Sesame Street Live

On Friday Nov. 30th, I took Adrienne to see Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music. I wasn't sure how she would react to the characters. Turns out, she LOVED it! I had asked Jeff to go get tickets for the Thurs. show when the first went on sale. Well, he got her front row seats. They were great. We got to see everything and it wasn't real crowded, so it was nice.

When one of the monsters came down off stage and started shaking hands with the kids on the front row, I held Adrienne's hand out and let her "pet" the monster. After it had gone by, Adrienne looked at me like WOW! I like that! after that, she was mesmorized.

At intermission, they had a guy come up in front of the stage selling mylar balloons, in the shape of Elmo's face. Adrienne kept saying Elmo boon. Elmo boon. She wanted a balloon. I told her we would get one after the show, and she said OK.

Well, after the show, we started to leave. I had put her coat on, and was holding her hand. She pulled away from me and told me No, Elmo boon! The little stinker had remembered the balloon. So, mommy bought her the balloon. She was happy as a clam. I told her once we were in the car, she would have to hold it down so mommy could see, and she did. I told Jeff after I got her in bed, that I would have to take her back next year. She really enjoyed the show.

November

The girls & I were supposed to go to Richmond the first weekend in November to visit the Germains, but the van was acting up, so we put it off a couple of weeks. We had Adrienne's 2nd birthday party at the house. Her friend McKenna came over. Adrienne didn't quite know what to do about blowing out the candles, so McKenna helped.

Everyone loved the cake. It was in the shape of Pablo the Penguin from the Backyardigans. Everyone had a blue mouth after eating cake. But, I don't think they minded to much.

I forget how busy of a month November can be. With all the birthdays (3 in my house alone) and Thanksgiving, plus it's a VERY busy time for me at work.

We went to Nancy's for Thanksgiving since Thomas, Mandy & the girls were in town. I realized this is the first time in 36 years that I wasn't going to spend Thanksgiving with mom & Amy. Jeff, Kelli, Adrienne & I did go over to mom's for a little while, just to spend some time with her. It was still weird not being with mom's whole family on Thanksgiving day. But it was easier on everyone since some of us had to work the next day.

After work on Black Friday, I loaded the girls up in the truck (my van still wasn't working right) and we headed to Richmond to see the Germains, and to celebrate Zach & Adrienne's birthdays. We got up there about 10pm Friday night. We all went right to bed. Sat was a fun day. First we got up and went to the Children's Museum. OH WOW! that place is great! There wasn't a line for Santa, so we took the kids to get thier picture made. Well, the pictures would have turned out great if Kelli would have smiled, but she wouldn't do it. No matter how much I bribed or threatened.

Then we went and the kids played in the museum for a couple of hours. They painted pictures and "picked" apples. It was a lot of fun. I wish we had something like that here in Roanoke.

Then back to the Germains for naps for the little ones. While Adrienne & Zach took a nap, Kelli & Sami watched a movie and Drew (Carrie's husband) watched all 4 kids while she and I ran to a scrapbook store. It was great. they were having a big sale, and I got a few things. I found some great paper for the pictures we took at SeaWorld when we were in FL. I can't wait to get back to working on scrapbooks. It will be easier once the holidays are over and things settle back down a little bit.

After nap, we had dinner and then had a mini party for Zach & Adrienne.

They opened their presents to each other.

Then they had cupcakes and thought they were YUM.

We headed home Sunday morning. Sami wasn't too happy that we were leaving. But her mom reminded her that they are coming to Roanoke in 2 weeks. YEAH!!

October Update

I just realized it has been almost 2 months since I posted anything. We've had a lot happen in 2 months.

We went to the pumpkin patch in Christansburg this year. Mom & Christie went with us.

I wish Morgan could have gone, but she was with her mother that weekend. The kids had a blast.

They wandered around the first part of the corn maze a little bit. Every where that Kelli went, Adrienne had to follow. She loves her big sister.

Adrienne went to a birthday party for a little girl at daycare. McKenna is about 3 weeks older than Adrienne. Everyone (including her parents and me) are amazed at how much the girls look alike.

We seem to always do their hair the same way on the same days. Adrienne can't quite say McKenna, so she calls her Kenna.

Morgan did get to help us carve the pumpkin though. Adrienne wanted nothing to do with it. Kelli & Morgan were cleaning it out, and Adrienne would walk up and I asked if she wanted to help. She would just shake her head and say NO, then run off. So we did it without her.

Halloween was fun. Kelli was Jasmine. When we were in Disney over the summer, she wanted us to get her a Jasmine costume. Jeff & I kept telling her no. But we got it without her knowing and gave it to her for her birthday. So she wore that. Adrienne was a monkey. Nothing new there. We just gave her fur to go with the personality.

Well, that's the highlights for October.