Thankful Turkeys and Tasty Turkeys

This year I wanted the boys to think more about Thanksgiving and being thankful. So we made Thankful Turkeys. I asked each of them what they were thankful for and wrote it on the turkey feathers. I think it will be interesting to see how their answers change each year.

Evan is thankful for: Dinosaur Train, grandmas and grandpas, family, Jaxy Baxy(our kitten), McQueen and Dinoco and Mean McGreen (cars), and his Buster, Freddy and blanket.
As Jacob said he is 'thank you' for: Super Why (tv), Jax (kitten), grandmas and grandpas, people's houses (friends), Dinosaur Train (more tv), and lastly Music and Dancing.

After the boys were thankful I decided to let them have fun with Tasty Turkeys. I saw these turkeys online and thought they would be fun to make. Surprisingly it was a very kid friendly project. They were able to do almost everything. Their motivation to listen was being able to pick a turkey to eat when we finished. MMM!

Cowboys and Pirates?

We found some clearance Halloween tees for 50 cents. A cowboy and a pirate.

Kind of cheesy shirts but the boys played all evening.

It might be hard to keep them from wanting to where them out of the house.

Trick or Treat

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Aunt Laura was here to Trick or Treat with us. During the day we went to Hilldale for the boys to enjoy some music and Trick or Treating in the warm indoors. Then at night the boys ran their little hearts out. Since we still don't have many houses in our neighborhood we decided to crash a near-by neighborhood. I'm sure a couple people were thinking... who are the pirates with Scooby-Do?

We, I mean the boys, made out nicely! We enjoyed stuffing our faces with candy in front of the fire when we got home.

Jacob was a little more into character than Evan was.

Evan didn't want to have any facial hair.

Jacob wanted to give Scooby-Do a try.