Decoration Day

Hannah and I recently purchased some new ornaments for our Christmas tree. She has been so excited to decorate! The girl loves to makes things fancy and dreams of hosting her own party. She is always making lists of people to invite and dreaming up ways we could improve our home. While I hit the early morning day-after-Christmas sales, Jordan and the kids got started with the tree. It was so nice to come home to the tree already done. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Larson Home.

Reading Time

Our kids are big readers and we have attempted many forms of lighting for them in the past. WE HAVE A WINNER! Jordan installed these fluorescent lights from IKEA just above their bunk beds. No more rigging flashlights up with string for us! The boys love to get cozy in their beds and hit the books! To our surprise, they are actually excited to go to bed now. Some of our current favorites are: Josh - the Ricky Ricotta series. He is reading them for the third time. Sam just finished The Black Stallion and enjoys the Secrets of Droon series. For those of you with boys, let me know what series your boys enjoy. Sam has been through most everything, and it can be a challenge to find things that keep his interest but are age-appropriate.

Box Full of Fun

I have been reminded again how much fun kids can have with a box. Ben recently outgrew his infant car seat (fyi, he still only weighs 18.5 pounds), so we purchased a convertible seat.....good thing we had $150 to blow at Babies-R-Us. Anyway, the kids played all kinds of games with this box. I think I added up a total of 6 hours of good, clean fun. My favorite was a magic show they rehearsed and performed for us last night. I will attempt to put up a segment on this blog. Let's just say I am definitely rethinking my Christmas list. Who needs electronic gadgets when you could have a cardboard box.

Happy Thanksgiving

So I've had a lot of things on my mind lately and I haven't been as good at blogging as I should be. To any point, here is a picture of Josh dressed as a Pilgrim. Can I just say how annoyed I am getting at the increasing trend to take God out of every holiday. Instead of Thanksgiving, we are calling it "Turkey Days." Even better, Sam had an assignment in school to write about what famous person you would invite to Thanksgiving dinner . At the bottom of the assignment was a note, "If your family doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, just write about who you would invite as a dinner guest." Who doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving and what is the possible reason for getting rid of this holiday too. Too bad that Sam didn't read the assignment very carefully and thought he was supposed to write about a dinner guest, not Thanksgiving guest. After he had crafted such a careful paragraph, I decided just to let him turn it in. I'm sure the teacher thinks we are vegetarian atheists.