Pies, Turkeys, and Boxcar Races.

Every November, the kids help Grandma Morwood make pies for Thanksgiving.  They have so much fun wearing aprons and rolling out the dough with their little rolling pins.  They look forward to this fun day all year.

This year Emily even learned how to put the pie dough in the pan and prepare the crust.  Grandma showed her how to trim the excess dough from the sides, prick the dough on the bottom of the pan to get out the air, and use her thumbs to create the crust edge.  We love helping Grandma.

Also, to be festive this month, we made turkeys out of stuff we found at the park during playgroup:

These turkeys were so easy and fun to make.  We just found pine cones and colorful Fall leaves.  The kids had fun making their own by putting the leaves in the pine cone.  Then we added googly eyes and a foam beak and gobbler to complete the look.

We love how they turned out and they will be a perfect table centerpiece until Thanksgiving.

Another fun thing the kids made was boxcars.

For Scouts the boys made cars our of boxes and then at Pack Meeting had a boxcar derby.  They raced in their boxes around the track and had to make pit stops for refueling (water), tire changes (taking off their shoes and then putting them back on), and washing their windshields (spraying and wiping off their safety glasses).  This Pack Meeting was so much fun.  All of the boys had a good time (even the one that puked because he drank too much water...).  Later the kids decided they wanted to make their own boxcars like the Scouts.  They found their own boxes and made their own cars.  All I helped with was tying the strings to make straps for their arms.  Emily taped on her own wings.  They colored their boxes with markers.  Then it was race time so we went outside and they raced all over the backyard.  They love these cars!  Even Logan wore his all over the place.  It is amazing what kids can come up with when they are given a cardboard box!

Here is another funny time at the Farnsworth house:

So the kids were playing with babies when it got really quiet.  If you are a parent you know "quiet" is never a good sign.  So I went to find them and they were in the bathroom with diapers spread all over the floor!  Colby shows me his doll and says "My baby was stinky and needed a diaper!"  He was so proud of how well he had put on the babies diaper, I couldn't help but laugh.  Then he proceeded to show Logan how to put a diaper on his cow doll and then showed Emily how to do it.  What little stinkers.  It is times like this that make parenthood  little easier,