I can't believe that it is already December! November went by pretty quickly. The weather is definitely colder, particularly at night, but we have yet to see snow.
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| More leaves ready to be picked up! These are some I did, but the community crew came and raked some as well. |
Cyrus' family is leaving on Dec. 6th, so this week the movers were busy packing them up. Ryan was thrilled to have Cyrus come over to play after preschool so that he wouldn't be underfoot. Ryan is starting to get a little bit sad about Cyrus leaving. Even though Cyrus is only 3 1/2, the boys get along pretty well and he lives right across the street!
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| J and R playing with Cryus in the rocks. |
When our mail arrived on Monday, I was happy (for once) that we hadn't gotten very much. Everything had gotten very very wet from sitting out on the tarmac for heaven knows how long and it was absolutely soaked! Unfortunately, my book order was one of the things that arrived. About half of the books were quite wet. I dried them off as best as I could. While many aren't pretty, they can still be read. Justin could hardly wait for some of them to be dry enough to read.
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| I had a fan blowing on the books all night. It seemed to help. |
Thursday was Thanksgiving. Rob and I went over the many Thanksgivings we have had since we have been married and realize that very few have been traditional. Those that were usually were only because we were in the US with family. A big Thanksgiving meal for the four of us (with only two of us really eating much of it) seemed a bit much. We decided that we will do the whole turkey thing over New Year's when Rob has three days off. Instead we did what we did for our first Thanksgiving--pizza and pies! Of course it isn't like Papa John's delivers here, so Rob made homemade pizza. :) We opened our pizza stone (Christmas present) early so we could have the best pizza possible. I made cherry and pumpkin pies. We also had chips and onion dip. Justin came home from school and we had an early dinner together while we watched one of the Shrek movies on TV. Definitely not the Thanksgiving most people picture, but it was relaxing and we enjoyed it.
Friday Rob and I went out to the mall to see a new grocery store. We rarely go to the mall because there is nothing there that we would want to buy. It is easy enough to get to though, so we went to see if the grocery store was any good. It has nice wide aisles, but it isn't any better than the closer store in terms of stocking products we want.
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| The mall on Black Friday. |
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| Either they haven't stocked yet for the day (but they have been open at least an hour!) or they are out of a lot of produce. Neither thing would be unusual. |
In the evening we had a 6:00 PM dentist appointment for Ryan. He had been complaining about a tooth when he ate. Sure enough, he had a cavity in a back tooth. We spent an hour an a half at the dentist getting it taken care of. I was SO proud of him! He was nervous going in, but he was brave and very well behaved. The pediatric dentist doesn't speak much English, but someone else came in to talk with us and explain what needed to be done. While working on Ryan, the dentist often told him that he was a good boy and that he was being brave. Sometimes she just spoke in a soothing voice in Armenian. I was standing right there too and tried to distract him when he looked like he was getting upset or scared. The bill came in at under $40 and it looked just as modern as the dentist we go to in the US. Yay! Not that I hope we have to go in to see her a lot, but we know a dentist for the boys now. Justin was playing on my phone in the waiting room or I would have taken a picture.
We went to KFC for dinner because it was dinner time and KFC was just up the street. We ordered Ryan ice cream and pineapple juice so he wouldn't chew on his numbed cheek. Looks like he did that later on in his sleep anyway. :(
On Saturday I went with Ryan to a birthday party. The girl's birthday is the same day as his so I was hoping it wouldn't upset him that he isn't having a party. He enjoyed the party and doesn't seem to care that he isn't having a party. I said that he can take cupcakes to school and that he and I will spend the day doing things that he likes to do. Maybe a party next year...
I was also able to get an all important video clip of Justin giving me permission to give him hugs and kisses even when he gets older. I already had one of Ryan. These things will be important for me to have in the future. I keep getting an upload error, so here is the link.
