Thanksgiving 2010

We have a lot to be thankful for this year. We have a family of three beautiful kids. This year for Thanksgiving we had my parents, Brian's parents, my brother and sister. We dearly missed Josh and Abby, Jason, and Vivian and Jay. This year we had two turkeys. We had a great "regular" turkey and a deep fried turkey. The deep fried turkey was a huge hit and I think a new tradition!
Matthew napped before dinner and managed to get up just in time for dinner. He sure wasn't go miss out on food!
Dessert this year was two pumpkin pies, a pumpkin cheese cake, and a pecan pie. The pumpkin was all pumpkin that I cooked and strained back in October. It was so much work but they were good. We had Peanut Pumpkin Pie and Long Island Cheese Pumpkin Pie. There was also a Long Island Cheese Pumpkin Cheesecake that was just amazing. I can't wait to make that again. Oh and I liked the Peanut Pumpkin pie the best!

Thank you Lord for all that you gave our family this year. We feel so blessed with our little family and everyone that joined us today to celebrate all that is blessings in our lives!

A Hungry, obsessed mini-me or divide by three?

Hungry, Hungry Matthew: This week Matthew started expand his eating the past two weeks. Yogurt, banana, and sweet potatoes have been tried so far! This is on top of his oatmeal eating. Matthew is a hungry dude! I have a bad feeling that he is going to eat us out of house and home. Matthew is also trying to use sippy cups. The straw ones are all he has tried so far but he sure can get some liquid out of them. As a warning, if you are holding any food or a cup, he will try to steal it from you.


Sophie is a mini-me. A mini-me of Grace. Anything that Grace can do, Sophie can do better. Wait. Sophie catches onto EVERYTHING that Grace does. I show Grace how to hit play on the DVD player. The next thing I know, Sophie is hitting play. Sophie is singing most of her ABCs. Sophie talks in complete sentences. Sophie is working on potty training (and doing amazingly good!) Most of the time, Grace's mini-me doesn't bother her so I will enjoy this while it lasts. I know it will end since I too have a sister!=P

Grace's obsession. Grace is obsessed with Dora right now. Specifically, Dora TV shows and movies. She can seriously sit there with Dora on the TV all day. If you try to tell her Dora isn't on, she goes for a movie. When you want to get something done, this obsession is nice. At any other time, this obsession is enough to drive to insane. I am thinking The Little Mermaid obsession was better since at least it was a decent length movie. If you hear Grace "No swiping Buddy. No swiping." This is thanks to Dora and her constant "No swiping Swiper. No Swiping." Cute the first time, not the one millionth.

food and bellies

Life is about food and bellies, right? Well it is here at our house! Our schedules are driven by when the girls want to eat. We have pretty set meal times as a result.

Grace's New Thing:
Meals or food used to be "yum-yum" at our house. Grace has changed them to be "mm-mm". If we get to "mm-mm", we know food better be showing up on the table soon or we end up with screaming, hungry girls.

Sophie's New Thing:
Sophie has discovered her first body part. If you ask her where her belly is, she will proudly lift up her shirt to show off her belly. When Grace sees Sophie showing off her belly, she instantly has to show hers. There are a lot of belly displaying moments around here all of a sudden.

Speaking of food and bellies, it is lunch time. I better go get some food together to fill up these little bellies.