Saturday Paturday

"Saturday Paturday," says Beau.  He loves that he has figured out how to rhyme but mostly will only make the rhyming word begin with the letter P.  I'm not sure about his love of the letter P, but it's pretty funny.  He does it with everything: lemonade pemonade (one of his most favorites), love you pove you, ham pam, hockey pockey, and on and on!  Anyway we had a fun Saturday Paturday.  We went to the International Christmas Market at our church in the morning and bought a few Christmas gifts.  We also bought a new kid-friendly nativity set.  After a rest (and a run for Mommy even though it was super windy), we went outside to play.  Beau grabbed his two most essential toys right now - a ball and a shooter gun. 

We did lots of ball playing that's for sure.  Linc learned how to throw a football correctly, but we still have a lot of work to do on catching it.  The most fun part is the running around like crazy.  They had some teamwork thing going on with sticks and carrying them backwards up the slide.  It kept them busy for almost an hour!  A little swinging is always necessary, and they sang songs to pay me for swinging them! 

I got to enjoy the many colors of the changing leaves on my run, but this golden stunner is right in our back yard.  Just in the last week the leaves have completely changed from green.  Lincoln and Beau loved that the wind was blowing the leaves down from tree and swirling them around.  "It's raining leaves," they cried! 

Lincoln is obsessed with writing letters right now.  He's known how to write all of his letters for over a year, but a couple of them looked kind of funny.  Also, he holds the pencil (crayon, marker, whatever) strangely.  So his teacher suggested a pencil grip that he can rest his fingers on in the correct position, and his penmanship has improved so much!  He's showing that off by writing letters to people.  He tells me what words he wants to write, and I tell him the letters.  This particular letter was to Aunt Sarah.  (Actually he told me he wanted to write a letter to Sarah Patsy Barbara, but I explained to him that they weren't one unit but individual people.  So Sarah was first!)  Everyone should keep an eye out for mail from Lincoln, and take note that he REALLY likes it when he gets a response letter. 

We went down to this fun food truck place for dinner called Truck Yard.  We found a few lawn chairs and got settled in.  The kids had asked for Chick-fil-A on the way, but Daddy and Mommy tried out a few yummies from the trucks.  We had cheesesteaks, bbq and mac & cheese, and it was all really good (and really not light on calories, hence the 3.5 mile run earlier).  It was fun to sit outside for a picnic dinner under the Christmas lights in this nice weather.  I got two sweet smiley boys!

The boys dug into their Chick-fil-A right away, but Mommy and Daddy's food took longer.  By the time we had eaten, they were a little less than excited about being there!  The windmill wasn't as cool to look at anymore, the lights weren't as twinkle-y as before, and the Hershey bar treats in the car were calling their names! 

Who wants to see a picture of two bored little boys?  I guess me because their expressions make me laugh.  Luckily we didn't torture them for much longer.  They enjoyed their little chocolates in the car and busted out their superhero capes until it was time for bed.  It was a fun day for all!