Slime Slumber Party

Esperanza and Olivia had an overnight slime party. They spent hours and hours and hours making and playing with slime. They watched some tv, played some video games, played with legos and did whatever else little 10 year old girls do. But mostly, they made slime.

Our Cats, Lucy and Kit-Kat

Lucy is 15. Kit-Kat is probably 2. 

Lucy tolerates Kit-Kat. Kit-Kat doesn't pay Lucy much attention. 

Kit-Kat has wasted no time settling comfortably into his new home. After feeding him outside for 8 months and slowly gaining his trust, and him gaining mine, I started letting him stay inside. He couldn't be happier. He sleeps all day, and mostly all night. He eats a lot and is getting fat and lazy. He has a lump in his belly and I plan to take him in soon to get it looked at. It doesn't seem to be bothered by it thankfully. He has taken over my bed, and Lucy has left.

Lucy is getting old. I feel bad for bringing in a new cat. She hates other cats. Kit-Kat she doesn't hate though. She swats and hisses at him at times, but she doesn't attack and growl like she does other cats. She puts up with his presence. So, we adopted a stray cat.

November Field Trips With Ezra

Ezra and I did some fun things this last month. Among many other outings, like library, cousins houses, lego store, etc, here are a few different ones to remember. 

Ezra earned himself a free personal pizza by reading so we cashed in that coupon at Pizza Hut one day. We went on a walk through the back field to the store one day. On a sunny but chilly day we took a walk along over the land bridge and back, played at the park, collected some leaves (for the next days adventure) and got cinnamon rolls. The next day we went to the Pearson Air Museum, the Fort Vancouver National Park Visitor Center and got our passports stamped, played at the park again and then went to a homeschool group science class. 

Knitting New Hats

I've been back to knitting hats. I've started a bunch of baby hats, since we've had a bunch of babies born this year. For Sebastian, Bernardo and Jayden I made hats out of a blue/green wool/acrylic blend. I had made a gray mohair hat for Sebatian, but his head grew too fast so it became a hat for Lucy (Esperanza's decision). For Cathy's baby Moria I have cotton/wool blend pink hat and I still need to get a yarn for Selena's baby. 

I also made a hat for Ezra out of the same yard I used to crochet his blanket last year. He uses it for everything except to keep his head warm. And then the ruffled edge funky elfish hat that took 2 years, is finally finished. I used a bunch of left over wool yarn from other projects and made it. Hopefully these hats will keep some heads warm this winter.

 Sebastian

 Jayden

Thanksgiving 2018

For Thanksgiving this year the kids, Armando and I drove down to Eugene and spent the Wednesday and Thursday with Geneva, her kids and her dogs. We slept at a cute little hotel down the road from her house but spent most of our time at her house. We went to an interesting pizza and video game place on Wednesday evening where we visited, drank beer, ate pizza and the little kids played video games. We picked Antonio up from the train station that evening too. On Thursday we hung out and visited, drank mimosas, Antonio baked some cookies and we ate Thanksgiving dinner at a hole in the wall place that we thought was going to be nicer than it really was. It turned out to be the perfect visit. 

On Friday we got together at Araceli's house to have food and family time. There was a lot of babies, lots of toddlers and a lot of food!