November was a fairly relaxed month for you. Only you, though. Everyone else had adjustments happening. But your days seemed to roll along without many speed bumps.
The thing you said the most in November: I want a treat from my Trick-or-Treat bag!
The furniture and boxes from the Madison house arrived, about two weeks earlier than I had expected them. So everything else was suddenly thrown back into frantic unpacking mode. The garage went from almost organized to just full of boxes again. It took the rest of the month to regain any kind of order to the place. We finally have furniture in the living room. You like that mainly because you have more places to line up your dinosaurs. Grandma and I spent a lot of time unpacking kitchen things, and wishing we knew someone who needed kitchen things. Corbin liked unpacking all of the toys. You were happy to adopt all of the stuffed animals that we found, but most of the Madison toys are for older kids, and not that interesting to you.
You are still an outside child. You love to walk to the playground, climb on the big rocks, and climb on the climbing wall. You like to play Mama Bird and Baby Bird and find pretend worms to eat. You like to take the dogs to the dog park. You even like to run errands with us, which is quite a change from your brother.
You do a lot of singing lately. You know a lot of songs that Grandpa sings to you. Sometimes you sing the words, and sometimes you just sing nonsense to the tune. One day I sang you the Little Bunny Fu-Fu song. You thought it was funny, until I did the hand gestures, too. Then you said, "I don't like the bopping on the head!" So then I sang it with just the bunny ears. Then you would get impatient, and not let Bunny Fu-Fu have three chances from the Good Fairy. You wanted to skip ahead to the part where I said, "Poof!" and he turned into a goon. Then there was the time when I paused, and you thought I was done. You told me, "You forgot the moral of the story part!" That made me laugh.
Your days got a new routine because of Corbin switching to the new school. It seems to be good for you, since he's in class when you're getting ready for your nap. There are still days when you don't nap, but they are growing fewer. Your bedtime routine continues to be good, as well. Now if we could just solve the riddle of when you decide to eat or not, it would all be clear sailing. We tried out some restaurants around us on the weekends. Sometimes you sit and eat and eat and eat. Sometimes we have to take turns between eating and wrestling with you because you couldn't possibly sit still. Some nights, I just went ahead and fed you your dinner for your bedtime snack.
The month ended with Thanksgiving, of course. We were very relaxed this year. Grandma and Grandpa drove down to San Diego to visit with Uncle Alex and Aunt Lena. Corbin and Dad did the grocery shopping, as evidenced by the giant turkey balloon which came home with them. Corbin named it the Perky Turkey Who Loves Humans, but you mainly called it the Turkey Balloon. I don't know if that's because you thought the name was too long, of if you didn't actually realize that was its name. We haven't had a balloon around in a long time, so you two had lots of fun with it. And then we cooked a small turkey breast roast, which turned out quite well, and had sweet potatoes and pie and it was very nice. Our first Thanksgiving in our new house. I look forward to many more.
Love,
Mom
The living room taking shape:
The dining room totally out of shape:
Pig pile on Dad:
The Turkey Balloon:
Happy girl:
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