Pudge turns 8!

Pudge’s birthday fell on the kids’ Thanksgiving break so he got a few extra days to celebrate after Thanksgiving Day. 

Over the weekend he watched The Lion King 2, ate seafood, had a family dance party, 

Spent the morning looking at animals at one of the local pet stores...

He came home with 5 hermit crabs but wanted every animal in the store!

He got TWO cakes! Mama made him a strawberry and chocolate cake with chocolate whipped cream, fruit, and shredded coconut 

Then the next night was an Oreo cake with doughnuts on top (this is the cake thatbhe has requested for his birthday after seeing that Little Bear had a similar one years ago in one of our blog books).

and he spent a lot of time reading his new Dog Man series books. 

Cardboard City

Pudge’s grade had a really fun event at school where they made a world from recycled objects and crafts. The kids were broken into groups and assigned a building that would be found in a community (farm, store, school, firehouse, etc) to make as a group and then they each made an individual house. The parents were able to help but the kids were to mostly create them on their own and at the end everything was placed together to make a community.

His group was assigned a “store” and they decided to make it Target.

A weekend with Grandma

Grandma came down to visit Saturday evening at dinner time and stayed until Monday. Saturday, we had dinner and then went downstairs for the kids to play pool with her and then watch Mr. Bean while munching on popcorn.

Sunday morning, we made apple cinnamon oatmeal and cinnamon sugar biscuits and the adults relaxed by the fire while the kids ran around outside.  

The kids later convinced Grandma to play soccer with then in the morning.


In the afternoon, we checked the trail cameras and saw that we had a lot of deer, bunny, and squirrel visitors recently. We did some yard work and moved the outdoor furniture back into the sun room after lunch. The kids spent the afternoon playing pool and with play dough with Grandma. 

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