Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Bobbie & Alan (Brian's mom & her husband) came and shared Thanksgiving with us. It was nice and quaint. The luxury of only having a few of you is that it is so very laid back and relaxed. We cooked in our pajamas, ate in our pajamas and later that evening changed into clean pajamas for bed! Brian fried our turkey, he did a great job...I am very proud of him for researching it and being cautious so everything went very smoothly, no accidents to report!

This is Cale in Liddie's little Indian hat from school. It actually fit him better than her (our kiddos heads measure a bit big, thank goodness Liddie has a head full of hair now to cover it up!). The next one is of Liddie wearing her Indian hat on the back of her head...she really didn't care for Baby Cale trying it on.

Then the following pictures are of our turkey I was so proud of!

Cale - 10 Months!

Our baby is growing like a weed! He is as mobile as one gets without walking. He pulls up on everything that appears stable and is in EVERYTHING...this will make it fun going to un-childproof homes over the Christmas holiday, hopefully it will enable me to maintain weight instead of piling more on!

The little Harvard t-shirt is from when Parker was little...Brian went on a business trip to Boston when Parker was little and brought him back this t-shirt...all three have worn it...maybe I will try to find a picture of all 3 wearing it and post it!

Liddie's Version of a couple of songs...

Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
like a butter dream.

ABCDEFG
HIKKLMNOP
QRSTUVWXYZ
Now I owe my ABC's
next time won't you sing
wit me.

Multiple Posts

FYI...When I post, I post several at one time!

Arm Art (Follow up to "Leg Art")

I was sitting in the office and Liddie was behind me drawing on her easel. Liddie became very quiet! When I turned around I saw her writing on herself! Of course this is not a washable marker...it is dry erase! We asked her what she was doing and why she was doing this...her answer "I wanted to be scary". I can't help but to laugh.

If you did not see "Leg Art" go back to August 1 and you will see the original Leg Art by Liddie!

By the way, we could not get her to put a shirt on yesterday! Not going to fight that battle. Yesterday morning it was in the upper 30's and Parker insisted on wearing shorts and a short sleeve shirt to church. That is fine, not going to fight that battle, but there was one condition...if he insisted on wearing shorts and a short sleeve shirt he had to wear flip flops too and he could not have warm tea at church! He said he never got cold, but a mom knows that he really did!

Cops & Robots

Parker and Liddie have come up with the game of "Cops and Robots". I think they got it off of a show, but nevertheless they are playing together and using their imagination! Sunday after much encouraging, they went off to play. They came downstairs in this get up! Parker has an old flag football jersey on the bottom held up by tape, yes, scotch tape (that is why I hide and hoard scotch tape); and Liddie with a pair of Parker's shorts on held up by scotch tape as well. Both with hats and armed with a nerf gun.

If you click on the picture of just Liddie you might be able to see the scotch tape!

Liddie starts swim lessons...

Liddie started swim lessons a few weeks ago. She completed her two week session, meaning she had to go everyday for two weeks (so glad that is over!). This is Liddie with her instructor, Mr. Eli. She loves Mr. Eli and her spoiled her! There were days toward the end where I had to go to the pool and coax her out. She was the only one in her class so needless to say she had all the attention and easily wrapped Mr. Eli around her finger.

We started the weekly maintenance classes last week with a new instructor. Well, she cried through her entire lesson so we have rescheduled her weekly classes so she can be with Mr. Eli, and guess what...she is the only one in the class! The time is not the most convenient, but for her not to fear the water and enjoy class it is worth a little inconvenience. Once she has completed her float tests, I will consider changing her instructor, but for now the goal is to get her comfortable with the water and able to float if she were to ever fall into a pool.

Sleeping Sitting Up!

This is so sad! I am not a "cry it out" mom, but my sweet husband is looking out for me. He bought a sleep book to try to help us to get Cale to sleep through the night. I know it is better for him to learn to fall asleep on his own, I just have such a hard time letting them cry. The deal is to let him cry for 5 minutes, comfort him, repeat. Well, last night he cried his 5 minutes and settled down on his own (yea!). After a few minutes of quiet of course we check on him...and this is what we found! Poor Baby Cale sleeping sitting up in his bed! Yes, the poor baby is really asleep!

Cale plays in Chia's water!

This is Cale after he found Chia's water. Believe it or not, we were right there, but just did not have our eyes on him. He crawled over to her bowls and dumped over the water and started playing in it. It is so funny how he does his little legs in the water; this is exactly what he does in the bathtub! (I don't know how to get more of the clip uploaded to blogger, this is only the small snip-it it would upload)

Sweet Baby Cale

Just some random pictures from last week. I just think this shows his sweet temperament.

Again, he and Chia are buddies.

Halloween 2008 - Part 2

Okay, let this show you that the age difference between Parker and Liddie is pretty big...Parker being "Slash" from Guns N Roses (He knows about Slash from Guitar Hero) and Liddie being a "Flapper". The funny thing was as we were trick or treating all the adults knew who Parker was, but the kids did not! Parker commented that all the adults knew (except for one Asian man) and was surprised...I said "Honey, it is because most of them are mommy and daddy's age!". Trust me though, Parker really played it up, he always does though, he enjoys dressing up and playing a part!

Liddie absolutely loved it again this year. Parker really couldn't keep up with her. She didn't carry her boa around, it was "too itchy".

Baby Cale just soaked it all in and took the walking around like a trooper. He was a little puppy dog.

We have some neighbors, who either don't have kids or they are grown, who decorate every year for the kids. On year it was a pirate theme, another was Jack in the box & his wife (from the food chain), well this year was an alien theme. They "built" a mini UFO and dressed like aliens, it was great! I would attach pictures but they really didn't show up well.

Halloween 2008 - Part 1

Brian with Baby Cale as a little puppy dog.






Cara with Liddie with festive t-shirts.



















The pumpkins! Parker did his all on his own...He did a great job!

Liddie was making us sing "Happy Halloween" to her (to the tune of Happy Birthday). She loved it this year...I can't imagine how excited she is going to be at Christmas!