The Mini's brought two movies to watch with Claude and me. One was "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". Andie has been reading the Chronicles of Narnia to the kids and they got the movie from Netflix after reading the book. It was very well done. We also got to see Brave for the first time. Hayden and Bailey love that movie. Bailey was even Merida for Halloween. As I watched the movie, I was able to understand why Bailey loves that character. They are a lot alike.
In addition to the movies, we spent some time down the hill playing on our neighbors swingset, playing Harry Potter Uno, adding another layer of paint to our birdhouses, swimming in the big tub, and an afternoon at Explorium in Lexington.
Food was in abundance. I baked my chocolate cake for dessert on Wednesday and left it for the kids to ice while I was in Georgetown singing with Papa. Such an icing job you can't even imagine. Then Michael pestered me all night because he wanted to eat it. I think he really just wanted to pester me. We had ham Wednesday night so we could eat it as sandwiches on Thursday. Claude smoked a wonderful turkey for our Thanksgiving feast giving us more sandwich possibilities on Friday. Claude even introduced two new recipes that we will definitely use again. One was a new stuffing recipe and the other was for mashed potatoes. I prepared my friends sweet potato souffle that I love and had never prepared for the family. All three of these recipes were very much enjoyed. Claude also had another recipe that Andie sent him for a jalapeno bread appetizer thing. Andie made that and we all pronounced that one great as well. Andie had a breakfast recipe using a baked potato stuffed with breakfast things. That was also a keeper. I can definitely pronounce this Thanksgiving a gastronomicaldelicatessenepicureandelight. (That word was borrowed from a restaurant we ate at in California.)
Friday Andie was trying to come down with a cold. We provided an afternoon nap that helped her a lot. The Mini's and I spent the afternoon in the basement entertaining ourselves with video and games. Papa was also dealing with a head ache so he did not come out that day.
Saturday Andie and Michael had an afternoon date. Claude and I took the Mini's for the afternoon. Andie purchased tickets through Groupon to the Explorium in Lexington. We switched cars so we had the car seats for the Mini's and we were off to Lexington.
Claude had free dinner cards for Cici's pizza so we went there first. The Mini's were so very happy with this idea. It had become a tradition to take grandmonsters to the Cici's in Georgetown when they came but that Cici's closed down. It was great fun to get to do this fun outing again with Hayden and Bailey. Claude brought quarters for the games and the Mini's were told that, if they ate well, they could play the games. Such diligent little diners they became. The cute thing was the music. Music was playing that sounded like the drums they play on Jamaica or one of the Caribbean islands. These two little bodies were in motion to the rhythm of that music the entire time they ate. So cute. Then Pa (Claude) took them to the game room and they each picked out what they wanted to play. Hayden tried everything you could drive. Bailey played Skeeball and that arm that gabs toys game. She was very happy with all her little treasures.
After lunch we found the Explorium and spent the bulk of our afternoon there. The highlights seemed to be the big set of teeth, the puppet theater where they made their own puppet show, the bubble room and the computers in the dinosaur and bug areas. Hayden did a fair amount of spinning on that piece of equipment.
The other really cute thing in the bubble room was the mirrors. You know those mirrors that make you short or fat or tall or whatever. Bailey cracked me up when her head got really big at one point in the mirror. She kept going back and forth to make it big. Hayden had me wondering what he was doing. He found the mirrors and started running back and forth and looking at himself as he ran past this one long mirror. It turns out he thought it looked like apparating in Harry Potter.
When it was time to leave, Pa let them each buy a toy in the gift shop. They each chose a very long stuffed snake. They wrapped them around there necks and enjoyed them very much.
On the way home we stopped at Wendy's for a frosty to end our day. Great fun.
It was a lovely Thanksgiving.
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