Playing at Home

Cael has quite the imagination,

and he uses it to entertain himself when we are at home.

I constantly discover him playing

in funny and interesting ways.

Three Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies and One Goofy Cael

For Family Home Evening,

we decorated sugar cookies to look like turkeys.

From left to right: Cael's, Mom's, and Dad's
(Dad said his different colored feather is his gray hair.)

After decorating our cookies,

Cael wanted to pose for pictures making silly faces.

"Charge!"

Ever since watching the Charlie Brown Halloween special this year, and reading it over and over on Mom's Kindle, Cael has been wanting to jump in a pile of leaves. He had to wait for awhile because the leaves didn't fall off our tree until later than usual this fall.

This past week, we went outside, Mom raked up a nice pile for jumping, and off he went. He yelled "Charge!" like Linus does, jumped into the leaves, and then, also quoting Linus, exclaimed, "Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker!" A couple of times, he even pretended to be licking a sucker prior to running and jumping into the leaves. What a ham he is!

My first wood-getting trip.

I watched Dad sharpen his see-saw.

I helped stack some wood in the back of Grandpa's truck.

I rode with Mom in the back of the truck while Dad looked for more dead Juniper to cut.

I watched Mom cut down a tree with her chain saw.

I helped Mom cut for a second, but I didn't like all the corn (Mom told me it was sawdust.) that flew into my face, so I went back to the safety of the pickup bed.



"But I want to stay 100 nights."

Staying warm

Matching suspenders with Great-grandpa

At Jalen's birthday party, helping him open his presents

For Cael's November weekend in Holbrook, he got to stay three nights due to the Veterans' Day holiday weekend. He loves it there so much that, when he returned home to his mom and dad, he told them he wanted to stay in Holbrook for 100 nights. We just can't compete with them.

Cael was so excited to see Jalen, who has been away at college. When we told him Jalen was coming home for his birthday, Cael's face lit up as he asked, "He is?"

The Tale of the First Lie

One November night,

Cael was eating a tortilla for dinner.

When his mom and dad asked him

if he finished eating it,

he said yes.

"You ate it all?" Mom questioned, to make sure.

"Yes!"

"Good job, buddy," congratulated his parents.

We thought he had downed it rather quickly,

but we had no reason to doubt him

when he told us he had eaten it all.

The following day, Mom walked by the table

and saw something near Cael's place mat.

She went to get the small piece of trash

to throw it away, but when she tried to pick

it up, a partial tortilla appeared from

beneath the innocent Mickey Mouse mat.

Mom could not believe her eyes.

Her trustworthy four-year-old son

had deceived them.

When Mom asked Cael,

"What is that?"

he proceeded to pick it up and eat the stale treat.

That's a Hancock for you.

A Handyween

 Cael was Handy Manny for Halloween this year,

and we were his tools,

Pat (the hammer)

and Felipe (the Phillips screwdriver).

We had a grand time dressing up

and attending the Halloween Costume parade

and trick-or-treating.

 

Nice eyebrows