Thanksgiving season has been a lot of fun this year with Luke now old enough to really catch onto it. A few weeks ago we started talking to him about what Thanksgiving is and what we are thankful for. Since then, out of the blue (we could be in the middle of a conversation about anything), Luke will ask, "Mommy, what are woo (you) thankful for?" Or "Daddy, what are woo thankful for?" Or even, "Halle, what are woo thankful for?" (He gets a little frustrated when Halle answers with "no" which is her favorite word right now). After answering him we will ask him in return and it's been fun to hear the answers he comes back with. Luke even started saying "awwwww" when Cory or I would give him an answer (he must have learned that is what we tend to do when he tells us what he is thankful for so he returned the gesture :).
Throughout the weeks we've answered back with many different things. At the first it started with the usual top of the list answers like each other, family, our house, food, etc. But I think Cory and I both found we didn't want to always be giving him the same handful of answers so we started thinking outside the box a little. And it was fun to think of and realize all the things we have to be thankful for.
Today in the car Luke again, out of nowhere, asked us each what we are thankful for. Even though Thanksgiving is over I hope he keeps it up.
A little side note: when he asked Halle today she replied with "Costco". Costco was her second word after ball - she loves the place. Luke nodded his head and replied with, "Ohhh, that's a good one."
Another big part of our Thanksgiving season this year has been the kid's Nickelodeon show Blue's Clues, or thanks to Blue's Clues I should say. Luke and Halle love this little show and there was a Thanksgiving episode on our Comcast On Demand that we've watched many times in the last few weeks. In the episode they talk about being thankful and Steve (the main character) made a THANKFUL BOOK. Luke loves projects so I decided it would be fun for him to make his own Thankful Book (with a little help from Mommy of course).
Luke had a lot of fun with it, and to be honest so did I. I asked Luke the things he was thankful for and wrote down exactly what he said. I rummaged up a few pictures of our family and grandmas and grandpas for the first few pages and we cut them out and glued them into his book. Then the last couple pages we did the lists below. I think this is a little tradition we will keep up. I just love Luke's list. I think his book does a pretty good job of summing my list up too :).
Notice the faces he drew in the book. This is the first time I've seen him draw faces. I didn't even tell him to do it, he just started drawing them on the pages with his grandma and grandpa's pictures and would say, "this is grandma, this is grandpa..". I was impressed!
Side note on the list below: Luke was specific that the Juicety Drink he was thankful for is McDonald's Juicety Drink (aka McDonalds Fruit Smoothies). Looks like Costco's fruit smoothie is #2 behind Mickey D's on Luke's list these days. I guess the golden arches rule all over, even with 2 year olds.
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