Monkey Bean-Sprouts: Thanksgivings

This year we kind of ended up with two thanksgiving celebrations, which was rather lovely. We had a nice dinner with the Miller family on Thursday after school, and despite it being chickens instead of turkey, all was delicious and the company good. Eowyn managed as usual to start eating before everyone and end after us all. She's a trooper! She also somehow scored a piece of chocolate cake and was just shoving it in her mouth when I saw her and exclaimed loudly!

This is just a funny photo of Eowyn wearing a skirt as a hat. I thought she looked really cute and was also just thinking how different she'll look when she finally grows some hair!

On Saturday of the Thanksgiving weekend we had a family friendly pot luck thanksgiving hosted by Leigh and Gavin in their new house. We were quite a crew (10 adults and 8 kids!) so it was definitely quite a rowdy event. We all brought various dishes though and had a lovely feast of a meal in the late afternoon and early evening. The kids had a great time and even enjoyed some time outside on the balcony! It was good to keep them out there a bit and have the burn off some energy.

Eowyn and James - she got all dressed up for the occasion!

Drake, Liam and Sam tearing it up on rider toys on the balcony!

We even got to sit down for dinner!

Here are just a few pictures from around the same time. Eowyn is at such a fun and cute age. She's crawling full speed ahead and chatting away in her nonsense shouts. She's still ever so fond of food and has the most adorable sniffy snorts to indicate when she doesn't like something. When she wants something, especially in the food department, she shrieks at you and at what she wants. It's kind of funny and definitely very LOUD!

Liam has become very brave in water and he will even lean all the way back into the bath and float around for a long time now. It's quite funny when he starts shouting "can you hear me?!" because his ears are under water and he can't hear properly!