It's Monday. Back to the grind after a lovely 4 day holiday weekend. Was nice to have Myke around and have a second set of hands. Makes it much easier to go on outings and do fun things with the kids when there is another adult. We kept to our very un-traditional Thanksgiving and went out to eat. The "un-tradition" started two years ago when the boys were just 6 months old. We had a 2 1/2 year old and twin 6 month olds. We definitely weren't traveling and we don't have family in the area so we celebrated at home in Pacific Beach. No one had time to cook/wanted to cook/was allowed to cook because it meant leaving the other person with 3 small children for a prolonged length of time....whatever the reason, we ordered food from our favorite Thai place and called it a day! It was fabulous! Last year, we planned to do the same thing...but found out last minute that the Thai place was closed that year. We ended up taking the kids to Denny's for pancakes instead (and Myke and I cooked our own pad thai at the house later) and thus started yet another un-tradition: pancakes on Thanksgiving. It's PERFECT for toddlers and young kids. They LOVE it. Otherwise, it will be a fight for them to try green bean casseroles, squash, etc. I have picky eaters. Growing up, I was a very picky eater. In fact, I remember thinking that traditional Thanksgiving meals were my "worst meal I could imagine". I never liked turkey (except in cold-cut form), gravy and cranberry sauces made me cringe, I despised mashed potatoes.... green beans and sweet potatoes?! Forget it! I never liked (and still don't) pumpkin pie. It wasn't until later in adulthood that I started really liking the traditional Thanksgiving fare... except substitute tofurkey for turkey, please :) So pancakes are fun. There is no complaining with pancakes. No whining. Just happy children. I think we'll keep this up for another few years...at least!
Thanksgiving at Encinitas Cafe
(we stepped it up this year in our new hometown!)
Chocolate chip pancakes!
Owen loves it!
(He also loves his new Batman hat and won't take it off)
Eli is a plain-pancake-type-of-guy
Even Ella got to munch on some pancake
Chloë's preschool Thanksgiving potluck feast
(I was the mom who supplied the vegetarian chicken nuggets..it wasn't on the sign-up sheet (surprise, surprise) so I added it, drew a line, and put Chloë's name next to it)
Another November tradition is family photo shoot at JC Penny
Then a visit to see Santa (which is at the same mall)
At least Eli didn't cry this year...!
A few more pics from our weekend:
Sisters at the park
Best invention ever at VONS grocery store
And today (on Myke's lunch break)
picking out our tree!!! Yay!
Except Myke had to take all the seats out of the van and go back to the tree lot to pick it up after work since our van doesn't have a roof rack on it.
And this is the inside of our minivan. No tree is fitting in here. Is it weird that this is starting to look
normal to me? 4 car seats! At least there is still a spot for Kyla.
All the previous pics were taken with my iPhone. It's sad. Of course it's nice to have a camera on my phone and the ability to quickly take photos whenever I want to capture a moment....but I really need to use my "good" camera more often. The difference in quality is amazing. Here is a pic from Ella taken today with the "good" camera. Much better than the above blurry photos. Man, my little baby is growing up way too fast....but at least she's sleeping through the night!! :)
She's crawling now! Started 2 weeks ago at 9 months old.
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