Happy belated Thanksgiving

Posted by: dlc136 | November 29, 2011

Happy belated Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a nice holiday- we did! Unfortunately, I forgot my camera that day so all the photos were on Karen’s or my dad’s cameras… we had dinner at Karen’s place. It was Chris, me, the girls, my parents, Karen, Scott and Danny and Abbey. Unfortunately, the other kids were sick so Connie stayed home with them while Scott and Danny and Abbey were able to make it to dinner. We missed Mike during the day- I’m guessing we’ll miss him at every holiday from here on out…

Chris headed over to Karen’s that morning to help put the turkey in the oven- he took SKylar with him so she could see the turkey “fly” and join in the fun of preparations Sounds like she had fun. I stayed home to feed Dakota. Then Chris brought Skylar home for naptime and my parents arrived at about 11am. We hung out during naptime and then went over to Karen’s at about 4pm-ish after Skylar woke up from her nap. It was a really nice evening- Chris and Karen did a WONDERFUL job on the awesome meal- thank you!!! Because of Dakota and her feeding schedule I really didn’t do much (OK, I did nothing) to help with dinner this year- I felt like a bum A picture of Skylar all dressed up for Thanksgiving:

We also had a great extended weekend. Fri and half of Sat we went over to Karen’s and picked up her leaves- using the blower for the leaves is alot easier than raking! Skylar had a great time playign with Grandmom both days! And Dakota was nice and slept in her carseat for most of the time. Fri night we had the required Rocco’s pizza for dinner and then Sat night we decided to go crazy and go out to a restaurant! We went to a place called Brickside- LIsa had given us a gift certificate for the place for my birthday last year so it was high time we finally got around to using it. It was a really nice place- Chris and I had only been there 1x before- 8 yrs ago for a brunch after Scott/Connie’s wedding. Skylar, unfortunately, was a pain-in-the-butt 2yr old and was itchy and scratchy during dinner. We made the mistake of letting her sit in a booster seat at first- and she kept standing up, leaning on Grandmom, etc. So we finally just asked for a highchair and strapped her in. I totally expected a meltdown when we put her in it but she actually didn’t put up a fuss at all… go figure. She’s so random sometimes about what makes her pitch a fit these days. Case in point- she absolutely loves standing on a stool in front of the kitchen sink and “washing dishes”- I put the water coming out of the faucet at a very slow drip and that can entertain her for HOURS! But when I tell her water playtime is over she absolutely throws a temper tantrum. But then other things that I think she’s going to pitch a fit about (the higchair) don’t bother her in the least. Oh, the fun times have begun! She’s definitely testing her limits with us these days. Fun stuff. Patience, patience, patience!!

Dakota’s doing well- still nursing like a champ. On Thurs I stood on our scale at home with Dakota and then by myself to see how much she weighed- according to our scale, probably a little under 11lbs. Our little chunker Recently it seems like at the 9 or 10pm feeding she’s very agitated- her arms and legs are very stiff, flailing all about and she can’t stay latched on very well- I”m not sure what the heck is up with that… but I’ll have to ask the ped next week at her 2mo appt. Speaking of the little chunker, it’s almost time for her to eat again so I have to keep this short.

Sunday AM we went to JCP to have our Xmas picture taken. I wanted the 1st appt of the day so we wouldn’t be all backed up- but that meant a 9am appt!! Holy early! But we did it- got there a little before 9am- the doors weren’t even unlocked yet! Skylar cooperated pretty well and we got some really nice pictures! I pick up the CD on Fri so I’ll have to share some photos then.

This Saturday we’re hoping to go to a Christmas parade in Coatesville- we’ll see if Skylar enjoys that. She has enjoyed all the Christmas lights so far. She loves seeing the Christmas trees- it’s cute to hear how she says ”Christmas trees”- I’ll have to try to catch that on video for posterity. Speaking of how she talks- she’s quite the talker these days- almost using short sentences! And her speech is improving too- she now pronounces Ring Around the Rosie properly- I miss the old way she used to say it- so cute!

I”m going to head down to Philly to see the light show at Macy’s with Heather and Michelle on Sun, 12/18. Not sure if anyone else is going to join us (Lisa/the girls, my parents, Karen, Chris, etc). Maybe we can even hit up Chinatown after the light show too!

Here are a couple recent photos- Chris putting the swing together for a 2nd time and Skylar helping him:

The 1st time Dakota was in a real outfit (vs just a sleeper)- her eyes look funny here:

Checking out her big sister:

We gave Dakota a bottle this past weekend- she did really well with it. She had had a bottle 1x while we were in the hospital so this was her 2nd time. She took it like a champ: