Happy Thanksgiving

This is Eddie with one of his favorite breakfast foods these days--a waffle with a letter 'E' in syrup. It's my way of making sure he doesn't get too much.
Baby J isn't as proficient with bottle holding as Eddie was at this age, but she's starting to give it a try.
This is Eddie as he talked to G'ma and G'pa Ohio--he was more 'on the move' as he talked with g'parents Wisc. Josie is just out of the picture by my knee, crawling around. Eddie is eating one of about 5 munchkin doughnuts he had for lunch today. Boy they sure hit the spot.

The above photos were taken today, on T-day, but the below cover this week. I'm just amused by the facial expressions of Josie.

Here Eddie is eating some of his 'blue' Halloween candy. I don't think it shows up, but his mouth and surrounding area were dyed blue, as the candy itself was quite blue. He is slowly eating his way through his candy, one blue piece at a time (this contradicts my earlier statement about letting kids gorge themselves, but I do allow him to have more than one piece at a time, if he asks, but he just doesn't ask).

So the whole point to this photo, as that while he doesn't like getting his photo taken, on ocassion, he is interested in seeing his picture on the back of the camera. Now he is getting interested in the shutter, and he can kind of see it through the camera and is in this picture trying to peer in as I take several photos (if I don't use the flash, he doesn't mind getting his picture snapped as much).

We stayed home this year as Den is flying out Monday morning for a week and the thought of taking two trips so close together was more than he wanted to stomach--that and the nearly $400 price tag per ticket.

Good friends invite us every year to their house for Thanksgiving and we are always in Atlanta. This year we took them up on their offer and had a great time. There were 4 other kids besides Eddie and Josie and 2 of them were Eddie's age. We had smoked turkey and fried turkey--neither had we tried before at Thanksgiving and both were juicy and flavorful.

The biggest thing I will miss this year is the 12 hour shopping trip with my mom and sister. I almost always come home with something and it's nice to shop without kids and without torturing Den--just my mom and sister. While I have no intention of waking myself from a perfectly good snooze to be at a store at 5am, I am wondering if I will battle the crowds to do any shopping the day after--it just won't be the same.