Worthington Family Photoblog

This about sums up today:





Learning to make a reindeer sandwich


Feeding reindeer parts to sister (raisins)


Haha, what?


Time to humiliate mom! :P We'll turn her into a reindeer with pantyhose, balloons and red paint!


Korben manned the camera while I was reindeered-up and took pictures of his friends.


Apparently six-year-old sass has no regard for gender


Haven't we all taken this shot?


Playing games with the PTA mom


Korben took up my abandoned reindeer hat


Reindeer racing


Korben and his friend writing their own music in his Kindermusik class.

Holiday Caroling with Ms. Tabby
(You’re invited! The more the merrier!)
Host: Ms. Tabby
Where: Ms. Tabby’s House
(RSVP for the address!)
When: Sunday, December 21
5:00 pm
Phone: 713-306-4023
RSVP to: tabbyfoo@gmail.com

We had a conflict come up (don't we always!?) and so I've changed it from the 20th to the 21st. Hope you can come! Join us for some holiday cheer! We'll wander the neighborhood and sing to the neighbors, then come home to visit with friends and share in some hot cider (wassail) and cocoa. Caroling books will be provided, but please bring your own flashlight!

Korben shared his feast with Sophie.


She also dug into her "harvest blessings mix" from her class feast.



Demonstrating how to eat a carrot.


Sophie was excited to get to go to recess with her brother, too.

Sophie sits in Korben's chair while we wait for them to come from Art class.


Korben's arrival.


Korben took a seat at their feast "table" on the floor, and all the other kids started to flock to him. They were very excited to meet his sister.


Korben introduces Sophie to his friends.

First, we have Korben's terrible school photo.


Sophie singing and dancing with her classmates.


My little turkey.


Sophie's feast.

Ryan was hired to shoot another wedding today. I wish I could get him to work on his photography website, because he could be making a lot of side money if he would. In other news...

The kids and I went to the Methodist church's pumpkin patch to help them set up. With the hurricane and crop difficulties this year, they did not get the first shipment as planned, so they got their first pumpkins today, two weeks later than they normally do. This morning, one of the members of their church bought out the entire stock of pumpkins at a local Farmer's Market and donated them to the church so they would have some on hand for their fall festival this morning, since the truck was scheduled to come this afternoon.


Funniest. Pumpkin. Ever. and it's ALL MINE@!!!





There were almost no pumpkins out when we got there. The kids and I helped lay out pallets, and they made some friends. They came back and forth between playing with the kids on the MDO playground and helping unload pumpkins from the truck.



Part of the pumpkin passing people chain - I loved his shirt.



There's Mel! Hi, Mel!



One of Korben's friends, a boy named Tyler, helping to unload pumpkins. People of all ages and sizes come out to help unload the pumpkins every year.



Korben and Sophie played with this young lady, Julia, and her keyboard for quite a while. They sang the songs for all the buttons she would push to make music. It was really neat.



And of course, there were dozens of people there to take pictures of their kids with the pumpkins.


Mel's husband, Mark, helping to unload the truck. I took this for her so she could admire his muscles.


Artsy Fartsy - white pumpkin.




We unloaded somewhere between 3,000-4,000 pumpkins today.







For comparison: 2007's shot


And 2005's shot


I think we missed 2006 because my mom was in town? I don't remember. I have so many pictures to sort through... it took me 20 minutes to find that 2005 shot.


More Ripley cuteness...