Road Trips and Eating

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! We started our rituals early this year. How many of you will look like this on Thursday? Believe me he thoroughly enjoyed his treats before he passed out. I hope you all do too!

Lessons from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

My boys have been really into Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the past few months. Here are some things they have learned:

Everybody is different. Some people are bashful, some grumpy, some happy, etc. They love to imitate the different personalities of the dwarfs.

Soup is good. Sam loves soup now because they eat it on that movie and get really excited when she is making it. Matthew too, but Spencer is not convinced yet. He likes to play Grumpy when it is soup night.

My boys learned how to wash properly from this movie. I know that sounds weird, but they have a whole scene showing them how to use soap and rinse it off. They love to imitate the wash scene in the bath, it is really cute.

Don't talk to strangers, mean people can disguise themselves as nice. That witch is pretty scary!

Also, I don't know if this has sunk in yet, but I like how the dwarfs treat Snow White. They adore her and fight over who can help her. Of course they only let her stay because she promised to clean and cook. Hmmm, well at least they appreciated her cooking!

Sesame Street

This show absolutely blows me away. It is so full of adult humor and story lines, it is great! Has anybody been watching this? I just watched an Indiana Jones Skit totally making fun of the whole movie premise and now Feist is on singing her 1234 song and changing the words to be about how much she loves counting. Brilliant! Last week I saw Law and Order:SLU (Special Letter Unit) with all the characters from the show in puppet form including the classic sound effects. They were investigating a case about a missing letter L. It was awesome! A few months ago they did The Office with Michael, Jim, Pam, and the whole crew as puppets. I practically fell off my chair it was so funny. Also last week they did Meal or no Meal. It was genius. The banker was the baker. The contestant was going crazy and losing it because she didn't know whether to take a snack now or hold out for a whole meal. She was fainting and going nuts. Loved it. Not to mention the famous people they have singing silly songs and being hilarious. You think Alec Baldwin is funny on 30 Rock? Sesame Street. Check it out.

Hey Look at Me!

Halloween

The boys had a great time. Look Dixie, Buzz Lightyear lives on! Matthew is candy crazy. The weather was so nice. I made them wear sweatshirts under their costumes but I think they came home because they were too hot! We ran out of candy here and had to turn out our lights, but overall a great night!