Teddy Bear Helpers

Jeremy: Come on, Pooh. We're going on an expedition... to an half an acre wood.

November 14 was National American Teddy Bear Day and you can't get much more American than Winnie-the-Pooh.... Oh.

Well, anyway...

We celebrated with teddy bears getting involved in all sorts of things throughout the day from helping with washing dishes and food preparation to book editing and movie watching.

Pooh Bear went with Jeremy to do some birding that morning while Baby Bear helped me make breakfast burritos and Mommy Bear helped Jr. take care of Jet. Awww.

 

After breakfast, the bears helped us clean the living room and various other tasks.

Jr. Jr. even made a teddy bear out of blocks to help with different tasks.

Baby Bear helped when Lucky and I needed to have a little heart to heart.

It wasn't all about work, though. The teddy bears also helped us play.

After Jeremy got back, he and Pooh Bear had an online meeting so the kids and teddy bears and I went for a drive. We played the game that Jr. Jr. and I played after General Conference last month and the kids took turns deciding which direction we would go until Jeremy told us he was done with his meeting.

After we got back we got to watch a movie (the kids earned it with how hard they and the teddy bears worked) and I finally made the pizza I didn't get to a couple days before.

Recently for a Family Home Evening lesson, Jr. talked to us about showing kindness and doing service.

He made punch cards for each of us. Good deeds are rewarded with a punched hole. When the whole card is filled up, we can take it to Jr. who will make us a treat of our choice. Since November 14 was also the anniversary of the hole puncher, we took the opportunity to punch a lot of holes in those punch cards. The kids were very helpful that day (and Mom and Dad... and several teddy bears).

How's that for celebrating?

Teddy Bears, Pickles, and Hole Punchers... Oh My

Well, we had on our calendar that November 14 was National American Teddy Bear Day.  We had checked out the Teddy Bear Encyclopedia from the library but didn't do much looking at it that day.  Oh well. 
I asked Nichole and Jr. to help with some menu planning.  I showed them what holidays were on the calendar and they got pretty creative with figuring out foods to go with the holidays.
Jr. let me know that bears eat meat so we should have hamburgers for dinner on Teddy Bear Day. 
I didn't have it written on the calendar, but I found an old facebook post that November 14 was also Pickle Day (I now have it on the calendar).  We made sure to have pickles with our hamburgers.

Earlier in the day, Google informed me that that day was also the anniversary of the hole puncher so while Lucky had a friend over to play, I let them go at some construction paper with hold punches.  After a while I emptied the holes onto the table for them to get creative with, then stopped their play when they started blowing the holes off the table.  Sigh.  They did a good job cleaning up afterward, though.

So several things to celebrate that day, only one of which was planned before the day started.