Our Puke-Free Thanksgiving

Yes - we did it. We had a puke free Thanksgiving. For the past few years, we've had a tradition that someone in our house would be puking by midnight on Thanksgiving Day. Well, yesterday came and went, and not an ounce of puke to be seen... (Unless you count Will's milk-curd spit-up, but that's an everyday occurrence...)
Aunt Katie and Uncle Chad came over bright and early to watch the kids while Mike and I ran the 5 mile Turkey trot. Kate cuddled Will while Chad folded origami for the big kids. Chad can make just about anything with a single piece of paper... He really is quite entertaining to watch.

This was Mike's first year to run the turkey trot - and my third year... And all 3 years I've come away with a pumpkin pie!! It was so fun to run with Mike... This was our first race where we stayed together the entire time. I think Mike felt bad for me that all my running friends have moved and he didn't want me to have to run alone, so he slowed way down so I'd be able to keep up with him. I wanted to puke around 4.5 miles, but he kept encouraging me and even carried me piggy back over the finish line. My hero!

Then we went to Grandma & Grandpa's for dinner and gingerbread house decorating. I think the kids made the cutest little house that will be on display all through December (or until they've finished eating all the candy off... whichever comes first).

Bummer

Well, we lost more friends today. Our friends The Laurence's have officially moved to Virginia. We are so bummed. Joy and I had the best thing going... We went to the gym together, we swapped kids all the time, and not only did we have fun hanging out together, but the kids loved being together too. I don't think more than 2 days would go by without us being together. It's definitely going to take some adjusting to life without them.

We decided to have an adult and baby night out... sushi.... Not my favorite meal, but fun regardless.

The kids got to have a good-bye sleepover with Monsters vs. Aliens, pizza, popcorn, & milkshakes. Sweet.

And they all got new slippers... Hello kitty for the girls and Spiderman for the boys.

Arh - we miss you already...

The joys of boys

When we had Miles, let's just say he turned our world upside down. He is the sweetest, most entertaining boy around, but let's call a spade a spade shall we... The boy is CRAZY - he has to be moving his body at all times, he always has to be elevated off the ground, and he takes very little consideration into account of how his actions will impact his body.

After having a girl who was perfectly content sitting and playing with toys, I wasn't sure if all of this was just his personality or if it was just a "boy" thing.

Well, now that I have Will, I'm starting to think it's a boy thing...

Over the past couple weeks we've seen some more of Will's personality start to emerge... Last night Mike and I just sat and laughed while we watched Will. When he was in his swing, he refused to relax his body. He was trying to sit-up and sat there with his body in a crunch position for a very respectable amount of time... I see great, strong abs in this boys future. When lying on his belly he tries to move himself around like he has places to be. He's been getting frustrated a lot lately and acts like he has so much he wants to do, but his lack of ability to move his body the way he wants is holding him back. I have a hunch that once he figures his body out, we are in for it.

But having said that, I can't wait to watch him get bigger and all over the place. I really am looking forward to seeing how my boys are alike and how they are different. If he's anything like his big brother, we will always have something entertaining to watch... I love having boys!

And thank goodness they both have such a great big sister to calm them down a little... I don't know what we'd do without her!

Five Months

Will just turned 5 months old... And he likes to suck on everything....

Especially his toes.

Miles's trip to the farm

Miles's preschool took a field trip to the farm... I thought he'd be thrilled to see the animals, but for some reason there wasn't anything that was particularly exciting to him about about the chickens, pigs, goats, or sheep. I forced him to stand by the chickens to get this picture...

And then he saw the shed cat and perked right up.... Thank you shed cat for making our visit not a total bust.