I recently got a comment on the blog..."Where were the Scarborough's in November?" So, Mom here is your November post. This time of year is a busy year especially when you include Birthdays and the holidays. We have already posted about Pat's Marathon and buying a "choo choo", So here is the rest.
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| Andy making brownies for family home evening |
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| Helping mom with dishes. |
For my Birthday Patrick took me to a Korean restaurant in Manhattan. The food was excellent! Andy went to the Badger's for a few hours and then to the Hansen's. He enjoyed playing at both homes and I really appreciated them taking Andy so Pat and I could go out. Before we left I blew out my candle on a pumpkin Spice chocolate chip cookie, and opened presents from family. Thank you every one for giving me such a wonderful birthday.
The Holiday Train show at the New York Botanical Garden's opened, we attended the preview on the 19th. It is Pat's dream to have a set up like this.
We attended Donna's Thanksgiving Party. They always serve such yummy food! Andy stole one of Donn's roommate's hat.
One of the things Pat and Andy like to do together is eat hummus while watching TV.
We spent Thanksgiving Eve with my friend Crystal Ross and her family. Her Parents were in town, it was so good to see them again, they are such wonderful people and feel like family. Andy liked playing with Crystal's kids and their toys!
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| GRRR... don't mess with me I am a knight. |
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| Galloping through the apartment with Robert. |
Thanksgiving morning we woke up at 4:30, we picked up Donna and we were out the door walking to the subway by 5:30. Our plan was to get to the parade early enough to get a good seat. We were also meeting our Crystal, her family and Lesley and Arianne there. Unfortunately, thanks to a mistake made on our subway route and waiting for the train while trying to correct our mistake, we didn't get quite the seat we were hoping for and we weren't able to get to Crystal's family, but we were able to find Lesley and Arianne. We had a wonderful time watching the balloon's even though we were tired.
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| Donna and Lesley finishing up breakfast. |
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| Arianne with her free balloon. |
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| Pat and Andy waiting for the Parade to start. |
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| Arianne got a great seat and could see much more then the rest of us. |
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| Add Andy was jealous that he had to use a much shorter Mom for his seat, Although he was distracted by the giant balloons. |
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| He especially liked seeing Mickey Mouse. |
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| Donna loved the parade too. |
My baby turned two on the 29th. We had a shared birthday party with Breyton on the 27th. It was a lot of fun. Andy understood the whole birthday party thing much more then I thought he would, he really had a great time and so did Breyton. Thank you to all who were able to come!
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| Playing with Breyton's shake car track. Way cool!! |
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| Finding his sucker at the end of a string wearing his conductors cap. |
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| Waiting for his sucker to be opened. |
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| mmmm..... |
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| I am not a cake decorator, but I am quite proud for Andy's train cake. |
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| Another shot of the cake. |
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| Playing pin the face on Thomas the train. |
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| Evie shared her sucker... |
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| with everyone! She was doing her part to strengthen her friends Immunity systems. |
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| Cheese! |
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| Playing Don't Wake the Conductor. Andy was the conductor this round. |
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| Hot dogs for lunch! |
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| Andy getting ready to blow out his candle...unfortunately it fell before he could. See the video for his second attempt. |
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| So excited for cake! |
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| A combination of both Andy's and Breyton's Birthday gifts...We sure have generous friends! Thanks! |
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| All the kids where involved in unwrapping the gifts. Connor helped Andy with his and Kelsie and Leneah helped Breyton open his. It was a mad house of gift wrap. |
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| Andy's gift from mom and dad... |
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| His own wooden train set. |
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| After the party he wanted to play with it as soon as we got home. |
