We had a good Thanksgiving holiday.  Unfortunately, Austin got sick Thursday night and couldn't keep anything down until Saturday night.  He is feeling better now though.  Here's a couple pictures from Thanksgiving morning.  Gavin was watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Monet hatched!  And he was beautiful.  We fed him honey water for a couple days and then let him go.

We got our Christmas decorations and Christmas tree.  Gavin was actually helpful when it came to decorating this year.

Yesterday we did a little school.  Just reading, cursive handwriting and telling time to 5-minute intervals.  We read two books about teeth.  We are officially done with the human body in science.  We will be learning about weather starting in January.

Since Gavin has Awanas tonight, we celebrated Dad's birthday dinner a night early.  We had Italian sausage soup with salad and bread and a chocolate layer cake with chocolate frosting.  Austin, as always, was a big fan of the cake!

Here are the books we read.

I put up our 25 Days of Christmas tree this morning.  We will start tomorrow.  Today we will finish Colonial America so starting tomorrow we will just do a short phonics/cursive and maybe some math reviewing.  Then we will do our Christmas activity which will be different each day.  We won't have a poem, artist or composer this month but we will be listening to Christmas songs! 

You can't tell from the picture, but there is a number on the front of each ornament and an activity on the back.  Each day we will take that day's ornament off the tree and do whatever is on the back.  Hopefully this will be fun and not become cumbersome.  I tried to plan short/easy activities on days when I knew we had something else going on.

The boys got into their sister's hair bows this morning and were running around the house in them!

Here are the books we read today.

We are done with Colonial America!  We are still reading The Matchlock Gun before bed but will be done in a few days.  It's a true story about the French and Indian War.