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Catching up on some old stuff before the Christmas glut.

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- S.

Thanksgiving and The Tooth

Derrick and I attended the Thanksgiving All-School Meeting at Jack's school on Monday.  Kids sang songs or read poems or said what they were thankful for.  Jack's class did a silly poem about turkeys which they all recited together while wearing turkey hats that they made in class.

Tooth update!  Jack lost his wiggly tooth tonight.  You can see the new tooth has already almost taken over in the back.  Also, the tooth to the right of the now missing one is loose as well and he has another new tooth poking through.  Double the fun.  

Happy Thanksgiving!

- S.

Halloween

Halloween was a bit haphazard this year, so there aren't many photos and the ones that exist aren't great.  Jack wanted to be a gorilla this year and the costume was obtained well before Halloween.  He was eager to get in costume and get to the trick or treating after dinner.  

 Jack was much better this year at saying "trick or treat" and "thank you" at the houses we went to and was more confident overall in going up to the houses to ring the bells on his own.

We covered slightly more neighborhood than last year, but after 30-40 minutes Jack was done and wanted to go home.

 Jack took some time to sort out his candy and enjoyed passing out candy to trick or treaters that came to our door.

It was even kind of warm enough outside to run off some of that sugar in jammies, and pose with the jack o lanterns for five seconds.

- S.

Thanksgiving #1

A couple of weeks ago we drove down to NJ for our first of three Thanksgivings.

Jack got in some construction work.

 Derrick passed on to the next generation the task of making mashed potatoes.

We went to a pumpkin patch and Jack gave us his best pout-smile.

That's a little better.

- S.

Dr. Teeth, Round Two

When I picked up Jack from school yesterday the first thing he said was, "Guess what!  I have a loose tooth!"  

For some reason, more so than Jack turning five, or growing one full inch in the month of September, or starting Kindergarten, this elicited feelings of, "My baby is growing up!" 

Wiggle, wiggle

Yes, you did need a close up view of Jack's mouth and The Tooth.

The now wiggly tooth first made its appearance way back in early 2013.

A good run!

So, Jack has been feeling a bit crummy and eating more carefully the past two days which we are attributing to The Tooth.  But at least now he can communicate what hurts and will willingly take Tylenol if needed, unlike the teething days.  And there is no drooling this time around.  Yet.

- S.

Fair

The Topsfield Fair has come and gone.  Jack got to go twice this year, once with us and once with Nana while Derrick and I escaped to celebrate our anniversary for the weekend.  We all went together on the first Saturday to see monster trucks, but got to do a few other things as well.

We viewed some interesting poultry.

Jack was very patient waiting for the monster truck show to start.

It helped that dad got popcorn and cider to share.

Monster trucks.  

Jack got the panda this year.

Pew, pew!

Favorite pumpkin

Nice pose in front of the giant pumpkin.

We did not attend the parade at Great Nana's like usual this year because Jack had soccer in the morning and we also wanted to attend the monster truck extravaganza which wasn't until late in the afternoon.  But we did not miss out of fried dough because Nana saved us some to eat after we retuned from the Fair.  

Here is Jack at Great Nana's enjoying his dough and watching Nana fry up some more.

- S. 

Checkup

Jack had his year five checkup last week.  He weighed in at just under 51 pounds and is now 3' 10.25" tall.  He had to get his polio shot which he was not happy about, but when the time came he did great and he got a cute band aid with dogs on it which he bravely ripped off himself that night.  The doctor's assessment was, "Keep doing what you're doing, he's doing great!"

Here is Jack at his year one checkup when he weighed half what he does now.

- S.