Decorating gingerbread houses (and gingerbread men) at the WAC.
Cozi Lego Parade. November seems to be ending up with Lego theme. At Cozi, the team wants to celebrate having reached some business goals by throwing a party. Two people conspire to hold a Lego building competition. Jan shapes this into a plan for a Cozi Lego Parade. The 30-odd folks at Cozi are divided into five teams. Each team has to modify a stock Lego remote-control car kit to create a parade float. The float should follow the parade them of “family life”. At the end of the hour, all the teams have to roll out their parade float and drive it along a designated parade route. Each team had a pile of Lego blocks of a specific color. Here the white team constructs a Las Vegas wedding chapel on wheels.
An early snowstorm hits just a few days before our traditional post-Thanksgiving kiwi harvest. The girls help Jan pull down the kiwi in the dark in attempt to salvage some of the crop.
Anya’s loving the piano these days. Whenever we’re leaving the house and say, “Okay, let’s get ready to go!”, Anya runs straight for the piano and begins to play.
We go into town for supplies.
(Bree insists on traveling with Lambie tucked inside her coat.)
Thanksgiving. We have Angela’s cousin Ty’s family over, along with Jan’s coworker Aarati and her husband Parag. The girls have fun playing with Ty and Susana’s daughter Zoe. All the food turns out great, and the ten of us sit down to a snug gathering around our dinner table. Aarati baked a corncob-shaped cake with marzipan leaves — Bree ate all the marzipan she could get her hands on.
We go on our first all-family movie outing to see “Tangled”, an animation retelling the story of Rapunzel. Everyone’s happy with the movie (and prodigious amounts of candy). Bree was only scared by a few parts, but was comforted by spending most of the movie in Angela’s lap.