Thanksgiving

Another year, another Thanksgiving. A day set aside to be thankful for what we have been blessed with. Not to mention a day to eat until you bust a gut. This year we packed up the monkeys and headed off to spend Turkey Day with my in-laws. It was nice to have a change of scenery for awhile. My brother-in-law, Ben, made a fantastic turkey and there were plenty of sides to go with it. My wonderful sister-in-law made all the efforts to make it completely Alex friendly with the one exception of the green bean casserole (a dish that would be impossible to be dairy-free). Of course, despite all of our efforts, mr. Alexander decided to not eat a single thing. This is, of course, including the pumpkin pie that took me almost 4 hours to make (boiling down soy milk takes a loooooong time.) All in all, it was nice to see everyone, but it is nice to be home. The trip had a few downfalls. And when I say downfalls, i mean fall downs. True to form, Alex was his usual monkey-self and proceeded on putting on a pair of snowboots. One of these boots has been not-so-affectionately renamed as 'the snow boot of doom'. He enjoyed wearing them around. It was cute...yeah...until he decided to wear one while going down a flight of stairs. You see, we live in a small house so stairs are very rare to come by for my kiddos. He is physically capable of going down them on his own, but apparently wearing one tennis shoe and the one snowboot of doom when you are really tired, makes for a disaster. He took one step down and tripped on said snowboot of doom and tumbled all the way down. One black eye and many bruises later, he is fine and back in the comfort of stairless land. I'm seriously reconsidering have a dual story house. Anyhow, to add insult to injury, both Alex and Abby got a nice cold that turned out to be croup and poor Alex got a secondary virus that involves explosive diarrhea. Poor kiddos. They are much better today and I think I may actually get a night of sleep tonight. On the upside, Alex LOVED being with his cousins. He loved it so much that it he refused sleep much of the time. He also has great fondness for his Uncle Ben. He talks about him all the time. Abby on the other hand did not enjoy herself so much. She was very clingy and hardly let me out of her sight. But on the last day or so, she finally warmed up to everyone. So right now, we are just hoping for an injury and illness free Christmas. My camera died while we were away so I didn't get any pictures of the trip, so here are some pics of the monkeys at home. I hope you all had a great holiday!

Alex and his best bud, Penny.

Abby sporting her headband...now all she needs are some leg warmers.