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.