November 2008

November breezed past as if it never really happened. We are preparing for the upcoming holiday feast with my Sister Jodi and her family. We celebrated my 35th. It's more enjoyable sharing my old age with a 2 year old singing happy birthday mommy! Truly the sweetest things in life pass too quickly. We finally managed to have dinner with Randall and Claire who live only 15 minutes from us. Brinson showed their daughter Tierney all about watching Caillou on the DVD player. We had a shopping spree for new shoes. Brinson had a growth spurt and outgrew all his fall shoes. I couldn't figure out why he was having blisters until it dawned on me that we were smushing his toes into shoes too small.

We had a great rainy day to carve the pumpkins that had been sitting around since the 3rd week in October! We are trying to stay healthy but it has been hard to do. Seems like one of the three of us feels cruddy on and off lately. We plan to put our Christmas tree up this coming weekend! We have been reading lots of books on all the holiday events. Right now, Brinson loves the book by Laurie Parker, "It Really Said Christmas." We received one of her books for a baby gift and fell in love with her writing and the illustrations are wonderful. Our other 2 books are signed by this author: "The Mississippi Alphabet" and "Tales of the Good Life" We would love to get a few more of her books at some point.

Lately, Brinson has seemed to enjoy his time with us after play school. Tonight he prompted Daddy to take my hand and dance with us. We were dancing in the kitchen when he saw us and so this has become something he enjoys doing with us! Soooo Fun.

He tells me Santa is going to bring him a space ship for Christmas???? not sure where he got this idea but it may be from his Caillou's Holiday Movie, where he also has been singing "Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel, I made it out of Clay..." There is not a day that we don't just sit and crack up at what he says or does. I'm sure you with little ones can relate.