Thanksgiving 2012

David was feeling pretty crummy all day, but was able to rally and join us at my folks for a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner.  My brother and his wife had 2 dinners with her family to go to, and my grandparents went down to Austin to visit my cousin who goes to UT - so, it was just my family and my mom and dad.  It was wonderfully low-key!  We ate, ate, ate, watched football, ate some more, then came home, put the kids down, and ate just a little more.  Perfect day : )

My purpose in life...

Oh so much to be thankful for.

My mom's pretty table for dinner:

And the kids' table!

The boys are the best of friends, I am so grateful they have each other.

I love this beautiful boy!

And the cutest little trouble maker : )

Poor Paige.  She ate WAY too much.  Girlfriend loves mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie, and, like most Americans on this day, over did it.  She threw up in her bed around 1:30 in the morning.  I got her cleaned up, new jammies, and let her sleep in our bed.   Then she threw up in our bed about 10 minutes later.  I gave her a bath, changed our sheets, and she was feeling so much better.  Just a little weak.  Poor little love, all that food didn't sit well in her stomach at all.  We let her stay with us, just in case, and we all fell back asleep by 3.  Our king size bed feels very small when there is a certain little 3 year old with us.  But we all got good sleep, and she was 100% her normal self when she woke up.   A part of me wondered if she had some kind of bug because David wasn't feeling well either - but the fact that she got sick then felt better right away leads me to believe it was just the strong food.

We had a lovely day today as well, which ended with pizza and brownies with our neighbors.

And tomorrow David and I are headed to Normal for OU/OSU.  BOOMER!!!

Thankful for healthy, 2 year old boys

We had Jack and Braleys 2 year well-child visit on Tuesday.  I am beyond thankful to get to report that they both got clean bills of health.  The continued excellent health of my children tops my list of things I thank God for every single day.  My family has been truly blessed.

2 year stats:
Jack -
weight:  29lb2oz (50%)
height: 34.5 in (50%)
head: 49 cm (75%)

Braley -
weight:  27lb even (25%)
height:  33 in (10%)
head:  49 cm (75%)

So Braley is still a tiny peanut with a huge head, and Jack, who I think of as being massive, is really just average.  They are following a perfect growth chart, are proportionate, and checked out great physically.

I was able to check off every thing on the "list" of things a 2 year old "should" be doing.  Braley's verbal development has really taken off.  In fact, when we pulled out of the garage on the way to the appointment, he looked at David's (empty) side of the garage and said, "daddy car bye bye!"  The one thing I had noted and brought up with our doctor is that he doesn't often try and repeat words we say.  However, as he usually does, he starts doing this RIGHT after I voice my concern.  We were out looking at CHK Christmas lights last night, and after we said it, he said, "Chis mas yights!"  And anyway, she said that wasn't even a big deal at 2.  Stringing 2 words together was all she was looking for at this time.

One question asked was if there was any interest in toilet training.  Um, no.  Sheesh.  That isn't even on my radar screen.  I can't see myself even thinking about this with the boys until this summer.  Looking back on when Paige was 2, I thought she was such a big girl, ready for undies, and ready for a big girl bed.  The boys still seem like such babies to me, I can't even begin to think about these things with them.  Both I will put off as long as I can ; )

I told David that I walked out of that doctors office on cloud 9, despite the fact that both boys screamed, hated the doctor looking at them, and HATED their shot.  And I was alone.  My first instinct was to be stressed and upset about it, but I just couldn't be.  I have 3 healthy kids, including twin boys, who have been healthy and thriving from day 1.  Nothing more I could ever hope for.

Happy Thanksgiving from our family.  May we all have the pleasure of good food and company!

Thankful for these kids.

Kicking off the Thanksgiving holiday with some fun, fun, fun outside.  

Our sweet friend, Fiona : )

Braley love honeycrisp apples.  Who doesn't?!?

Another sweet friend came to play with us too!  Miller is Jack and Braley's age.

Okay, so Braley loves to clean.  I think he gets that from my mother-in-law.  He asked me for a wipe, then took it upon himself to clean a good portion of the playground.

Hilarious!  Everyone watching him was cracking up.  He is so domestic - what, with this cooking, cleaning, pushing strollers.  Bless him : )

I am thankful for good weather, thankful for the ability to be home with my kids and able to enjoy days like this whenever we want, and of course, thankful for the 3 miracles who beat the odds, survived a petri dish and decided to stick around.