I hope that all our family and friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had a nice Thanksgiving spent at David's parents house. We enjoyed a nice turkey dinner and the kids enjoyed spending time at Grandma & Grandpa's. Unfortunately, Great-Grandma was not feeling well and we hope she gets to feeling better soon.
We are spending Sunday with my parents, grandparents and siblings and are looking forward to spending the day all together over turkey and all the fixings. I got the news today that "Tom the Turkey" has met the butchers block and is ready to go for Sunday dinner. I told my mom that it makes thinking about that turkey dinner a little different knowing that the turkey had once lived there on the farm. Poor Tom!

I dropped Peyton off at school on Tuesday and learned that he is starting to show a side of himself that the teachers have not seen yet. He is still behaving, but he got caught tackling another classmate on the playground. The story has it that he was actually defending one of his friends, but the teacher let him know that instead of taking matters into his own hands that he should let the teacher handle it. She said a little of his ornery side that I've been describing has come out a bit - hopefully, he will keep it under control at school and not show himself too much.
Peyton woke me up early this morning and we watched cartoons quietly on the couch together. It was about an hour later when the others started slowing making their way down and how things turned - I asked Peyton "What happened to that sweet little boy that was spending time with me earlier?" He just looked at me with this little smile and said 'He's gone!" At least he was honest.
We are excited that Peyton has started speech therapy through the school district. It is a long drawn out process to get it started and it took several months - but we've completed all the necessary steps to get him going. It is nice because they work with him throughout the week and between the therapy sessions and being in the preschool environment, we feel like he will make great progress quickly.

I went for my stress/echo test on Tuesday morning and that treadmill kicked my butt! Wow, what a workout in such a short amount of time. I should be hearing some results in the next few days, but I am sure everything was fine. I've just been having these weird pains for quite a while and my doctor thought we should at least get everything checked out. It's tough getting older!

We have some big news! Aubrey is officially potty trained and wearing her big girl panties all the time. I am so proud of her. She has pretty much been potty trained for a while now, but still wanted to wear a diaper. She is quite proud of her big girl panties and is even staying dry throughout the night. One left in diapers - I am so happy and will be even happier when I can stop this expense altogether.

I took David's truck in today to get the brakes checked out and $400 later we left with a new set of brakes and roters. I told the Midas guys that they were being quite greedy this year, as they took my vacation fund for back brakes and now felt the need to take my Christmas fund for front brakes. It seems like expenses like this always comes at the most inopportune time - but I guess there probably isn't a "good" time for these types of expenses. The good thing is - we know the truck with now stop as long as David applies the brakes in a timely matter. :)

Until next time...

Dawn