Thanksgiving 2009

We had a great Thanksgiving this year full of family, food, and football. We enjoyed seeing everyone, though our little Joshua was a sicky. We had Thanksgiving lunch at Grandma Goforth's with all of Mommy's extended family and dinner at Dana's with all Daddy's extended family. Then we had an Iron Bowl party at Dana's on Friday and a family dinner at Aunts Celeste and Elaine's house on Saturday. In between be went to Huntsville to visit with Grandottie and Jerry Pop. All the while Joshua wasn't feeling well. By midnight on Thanksgiving Joshua was screaming and miserable. On Friday we took him to a clinic and he had ear infections in both ears and pink eye in both eyes. We were there about 2 1/2 hours and missed most of the first half of the Iron Bowl which turned out to be a good thing. Joshua slept for most of the game except for the last minute and a half. What an exciting finish - Roll Tide!
**Check back later for a slide show of our Thanksgiving trip. **

Science Jammies

Night, night! I love my NASA pajamas!

Happy Birthday Mommy!

We had a great weekend! Grandma and Grandpa came for a visit for Mommy's birthday. As an added bonus, Daddy took Mommy out on a date for dinner and a movie. We went to see New Moon, which Mommy has super excited to see and then we had dinner at Bonefish Grill. It was a wonderful night out. I have to give major props to Matt for getting the sold out movie tickets ahead of time and being a good sport about the movie. I think the funniest thing he said after the movie was "Wow. I haven't seen acting this fine since Hayden Christensen in Star Wars." It was a sad, but true statement.

Joshua had a great time hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa as did Mommy and Daddy. They brought him all kinds of goodies and cute clothes (see picture below). Thanks for everything!!

Finger Paint/ Link to Pictures

I'm glad this paint doesn't have lead in it!

Also we recently went to have our family Christmas pictures taken. Check out the link on the right hand side of the blog or click on this blog title to check them out.

Lastly, Joshua recently had his 15 month appointment. He is still a light weight so we are going to work on eating more. This is a challenge because he is a picky eater. He generally eats yogurt, bananas, cheese, and Gerber snacks fairly consistently, but all else is hit and miss. The biggest surprise has that he had ear infections in both ears, though he hasn't been puny or pulling on his ears. Hopefully the medicine will knock it out and he'll feel better.

Roll Tide

My aunts bought me this awesome Alabama outfit. It has an elephant and everything! Thanks Aunts Celeste and Elaine! And for all those keeping score I would like to say that with Alabama's win over LSU yesterday, "I ain't never been nothin' but a winner... in regular season." Roll Tide! Joshua has mastered a new trick. He is a pro at climbing over the ottoman (one of the barriers we used to separate the play area from the rest of the house. I left Joshua in the den and went into the kitchen to feed the dogs. I turned around for one second and then he was right by my side looking so proud of himself.

Dance, dance

The daycare director stopped me the other day to show me a video she had taken of Joshua. He was in class and the kids were singing a song. Joshua was so excited! He was moving his mouth to the other kids singing and he knew the hand signals so he'd twist when the other kids were twisting and cover his mouth, clap his hands, the whole routine. It was so cool to see him participating. Even better than that, a few times in the song he got so excited he stood up and squealed and then sat back down. He was so giddy he couldn't contain himself and had to do something. I was so impressed that I tried something at home. I said "Joshua let's dance." Then I started seeing the Oscar Mayer Bologna song because it's so upbeat. Anyway he started bending his knees and clapping and twisting. We absolutely must get this on video. It's too good to miss!

Happy Halloween

I have finally gotten around to posting some Halloween pictures. Joshua had a great time as a pumpkin. First we went to Publix where they had trick or treating while you shopped. Then we went home to give out candy. Joshua was so cute. He watched us give out candy to about ten groups then he started giving out candy. I think he enjoyed all the kids coming to our door. At one point a church friend I hadn't seen in years stopped by. We chatted a few minutes and asked "Is that your little boy?" I turned around to proudly introduce him when I saw that while I wasn't looking he actually ate through the Kit Kat wrapper and was eating some candy. With chocolate on his hands and face I just grinned and said "Yes, that's my Joshua."An extra Halloween treat we get to celebrate every year is Daddy's birthday! Of course this always kicks off the best 20 days of the year - the time when Matt is 2 years older than me. Happy Birthday Matt!