Vacation Day 4: Thanksgiving Feast

Well, today didn't go exactly as planned. We woke up at 6am to the sound of Aiden vomiting in his bed. Yay. So needless to say, we didn't get a good night's sleep. But he seemed okay for the most part for the rest of the day, so we are hoping it was an isolated incident. Madison (the boys' cousin - Drew's sister's daughter) was running a low fever yesterday, and Aiden ran a low fever today, but they both seemed fine.

Today was Madison's Thanksgiving Feast at her school. She's in Kindergarten this year at Cooper Elementary (http://users.bentonville.k12.ar.us/cessite/). Since the feast was only a half hour, we decided to give it a try and go visit. Maria and Aiden didn't eat - they just observed. But Madison really seemed to enjoy sharing her school, and we were glad we were able to make it. Her school is really nice and brand new.

After the feast, we headed home to get in some extra rest, especially for Maria and Aiden who were awake very early. Andrew and Vavu transfered some old home movies from 8mm to digital files during the afternoon - it was so neat to see the family back in the 50's and 60's! Turns out that Andrew's brother Peter looks a lot like his dad did at a similar age. It was weird to see someone who looked like Peter, standing in Elk Grove Park with '57 Chevys behind him! We also had time to schedule some more Disney Dining Reservations for our upcoming visit - that was good because some of the timeslots are filling up.

In the evening, the Summits (Steph [Drew's sister], David [her husband], Madison [their daugher]) came over for dinner and we all watched Meet the Robinsons. It's a pretty new release from Disney and it was SOOO funny! And ZANY! Maria really enjoyed herself and was laughing out loud.

Aiden sat and watched the movie with Madison - it was cute seeing them interact and talk to each other like big kids. Jeremy lost interest pretty quick, but had a fun time running around playing ball and squeaky lizard toy. The photo above is Jeremy wearing his new hat from the Summits - Lightning McQueen. Aiden got a hat with matching gloves, too - and GUESS WHO was the character on them? *suspense* - - - Spiderman, of course. We are going to be using them! It's been so cold here the past couple days.

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The best part of day 4 was watching the old home movies.
The worst part of day 4 was Aiden puking.
What we learned on day 4 was turn off Windows firewall and Norton when transfering files from a domain laptop to a workgroup computer (thanks, Jake). Also, 50 year old 8mm film is very brittle. But tape fixes it. Yay!
The weather on day 4 was cold and some wind.