Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year, we celebrated with family friends and their neighbors. There were about 20-25 people - of which, we knew 5. Most of the food was catered, but each family brought one thing extra (homemade rolls from me, pumpkin cookies from my friend, homemade stuffing, salad, and a pecan pie - my favorite!)

Hannah didn't eat much, because Hannah usually doesn't eat much. She did eat 1 1/2 of the rolls though! Mostly, she just enjoyed running around and playing with the other kids.

Brian ate mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and rolls. The next day we had leftovers and he tried some of the peas and carrots - surprisingly, he liked them. (The scratch on his nose is from his over-loving sister.)

OH, and Brian also got his 3rd tooth just in time for Thanksgiving! If you click on this picture below and zoom in, you can see one of the top ones coming in.

After dinner, it started raining, but that didn't stop Hannah from having fun! Good thing we packed extra clothes. :-)

We hope that everyone else had a good thanksgiving as well. We missed our family, but at least we had a meal to eat.

Continuation of last post

In keeping with my theme of my last post (and getting inspiration from some photos I have recently seen), I decided to make a short video. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.

(If you want to see the pictures bigger, they are all in my facebook photo album.)

(Background music: "Never Grow Up" by Taylor Swift)

They grow up too fast!

There have been a lot of changes with my little man over the last few weeks, so it is time to put them all in a post. I know all moms say this, but (humor me) "He is growing up so fast!" Sometimes I look at him and wonder what his voice will sound like when he says "more, please " or even "Mom, I love you." I wonder what he will look like with a full head of hair. I hope that his gorgeous blue eyes won't change color. I wonder what his favorite songs will be growing up. I worry about what his favorite bugs / animals will be. I dread the thought of watching him run away from me.

For now though, he is still my sweet little baby who can only move very slowly by doing an army crawl. Here are his latest achievements.

1) First tooth (October 18th)

2) Eating more solid foods like graham crackers (or as Hannah calls them "Grandma crackers!). We are noticing that he hates the texture of pureed foods, and instead likes "real foods."

3) Saying "Mamamamama". (Late October) No pictures, but maybe we can try and get a video of him talking.

4) Sitting up by himself! One day after naptime, Jason found Brian in his bed sitting up waiting for him. Over the last few days, we have seen him doing it more and more while playing on the floor. Notice in the following series of pictures where the pacifier is! They are posted in order.

(another day, but still showing off his skills)

5) Second tooth (October 31st). I can't wait to see that little smile in a few weeks when he has both those teeth in!

6) First haircut (Nov 1st). He wasn't looking too bad, but he had a few sections of hair on the top that were getting long and thick. I just trimmed a little so that his hair was more even and clean. Brian was much more interested in watching the scissors, though.