Thanksgiving 2014

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year by taking you to Napai (your dad's dad) and Beverly's house.  Nana, Dominique, Grandmere and Bill and your Aunt Lindsay were there.  Your dad smoked a turkey and I made green bean casserole.  I made a mac and cheese for your Aunt Angela and Uncle Dwaye and Alex as they were having their own family time at their house with Uncle Dwayne's mom coming over.  Your dad smoked a turkey for them the day before Thanksgiving which was nice of him.  He was happy to do that for them.  You were very interested in sticking close to me and your dad at the Sadosky house.  Lindsay had her dog Rocky there.  When he would bark, you would jump.  I think you were very interested in him, but wanted to be close to us that day.  Just seemed a little more clingy than most days.  We actually like that you want to be close to us, but you are normally happy to be around Grandmere and Nana.  After we had dinner, we talked for a bit and then headed over to see my Aunt Bernice and Uncle Rudy and my cousin Jeff and their mother, Emma.  They live about 15 minutes away and we haven't seen them in a while.  Uncle Rudy and Jeff finally got to meet you in person.  You did great over there.  You sat in Aunt Bernice's lap and played with a few toys at the table.  It was around 8 pm, so we decided you were probably in need of getting to sleep.  We stayed the night at Nana's house.  She had her pack and play set up, so you went to bed pretty soon after we got there.  You were great that day with only 1 nap that morning.

The day after Thanksgiving, Nana took us to breakfast at J. Christopers.  You were pretty good, but got a little restless towards the end.   We had a great meal and you did great at eating.  It's really cute watching you eat.  They were in the process of putting up a Christmas tree, so you were interested in looking at that.  It was very cute seeing you notice the 1 ornament on the tree and the star on top.

We came home right after that as you fell asleep in the car.  Daddy and Uncle Dwayne went to the gun range nearby and shot skeet.  I started decorating the yard with lights and Winter Wonderland and you had fun picking up sticks.  Jerry next door was cutting his grass, so you were interested in seeing that that looked like and walked over that way. Susan and Jerry Burgess next door are the sweetest people and adore you.  We are very lucky to have them as neighbors.  I think they have 7 grandkids, so they have lots of practice.