Wish list...already?

It's hard to believe we just have a little over 5 weeks till Christmas. We have been getting magazines and catalogues in the mail lately from toy stores. The kids have already started their wish lists, going through and circling the items they would love to have. So far our daughter is still interested in princesses and Dora but also wants a cash register and an Easy-bake oven. We have been working on counting money in Math and she loves to play "bank". She said she wants the cash register to help her learn more about money (Nana already has dibbs on this gift). She also has shown a big interest in baking and has stated she wants to be a baker when she grows up. For her daddy's birthday this year, I gave her a cake mix box and let her go to it. She read the directions, got her ingredients and made some very delicious cupcakes! (also putting her fraction skills to good use measuring out the ingredients!)
Our son is very much into anything to do with dinosaurs and GI Joe. He's now gotten to the point where he will act things out and have conversations between his action figures. Very cute to watch.
The mommy in me wants to lean more towards something more educational :-) We have been getting some of the Nest Entertainment DVD's from the library which are animated stories from the Bible. This week's favorite is Esther, John the Baptist and Samuel. The library actually carries a big selection of these videos. Nest Entertainment also does a history series about important historical figures like presidents, Galileo, Christopher Columbus etc....
Mommy's wish list is books, books and more books!! I have so many homeschooling books I'd love to get for our upcoming year. I did really well this past year getting most of our curriculum through Ebay. I don't think I paid more than half of what these books were brand new. It was just time consuming but well worth it!!
But let's slow down and enjoy Thanksgiving first! It's always enjoyable to sit down to a turkey dinner with family and spend the afternoon together. We have so much to be thankful for. God has been so good to us as He has in the past, continually meeting our every need. I look forward to sharing what I am thankful for but for now I will leave you with some pictures of the kids making daddy's birthday cupcakes.