9 November 2008

Becky klept a great idea from Family Fun magazine to get the kids a piece of Election Night action. The kids nominated dinner choices for 4 catagories: main dish, side dish, drink and dessert. Becky made ballots with pictures so everyone could vote without help-- except for Gibson who was completely disenfranchised. Sophie is holding up her ballot in the photo below.


Here's a photo of Abe putting his ballot in the ballot box. We voted Monday night and ate our dinner Tuesday night as we watched the returns. The winners were chicken pot pie, mashed potatoes with gravy, smoothies and brownies with ice cream. It felt like a party to eat such a big dinner in the middle of the week. (It helped that our guy won.) The kids definitely want to do this again.


The kids love piling blankets and pillows at the bottom of the steps and jumping on them. They call this a "jumping case," so if you hear them say "Let's build a jumping case," this is what it means.


Sophie's turn to jump. It only took 18 tries to get a photo of someone in the air.

On Saturday, Sophie and Abe went to a pirate-themed birthday party. Becky asked them to scowl for the camera. Shiver me timbers! Them be fierce scalywags!