Aunty Annie gave the boys a Gingerbread Turkey kit when we saw her on our San Diego road trip about a week and a half ago. The boys wanted to make up the turkey on Tuesday evening and I let them do it while I cooked dinner. It's so much less messy to let them work on a project than just even a year ago! Yay! Sure, they are messy but last year I would have had 50% of the candy and icing on the floor rather than on the table. Anthony tried eating the icing and he said, "Yuck, it tastes bad!" The icing is one egg white (not included) and a whole box of powdered sugar!
After dinner on Tuesday night, I volunteered to take Ramsey to his NJB All-Net practice 7-8:30 at Menlo School. My plan was to get him to the gym, go grocery shopping and then come back for him. We didn't know but his practice was cancelled (we found out when there was a volleyball game at the gym and we called Hen who got an email earlier in the day that the practice was cancelled…) and instead Ramsey went grocery shopping with me at Trader Joe's and Draeger's. I had so much fun with him! I made him pose in the cut out gingerbread man and elf board in front of Trader Joe's (ha ha, so cute!) and he did it happily. He found the monkey Joe Joe in the store -- the employees "hide" the monkey for kids to find and if you find him and let an employee know, you get a lollypop. Ram actually said, "I'm gonna tell somebody and get my candy. Wait, I really don't like candy so I'm not gonna get it." Ha ha, all grown up huh? However within 30 minutes we were at Draeger's and he *LOVED* the candy area there! He didn't ask for anything though. I think he just likes to look.
Wednesday Ramsey went to SVBC basketball camp from 9-12:30 and he was one of 4 "big" kids there. We came to pick him up and Ram and Ant went to get haircuts. Ram was supposed to get a bento for lunch from camp but it wasn't delivered by the time we had to leave for haircuts so he was *STARVING* while getting his hair cut. I went to the Hong Kong Bakery down the street intending to get them sweet buns but they were all sold out so I got them pork buns and chicken tail buns (which had more custard like filling rather than crumbly filling). Ram devoured his pork bun in less than a minute but didn't really like the chicken tail bun because the inside is mushy. Ant ate both. Here is a before pic of Ant, though I didn't get a before pic of Ram.
After the haircuts, we went back to the SVBC camp to pick up Spencer and Ramsey's lunch (which he devoured in the car) and took them to 7th grade basketball practice. There were only 3 kids there so instead of being 2-4pm it was 2-3:15pm. On the way home, we stopped by the library. After picking out books, we had to visit the duck pond. Ant took 85 pictures of ducks with my phone! I'm only posting 1 duck picture but imagine 84 more of these duck pictures. I asked the boys to take a picture together and I managed to get one before Ramsey stood on his tiptoes to look taller than he really is.
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