It's A Thanksgiving Feast

Wyatt had a Thanksgiving party at his preschool yesterday.  They sang some songs and enjoyed a little feast.  He was really cute, knew all the words to the songs and really enjoyed performing for us.

The three year old class dressed as Native Americans and the four year olds were dressed as the Pilgrims, here's our little Indian singing his heart out.

Performing "I'm a Nut", one of his favorites.  He's been singing around the house a lot in preparation.

Waiting patiently to be served.  They also grew corn from seeds at the beginning of the month, so here are their plants as centerpieces.

Must be yummy!

Luke is sure not going to miss out on any food being passed around, luckily, Wyatt decided to share.

Can you guess which feather is Wyatt's?  Second from left, he's thankful for BUGS!

Holiday Hazards

I can't believe I'm saying this, but we put up our Christmas Decorations already!  Our Halloween stuff was away for a day, I put up Thanksgiving decor and that was up for about a week, then I went straight into Christmas.  I figured since we will be in Texas starting the second week of December, I wanted to have time to enjoy the holiday spirit in our home.  So there it is, I've even been playing Christmas music too!

The Fall wreath, Wyatt and I made with his nature treasures, and my new skill of crocheting.  It has since been converted to a Christmas yarn wreath.

Our Thanksgiving tree, this one is still hanging with all the Christmas decor around it.  A few things Wyatt is thankful for this year:

deer, seals, Luke, cartoons, and kids.

A little football, I little putting up the tree.

Look at him go, the light pro!

Cheese, note the hair, one of the last photos we have of his very unmanageable hair.  He liked to put the bells into his snack trap.

Wyatt helping with the garland.

Our fun little tree.

...and this is why we call Luke Wreck it Ralph, he's into everything.  I put all the breakables up really high, or so I thought.  On a side note, Wyatt helped me determine what ornaments were fragile by banging them on the ground, thanks buddy.  Wyatt has never once broken an ornament, today alone Luke happened to break three.  He also decided to climb out of his crib for the first time.  I put him in there like always for nap, he usually naps really well, like 2-3 hours.  Well today he was fussing for about a half hour, then I didn't hear anything, so I walked by to check and I heard him playing, his toys are across the room!  I thought no way he's out, I didn't even hear a fall, but sure enough the next thing I hear are the pitter patter of feet.  When I opened the door, he smiled and pointed to his crib and said, "out".  Oh no, he's too young for a bed.

Some of my favorite ornaments, this one just because, he's cute.  I got him when I was single living in Carlsbad with my little table Christmas tree, he was one of a few ornaments.

The little penguins were a gift from my mom the first Christmas Kevin and I were married, I love them, not for the reasons you would think.  They make me laugh because along with the penguins in the package of gifts sent from my mom were some disturbing granny underwear.  Kevin and I were opening the presents together and he was like, "what the heck are these?"  Well apparently she thought they were the matching bottoms to a sleep tank top she got me, let me just say they were not!

Wyatt and Luke's hand prints from last year...

This one is from a ski trip with my girlfriends, Monica and Emily...

We collect ornaments from all the places we've been, the otter is from Monterey Bay, when we were on our babymoon with Wyatt, the little lizard is Jerome AZ, our family vacation to Sedona, and the bell with the swallows is from San Juan Capistrano, another family beach vacation.  I love unpacking them every year, it  brings back a flood of fun memories.  It has been one of my favorite traditions.

Luke's 19 Months

I thought I would write down a few things about our little man Luke, since today is his 19th birthday.  He is just taking off with all the chitter chatter, and he's surprisingly easy to understand.  Although he rarely says anything close to Mommy, last night he ran up to Kev wrapped his arms around his legs and said, "Dadda, hug", it was adorable.  This weekend he said "Trick, Treat", and just tonight "help" when he needed help with a toy.  Oh another good one, when he goes poop he will come over to me and say, "stinky", sometimes.   Right when he wakes up for the day or nap he asks to play with his "choo choos".  He is so easy to be around most of the time, as long as he's fed.   He loves bananas, apples, grapes, spaghetti, peas, veggie fries, french fries, beans, and yogurt, oh of course cereal too, especially Trix, which he repeatedly says over and over even if we don't have any.  He loves to snuggle and cuddle and he loves to wrestle his brother.  He also copies Wyatt in everything he does, Wyatt's climbing, Luke has to climb the same thing, I try to explain that he's too little to climb that big ladder, but he doesn't care, he tries and tries.  He wants to do everything himself, including use adult silverware, not his baby stuff.  He likes to watch a "show" in the morning, it's usually "Kaka", which translates to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, I think he likes this because Wyatt likes it.  They'll sit on a blanket in the morning, having a picnic, eating cereal and watching Mickey.  He is just such a fun little guy and I'm so glad he's ours.