Random November Happenings

Here are pictures of some of our random, miscellaneous activities of November:

Nov. 3

Erik took this picture of a beautiful double rainbow in our neighborhood.

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All of the loomed bracelets I had made in the past month. I had fun making them! The Mario one is Ian's and the donut one is Elisa's.

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Nov. 4

Elisa stayed up at least until midnight to finish some project for school that she neglected to tell me about and had ignored doing until the night before. And yep, she did spill black paint on her carpet!

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Nov. 5

I took Ian out shopping with me on a Saturday. We went to a few places including Michael's and then out last stop was Chick-fil-a. It was our first time eating inside the restaurant since before Covid. They remodeled and closed up the kid's play place. I'm glad my kids are passed that age--companies have been doing a lot of closing kid's areas down recently it seems. Anyway, Ian really enjoyed his day out with me, and he's always happy to eat Chick-fil-a!

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Nov. 8

Some good news about our school! Ms. Mead is Gabe and Ian's gifted teacher, and Ms. Harmon and Ms. Duran are Elisa's current teachers!

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Nov. 8

Elisa hanging out with her new bestie, Jayde. We took the kids to Cafe Rio for dinner. Elisa and Jayde been spending a lot of time together this year. Lots and lots of sleepovers!

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Nov. 9

Ian and Elisa joined KidStage again this year! The play was Mulan. Not my favorite story in any form, but whatever. Elisa didn't land the lead this year, but her character, Shang, had plenty of lines for Elisa to learn. Ian got the role of Quian Po, aka The Soldier Who Likes to Eat. Perfect for Ian, lol! I hosted a couple of extra KidStage practices and invited a few of the kids that lived close by and that we knew fairly well. Elisa's friend Jayde was Mulan and her other friend, Lily, was Mushu. Ian's friend was Shaun Yu (Hun leader). I was too distracted to get a picture of them practicing, darn it. The kids were so cute! There were several sicknesses going around and that time, so we didn't have all the kids together between the two practices, but I think it was helpful for them to work on their lines and cues and such.

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Nov. 10

Oh no! Ian caught somebody's something! Luckily it just lasted an evening and there was no school the next day. 

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Nov. 11

Erik made the last payment on our mortgage. We're finally debt free! We went to Disneyland to celebrate.

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Nov. 13

Baptism preview night! Ian sure had fun. They played a game where every time the word "baptism" was said, the first kid to raise their arm up received a Kit Kat bar. Ian got three! He was asked to play "When I Am Baptized" while the rest of us sang along. I found an easy version for him to play, and he took to it right away! He had the thing memorized in a week. I'm kind of irritated that nobody got any videos of him playing the song. I would have but I was busy making sure he played it okay, since this was the first time he played while others sang.

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Nov. 15

Gabe got to try out his hand at some woodworking for a Young Men's activity Tuesday night.

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Nov. 16

I told Lisa to get me a plant stand for Christmas. She obliged, but never told me when it was coming so I opened it. I figured I might as well get as much use out of it as possible, so I set it up. Its wobbly and probably should have been returned, but since it just sits there, no one can tell that its messed up.

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Nov. 14

A couple of fun shirts I ordered off of Amazon. The left (light blue) I originally ordered for Gabe, but he wasn't interested in it, so I kept it for myself. The sleeves were stupidly long, so I tried to hem them shorter, but it still looks stupid but hopefully no one can tell. The shirt on the right I bought and wore for Thanksgiving, but I wore a white cardigan over it (it was cold) so no one hardly saw it.

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Nov. 18

Talking maps with Grandma! They went over maps for like an hour lol. Ian loves maps!  He also really likes lists, he's a smart and silly boy.

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Nov. 18

Erik and Grandpa went out to get Pho for dinner (it took a long time, see above pic!). It was ok. I ordered the beef and the beef itself was nasty. The noodles and stuff were interesting and fun to try, but for the price (and the wait time) I don't think we'll be back.

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Erik bought this over-sized calendar for us sometime in September or October at Walmart. As you can see, November was a very busy month!

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Here's a video of Ian playing a song (Malaguena) from level 3A Piano adventures.