 this year...much more manageable, although still chaotic at times!  We miss the friends who have moved away since last year, but hope they had a wonderful thanksgiving where they are now!

It was finally time to admit Owen had outgrown the old sock monkey toque, so here is the debut of the new sock monkey toque a couple weeks ago.

building a coaster tent for his little people pre T-giving mania

ready to head out for our Black Friday activity...the MIA!  Far better than dealing with crazed shoppers!

If you're going to San Francisco....

be sure to visit some much missed friends there...

We headed to San Fran (well, actually Newark - suburb on the east bay) over this past weekend to visit our close, and much missed, friends Lars and Elissa, while we could still get a free flight for Owen and before they move even farther away to Oxford!  We had an amazing trip...a nice mini vacation...and Owen had a great time playing with Tor (who is almost exactly a year older than him) and Dendro (the dog) and meeting the new baby, Col.

Water painting on the wall outside was a big hit!  It also prompted Owen's first 3 word sentence of "No puppy agua" when Dendro tried to sneak a drink out of the painting water bucket.  Owen would randomly turn around and repeat this periodically throughout his painting, even if Dendro wasn't around...just to make sure.

this quickly devolved into them just dumping the water out
(mostly on themselves) and asking for more

jumping practice off the hearth

 Owen had a great time playing with Tor - it was a like a little glimpse of what his days must be like at daycare playing all day with other kids!

elephants make the best tractor drivers

stuck on an endless loop of "Livin' la Vida Loca"
Why Ricky?!? Why?!?!

this was much better music

hay bale jumping at the local farm

riding the train - pulled by a horse!  Which has prompted O's favourite new word...
although he's gone a bit french with it pronouncing it 'orse

duck train!

"That's a good one, Tor!"

Happy Halloween!

We started off a week of Halloween fun by going to a Halloween party at a nearby community center...which mostly consisted of Owen insisting we go outside to the playground.  We also did some leaf raking...which was a big hit!

so soft

milk break!

O also insisted we bring Bear outside to ride in the wagon with him.

hugs!

Bear doubles as a cuddly wagon pillow

For the main attraction we headed over to do some trick or treating with MJ and Greta.  Owen was super excited chasing after MJ down the sidewalk and following her up to porch stairs to the front doors...but that was where he lost the whole concept of the evening.  He never stayed long enough to actually get candy, instead he would wave and say "bye-bye" to the person at the door, turn around and head back down the stairs.  Pretty funny, and in the end probably good seeing as it's not like he would be eating the candy anyway, and I don't need to eat a whole bag of candy!

Aptly dressed as a fox!

Greta doing the chicken dance in the background

Ready for house #1!

It was a lot of fun heading out to trick or treat with Owen, I'm already looking forward to next year!