Hoo Hoo Hoo!

We are preparing for the annual family invasion. My parents and my sister, Elin, and her family will be arriving this week to celebrate Thanksgiving and "Thanks-mas". We have had the "Thanks-mas" tradition since my sister was married. We have a traditional Thanksgiving, then on Friday we transform my house into a Christmas haven-- tree and all, and do some major power shopping so we can have "Christmas" on Saturday. It's fun, but stressful at times. This year, I'm prepared. I have all of our shopping done, and I've already done the wrapping too. I might even have some Christmas decor up before everyone arrives.

We are also expanding our guest list for Thanksgiving dinner. Now that Aaron's family is in town. They will be joining us for the feast. We bought a 20+lb turkey this year. Should be a good time. Especially with Max and Eli running around. Keenan I know will enjoy just watching all the commotion.

Eli is pretty cute. He loves Winnie the Pooh books. He memorizes the books and can recite the lines. His favorite thing to do before betime is "bounce" like Tigger. He bounces on Aaron, and says. "Hoo hoo hoo!" and Aaron says. "Eli, will you ever stop bouncing?" and Eli says, "Bouncing is what Tigger does best! TTFN-- tah tah for now!" So funny.

Keenan is really moving around and now he is pulling himself up! He can pull himself up in his crib and he has figured out how to stick his butt out and let himself gently down. Aaron took him to the doctor because his eyes had been kind of goopy, but getting better. Turns out he has an ear infection, so he's on antibiotics. His eczema has been xoming and going too. So we changed his lotion to Eucerin from Aveeno. Hope that helps!

I'll post a "Tigger" video soon. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

"Mommy you're a girl and I'm a boy"

Eli cracks me up. He says the funniest things, such as this evening, when he was stalling at bedtime, after tucking him in he gets out of bed and says he has to go to the bathroom, which he usually really does need to go, but it is a stall tactic. He said, "Mommy, you pee sitting down because you're a girl, and I pee standing up because I'm a boy. Nana sits when she pees too. She's a girl."

Sometimes when we ask him a question and he does not want to do it such as,
Me: "Eli, do you want a waffle?"
Eli: "No thank you"
Me: "Well, I'm going to make one for myself"
Eli: (On the verge of freaking out)"No, I don't want a waffle EITHER"
When he protests he loves to use the word EITHER. Aaron and I have to laugh.

This morning, Eli and Keenan were playing. Keenan is now crawling, therefore, he likes to be right next to his big brother. Eli was playing with his trains and Keenan crawled up to him and started putting the tracks in his mouth. Eli said to Keenan, "Baby Keenan, that's not s cookie!"

Last, but not least. When we were watching the news after the elections, they flashed a picture of the White House. Eli said, "That's MY house". So I told him, "It sure CAN be your house when you grow up!"

Halloween

I took so many pictures of Keenan, because he would not stop posing, recognize the costume?

Eli is Mater, the tow truck from the movie "Cars", and Keenan's costume is pretty self-explanatory

We had a neighborhood "Halloween Parade"-- all the kids posing