Thursday, November 30, 2023

30 November 2023


 Over Thanksgiving Rosebud and Bobo and I went up to visit my parents in PA.  It's about a three hour trip for us.  This is a picture of the kids in Grandma and Grandpa's old Dodge van.  (They thought it was pretty cool.)  We had a good time together.  They took us to see a play of "The Christmas Story", which Bobo said was boring.  However, we've been talking about it and quoting it to each other ever since.  Bobo got some shots in December and he went around saying, "That's my sore arm!" for a few days afterward.

We played games and went on walks and had a good time.  I'm glad to live closer now!

Sunday, November 26, 2023

26 November 2023

Some lovely creations from Rosebud:




Also she found this card, and filled out the inside, and asked me to hang it on the fridge so that our family would be wished "happy days, because it's not just for holidays, it has 'day' in it" every day!


 

Saturday, November 25, 2023

25 November 2023

More art from Nut Brown.  This is from when he was much younger, before any art classes.  It features video game characters from both Castle Crashers and Terraria.





 

Friday, November 24, 2023

24 November 2023

Some artwork from Nut Brown, created during 8th-9th grades:






 

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

22 November 2023

Guess who was one of the second graders chosen for special recognition at the monthly assembly?  Our beautiful Rosebud!

 

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

21 November 2023

 We picked apples this year (oh joy! oh bliss!), something that we have missed ever since we left Michigan.  It was wonderful, and the fruit is delicious.  It was fun to discover that Maryland people have opinions about apples and apple varieties in the same way that Iowa people have opinions about corn and corn on the cob varieties.  Rosebud wrote a poem when we got home.



Monday, November 20, 2023

20 November 2023

We went to the National Zoo on Veterans' Day.  We missed the pandas because they changed the departure date on us :( but I hear that President Biden may have successfully negotiated a potential return.  The zoo was very nice, but not the nicest zoo we've been to.  We did love the naked mole rat exhibit.

And we sat on lots of animal statues:



And re-enacted Abbey Road.  Because Rose Pink has been listening to a podcast about whether or not Paul McCartney is actually dead.

Sunday, November 19, 2023

19 November 2023


Rosebud was selected to be one of four kids from her school with artwork on display at the county art show!  We're so proud of her!  She pays serious attention to her art, so it was really a pleasure to see that effort get rewarded.  Here she is with the artwork that will be displayed.  She had talked about this at home, and had even made another warm/cool color drawing at home.




 

Monday, November 6, 2023

Saturday, November 4, 2023

10 November 2023

School pictures! This is Bobo making his tortured face (he hates having his picture taken):

Here is Nut Brown looking handsome and grown up.  

And here is Rosebud doing the weird facial expression that she produces whenever she is instructed to smile:
Nut Brown did this too when he was her age.

 

4 November 2023

October was a really busy month for me this month and pretty much wore me out.  As the Primary president, I was in charge of a special Primary testimony meeting on October 22, and also of the ward Halloween party on October 28.  I looked forward to both of those events by completely dreading them, but they were apparently a lot of fun for everybody, so I'm glad about that.  For the Halloween party, we had a dance between chili cookoff and trunk-or-treating that was so much fun!  This year we dressed up as the ingredients for brownies!



For the trunk-or-treat, we carried the brownie theme further, by handing out Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies from a table full of kitchen items!  Rose Pink was largely responsible for most of the costumes, although I did the lettering for the chocolate and salt, and Mr. Brown made the egg that he's wearing.

We did carve pumpkins (although Bobo just drew on his because he doesn't like the smell) and I didn't really get any pictures.  (Did I mention it was a high stress time?) For actual trick-or-treating, the kids chose different costumes.  They looked great and came home with a ton of candy!  We were out with a group of friends, so that was really fun too.