We arrived home from Thanksgiving to find that we had a plastic tube of ants waiting for us!  This ant farm was a birthday gift for Blaine, and we’d ordered the ants a few weeks before.

One day Blaine was invited to a playdate at a house on the other side of town, and on the walk over there a firefighter invited Blaine and his friend to climb behind the wheel of the ladder truck!  We were excited to finally learn that the siren is controlled by a foot pedal (shown bottom left of the photo below).

Lastly, here’s one of Sarah proudly holding up her sleepy panda next to a random patch of bamboo growing in a neglected area in the center of Blaine’s elementary school.  She insisted on breaking off a branch to bring home with us for panda to eat.