Early Thanksgiving with Bogues and Fifes

We got together in Idaho Falls with Chris and Gina (from Montana) and their kids at my parents house in early November. We celebrated Mom and Caleb's birthdays and had our thanksgiving with them. It was such a nice weekend. We all went out to breakfast on Saturday morning and had our big turkey dinner on Saturday evening. Caleb and Brian got a long pretty well. They both enjoyed playing with trucks and trains. Little Aubrey was sure cute, and we actually got a pretty good picture of her on her daddy's lap without her binky in her mouth. We had quite an adventure as Allison dropped her cell phone into one of the toilets. Chris took the toilet apart to try and find it, but it must have gone down trough the pipes and now is sitting in the septic tank below their house. She was pretty bummed. We did enjoy a couple of games with the group but mostly it was nice to just visit and catch up on how everyone is doing.

Time Out Nap

Time out turned into nap time. This was just one of those moments you had to catch on camera. It was an evening when Caleb didn't get a nap and was starting to get into trouble. Often when he starts getting out of control, we put him in "time out" on one of the steps leading to our family room. I guess he was getting out of control because he was just really tired and instead we should have just put him to bed. I don't think he was in time out for too long before he just decided to lay down and go to sleep.

Caleb's 4th Birthday

Caleb had a fun birthday in November. We went to the Children's Discovery Museum on his birthday (after the big kids got home from school) and had McDonalds for dinner. Those are two of his favorite places to be. We got home pretty late from our fun activities and had a quick bowl of ice cream with bananas. Caleb didn't seem too disapointed that we didn't have cake.

We spent the weekend before his birthday at Grandma and Grandpa Bogue's home in Idaho Falls. On the way back home to Utah, we stopped at Grandma and Grandpa Moores' home to celebrate Moore family birthdays and have dinner with them.

Caleb loves to ride bikes, but his old bike was a little different from this new one he got. This new bike has brakes (when you peddle back wards). His old bike didn't have brakes. If you peddle forward, you go forward, and if you peddle backwards, you go backwards. When he first got on his new bike, he tried to go backwards and it wouldn't go. So he was excited to get some new toy tools for his birthday. He spent hours the next day trying to fix his new bike with his new tools. Finally after a few hours of frustration, I made him take the bike outside and taught him how to ride his real bike with brakes. It may take him a while to get used to it. Maybe when he gets more comfortable he will even want to take the training wheels off. I hope not too soon.