The presidential election finally came in early November. President Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden and proceeded to throw a lengthy temper tantrum claiming fraud/cheating/etc.
Lily finally lost all 4 teeth that had been loose for ages. She continued to advance in tumbling and her handstand really improved. She gets so disappointed every time she gets hurt and exclaims "I just wish I could have one day without getting hurt!" I showed her a video of someone doing an aerial and she decided to just do them on the trampoline. She can't quite do it, but made a very impressive attempt!
We raked and played in leaves endlessly!
Due to all of our other Halloween activities, we never carved pumpkins. Lily and Becca held me to my promise so we finally carved theirs two weeks after.
Dale turned 37! He even let the kids help him build his "Lego" tank.
Cameron loved conducting several science experiments. After he learned about gingivitis from his art teacher he told her "gingivitis. PG-13!"
We had planned to spend Thanksgiving with the Ferrells, but their family got sick and due to Covid all of our plans were cancelled. Thankfully we had bought a turkey just in case and celebrated Thanksgiving as a family.
During the Thanksgiving holidays we got to watch a friend's alpacas. Cameron loved it. Kimball said they were evil. The girls wouldn't go anywhere near them. Shadow went into herding mode and the alpacas hated him.
The day after Thanksgiving we met up with Dale's brother's family at the Wichita Mountains for a hike. The boys abandoned us, Dale took Lily, and I had Becca. Poor Becca's legs just couldn't keep up. We were all exhausted by the time we got back to the van!
We stopped for burgers at a local burger joint and bid farewell.
On Sunday we started setting up for Christmas and got the tree up.
All the while we were still doing school, work and other adventures.
During "school", Kimball randomly called out "did you know peacocks can fly? I thought they were like ostriches with fancy tails." He wants a pet rat and spent hours researching all he could about them. He told us "Why do I have to clean my room? It's an expression of my art...disaster with a smidge of catastrophe."
Becca steals all of my dish towels to use as toy blankets. She can spell BECCA and insisted that her last name is Boodles. She told me one day "you're not a child of God. You're an adult of God".
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