First Thanksgiving with Dawson

Well, we survived our first Thanksgiving as a completed family of four!

We found out that Dawson just LOVES pumpkin pie!  AND he LOVES turkey!  He pretty much shovels it in!  Tonight he kept wanting more and more and more!  And then he had pumpkin pie!

I baked 2 pies on Wednesday and we had some that night.  These pictures are from Thursday noon.

Here we go!

 

 

... and, it's all gone!

 

Then Daddy let him lick the whipped cream spoon!

 

Yummmmmm!

I Spy With My Little Eye...

...all of these things that were INSIDE our large speaker for our entertainment system!  I guarantee that this wasn't done by just one person!

A Byproduct of Completing a Project

We bought this at Target on sale last January before we went to China.  Meighan has one in her room and I wanted one for Dawson's room.

I finally got the bee in my bonnet today to put it together and actually start USING it!

Well, once I got it up, my two kids (BOTH OF THEM!) started taking the toys that have been on the living room floor for the past 3 1/2 years and moving them in here!  They did it ALL BY THEMSELVES!

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the living room floor!

I HAVE MY FLOOR BACK!  It's almost a shock to walk into the living room and see the entire floor again!  (See the video in the previous post to see how it looked "before".)  I thanked them and hugged them for cleaning up the living room floor.  Meighan kept saying "I'm glad I can clean up your floor, Mommy!"  She was so proud of herself!  And Dawson was quite happy, too!

I'm very happy to have my floor back but ... we'll see how long it lasts!  (I hope a long time!)

I never thought (or expected) that just putting the shelves together would result in getting ALL of the toys into Dawson's room (where they actually belong anyway!).

Dancing Dawson!

I finally got Dawson dancing on video!  He loves music and dances whenever he hears it!

Pictures

He got in here all by himself! .....  But he had help getting covered with toys!

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!

This year I decided that we would NOT carve a pumpkin/jack-o-lantern.  This year Meighan would get to PAINT her pumpkin.  So a couple weeks ago we picked up a small pumpkin.  She finally got to paint and decorate it the other day.  She is so serious when she is creating!

 

 

She just "glued" everything on with paint!

 

 

This is the back.  It says "HUSKERS". :-)

 

So this is the character that's hanging out at our house right now.

 

And while I was taking pictures of the pumpkin decorating, Dawson wanted his picture taken, too!

 

And this is just a nice picture.  He likes to hold on to fingers.  He holds on to my finger, too, when I am rocking him to sleep.

 

And today he wanted to try green peppers!  He actually ate a few bites!

 

Meighan made this at school today.  Inside is (get this) a roll of toilet paper!  Then a piece of orange fabric is wrapped around it and it looks like a paper lunch sack is folded up and stuck in to hold it all together!  How clever!

Pint-Sized Pirate & Half-Pint Pumpkin

Well, here it is, at long last!  Meighan likes pirates so I suggested she be a pirate this year for Halloween.  I made the costume.  I'm not a real experienced sewer but this looked like something I could handle.  After asking questions via email and phone to my mom, I finally finished the vest.  I got the pants done and we found a long-sleeved white shirt that she could wear.  Then I made the belt so she could put her sword somewhere and not have to carry it all the time.  We may (or may not) figure out how to have the parrot perch on her shoulder.  If not, she'll just have to carry him.

 

 

 

 

This shows the scarf/hat style.  She wanted this style.

 

 

Dawson is really too young for Halloween.  If we only had him we wouldn't go out this year.  We didn't take Meighan trick-or-treating until last year.  So anyway, I was at a children's consignment store a few weeks ago and happened to walk past the costume rack so I looked for something that is 18-month size and found this costume.  It didn't cost much so I bought it.  Just put it on him tonight and it's a little small.  He's NOT thrilled about it and he kept throwing the hat off the deck.  Oh, well.

 

 

This is what he thinks of his costume.