late november 2015, part 2: family

[i'm going to try to finish out 2015, then we'll just have to skip up to the present, since school has started!]

not shown: kids helping themselves to cocoa puffs while the adults slept in.. ;-)

 

finding a use for Styrofoam peanuts

lunch at the Mason Jar in Benton harbor

let me try that thumb...

thumb war

always a dumpling night

the next morning:

outfits nai nai brought back from Mongolia a few years back

down to silver beach, but the carousel was closed

escaped the cold into curious kids' museum

 

 



we've gotten our money's worth out of this stroller, for sure

some sleepy kiddos

 

I can't remember if they were trying to spell something or..

3-D scenes from ah gong

dinner at Schu's - too bad daddy got called into work

thanksgiving morning

some post-meal mahjong

big ole' tree downtown.  caught the carousel this time

delighted with the shakers

goodbyes, all too soon

playing with daddy's antique mall find

 

having cousins visiting is tiring business ;-)

earned a little money from ah gong for sewing his button back on

which started a sewing craze

giving daddy a sewing project

if you can't sew, cut

 



demonstrating the drill, as he put up the schoolroom table, chalkboard and bulletin boards