What's for dessert? Spinach!!

A book we love to read at home is called "Little Pea"

In this book, Little Pea has a great life as a pea and gets to do all kinds of fun stuff.  But the one bad thing about being a pea is that every night for dinner he has to eat... candy.  His mom says that before he can have dessert he has to eat all the candy on his plate.  So he forces it down.  Because once he finishes all his candy, only then does he get to have his dessert.  And what's his favorite dessert?  Spinach!!  After Little Pea scarfs down his bowl of spinach he says, "Yum, yum, extra yum." :)

Last week, after we finished dinner, John asked if he could have dessert.   Tim told him excitedly, "Tonight for dessert we are having spinach!"  John fed right off this excitement and said "I love spinach!!  Brielle, we're going to have spinach for dessert!"  Brielle was not interested, but fortunately that wasn't enough to stop John's excitement.  Tim got out the spinach and John happily ate 3 leaves :)

John's scuba-diving clothes :)

I ordred long underwear for the kids from landsend.com since I thought it was time they had better "wicking" layers for the upcoming winter... versus cotton.  

When the box arrived, John & Brielle were excited to try on their new long underwear.  It's a polyester material, and it is kind of shiny.  John, all on his own, told us it was his "scuba diving clothes"!  He kept telling us over & over that he's going to wear it for scuba diving!  And he didn't want us to call it "long underwear."  He'd say, "NO! It's for scuba diving."  

Brielle & Willa

  When Tim picks the kids up from Becky's house, he sometimes comes home with a couple extra kids :).  The same thing often happens to Jolene, as all of the cousins like playing at each other's houses.

On this day, when Tim was picking up Brielle & John, Willa said "Can I go with you Tim?"  And it worked perfect since Natalie had to take Aloysius for his 1 year check-up that afternoon.  So Willa came over for a couple hours to play & she joined us for dinner.  

More photos from November

Styling a new outfit...   Brielle was very excited about the sparkles on her tights and the belt on her sweater dress. She said she wants Santa to bring her another new belt for Christmas :)

Then John wanted his photo taken :)

Brielle likes to play a few kid games on Tim's iPod Touch.  

She's a good big sister and shows John how to play... and lets him watch over her shoulder the whole time that she plays.  John has figured out how to play a couple games on his own.  It's so funny to watch their little fingers at work :)

Trick or Treat

(Obviously I'm a little behind, but I couldn't skip these... )   

Here are some photos from our night of Trick-or-Treating

**Rapunzel & Batman**

And who is that scary person on the left? 

Grandma Carol!

And the next week this conversation took place:

John: "Grandma, what were you dressed like?"

            Carol: "I was a bad guy."

John: "Yes, you were a bad guy. I did not know who you were. You tried to scare me. You were all black with red eyes."

Headed to the first house of the night:

This was a fun year of trick-or-treating as John & Brielle learned:  if lights are on, you can stop at that house; if no lights are on, you cannot trick-or-treat there.  After figuring this out, they liked telling us which houses they could go to, and which ones they could not.  They also had fun seeing the Halloween decorations throughout the neighborhood and figuring out the costumes of all the other kids.  

And one hour later they told us they were ready to go home.  

This is one of the last houses we stopped at:

 Back at home with their candy:

Since there was still one hour of trick-or-treating left, John & Brielle had fun hearing our door bell ring a lot, and then running to help Grandma Carol pass out candy.  It was just as fun as trick-or-treating themselves :)