Whose idea was it to go to a parade when it's 18 degrees outside?

After the parade there was free pictures with Santa at the community center. So we took our hot chocolate over there. Warmed up, cleaned up, and de-jacketed. Fortunatly it was pretty empty so we could take our time. We walked up and about 10 feet away from Santa Mackenzie stopped. That was close enough for her. He had some jingle bells but she didn't care. Then he held up a candy cane. She took three steps then stopped. Not worth it. I took her hand and led her the rest of the way. Mackenzie took the candy cane and walked away. Santa told me to pick her up and sit on his lap with her in my lap. Okay. They took a picture of that and she went back to her spot. I put Logan in his lap and Logan was just fascinated by him. I think it was the beard. He just stared. After that I was able to get Mackenzie on his lap. She still wasn't sure but she wasn't screaming. We got a pretty good picture out of it.

Eight Months Old

Logan is an expert crawler and is pulling himself up on his knees now. He loves his sister and follows her around. He can wave and make the sign for milk. He is still a stubborn sleeper and wakes up several times a night. He is getting more and more vocal. He has a wonderful smile and flirts with everyone he sees but hates to be left with babysitters.

New Clothes and Thanksgiving

Logan was the youngest of four boys who were born to teacher at my school last year. A few weeks ago all of the other three teachers gave us clothes for him. Then a few days later a friend who I met through our old daycare gave us three bags of clothes for Mackenzie. I feel very blessed for this gift and it makes one less thing for us to worry about for awhile. Here is Mackenzie modeling one of her new outfits.

Isn't she sweet...

We were invited to one of my friends house for Thanksgiving. She had us, her in-laws and her mother. There were some other children there and stairs. Even after Mackenzie fell she still trying playing on the stairs so Robert spent a lot of time following her up and down them.

We had turkey, green beans, carrots, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, and JELLIED SALAD!! Mackenzie ate her cranberry sauce.

And a little more.

Then got distracted by something else.I had Logan sitting next to me and I had his baby food ready to feed him when I was finished. As I was eating I felt something on my arm. Logan had reached over and stolen a handful of my mashed potatoes.

Of course he wanted nothing to do with the baby food after that.

And he was quite a mess when all was finished.

But that's what Thanksgiving is for.