Thanksgiving Day

This  year, we spent Thanksgiving in Columbia with Justin’s family.  We started the holiday off at his Mom’s house for an early Thanksgiving Dinner.  At James’ 6 month check-up, the pediatrician told us around Thanksgiving we could start giving James little finger foods.  (She tends to do things by holidays: Halloween was flu shot, Thanksgiving was finger foods, Christmas is big boy carseat.  Wonder what Valentines Day will bring!  Maybe diamond earrings.  Juuuust kidding.)  Anyways, I’ve been very excited about James’ first plate of food!  He’s been eating Ritz crackers and Puffs lately.  But on Thanksgiving he had sweet potatoes, carrot soufflé, butter beans, cranberry sauce, cornbread stuffing and rice!   He loved it all so much that he wouldn’t swallow, and let it just sit in his mouth as he wined for more.  Never a dull moment with this one.

 

The best part of the day though, was all the cousin time!  Unfortunately, I didn’t take many pictures.

I did snap a picture of Cousin Harper trying to teach James to crawl.  Maybe it went something like this.  Harper: ‘Why don’t you just crawl already?’

Harper: ‘Why doesn’t he just crawl already?’

James: ‘Okay, I’ll start tomorrow.’

He spent some time with Uncle Jay.

And Nanny Sasa.

And then we fought his afternoon nap for about 2 hours before we finally gave in and accepted it would be a tough evening.  (Don’t be fooled by this innocent face.)

We headed over to Justin’s Dad’s house {where I took even less pictures} to have another Thanksgiving Dinner!  We tried to snap a few pictures of the cousins, Amelia (5), Harper (almost 2), and James (8 months).  Tried being the key word.

James did pretty well considering he skipped his afternoon nap and was 2 hours past bedtime.  (Although we paid for that during the night and the next day.)  Well worth it, though.  Even though he’s too young to understand the meaning of the holidays, it was so much fun to share the day with him.  So much to be thankful for.  God Bless this little turkey.