Turkey Stories Part II

Ali came to Gram and Poppy's for our Chili and Cornbread Thanksgiving!

I love hanging out with her!!!

Turkey Stories Part 1

Watching the trains wtih Daddy

Rolling around with Sarah

Watching the trains with Uncle B and Cousin T

We are just SO handsome- I think the paparazzi were at our Thanksgiving

There was a camera in our faces at all times.

Words

Chatham said MAMA!!!!! He's been saying DaDa for about a month now, and Saturday night he said MaMa (twice) and we had company over so I have witnesses!!!
He also says "Ut" which of course you know means "Up"!

His two teeth are halfway up and he is just as funny as ever. I think he's going to be a very creative boy and play a lot of make believe. He already will sit on the floor with no toys around him and move his hands as if something is there and he'll just LAUGH!!!!!

Well other than that we didn't have a lot to report this weekend- we were supposed to get our Christmas pictures taken but the photographer stood us up. So we're having them done the 5th now with Ashley (she did my maternity pictures). I can't wait!!!

What do you mean it's not FRIDAY YET......

I was blog browsing today and stumbled upon My Little Life and she uses McLinky for some Friday Fun.....

I know, I know it's not Friday- so yes you'll see this little intro again tomorrow when she posts this weeks questions, but this is my kind of stuff- the first question is about Thanksgiving and while I've already bombarded you with Christmas Chatter; I wanted to take a break and think about Mr. Turkey for a week or so....

Questions for 11/13/09: (Thanks to Sandy for her question and to Liz for inspiration--I tweaked her question a bit!!)

1. What is your favorite "eat" on Thanksgiving?

My favorite dish is my Aunt Ma'am Corn Pudding. Everyone knows to eat what they can on Turkey day because the leftovers come home with ME (although she has been known to make me my VERY OWN dish to take home for the rest of the week) and I don't share!!!

Also, the years that I go to my in laws and don't get to have any of Aunt Ma'am's corn pudding- my mom and Aunt swap Marg's Fruit Salad for Carrie's Corn Pudding- and of course mom savings some for me!!!

2. What is the name your best girl friend and the best trait about her or how you met (or heck, both!!) My best girlfriend is Katie.... also known as Smoochie (no I didn't give her that name- it's her childhood nickname) Her best trait is her BIG heart- she'd give you the shirt of her back- or in MANY cases she gives me the straightener out of her bathroom- haha!!!

We met while I was crying on the front steps of Jamison Dorm at UNC-Greensboro my freshman year after finding out that a friend was in the hospital- Katie came over and asked what she could do for me!! We haven't gone a week without talking since!!!

3. What would you say is one of your "weirdest" quirks?

I have too many to count!!! Maybe that I don't like my food to touch on my plate. When I was little I would have four bowls instead of one plate. (sometimes I still do if it's a "runny" dish)

4. What is your favorite genre of music? (Hip hop? Classical? Rock? etc.)

I like rock, oldies, country, and pop

5. Are you a Night Owl...or an Early Bird?

Night Owl- although now with Chatham I go to bed by 9 and am up by 6- so I guess I've become an early bird- but I am a very angry, non talkative early bird.

Feel free to check out The Little Life Blog yourself or just copy the questions from me.

Give it to Chatham - - He'll eat ANYTHING!!!

Nana took us to dinner last night- we went to Geppetto's and Chatham had a BALL at the salad bar!
Well actually I took his little orange take n toss bowl up to the salad bar with me and putt in two olive slices, a pepperoni, a small pickle chips, two TINY pieces of chopped tomato, a quarter of a pear, a few shreds of cheese, LOTS of mushy diced carrots- and a partridge in a pear tree! I was AMAZED at how well (and how much) he ate!
I guess with these two little toofers he has decided to expand the menu a bit- looks like I'm doing some grocery shopping this weekend!

Also, Chatham has a new FAV- spaghetti noodles, VERY small, with NOTHING on it! Peas, Broccoli, and Apples are quickly topping the list of likes.

What do you're little ones like to eat? I need to think outside the box to get Chatham a wide variety of new treats....

Pop Pop and Jo Jo sent me....

TISSUE PAPER......

It's GREAT!!!

It's even GREEN! My favorite color!!!!

Mama said to tell them thank you for the outfit.....does that mean I can wear tissue paper to school?!?

Snaggletooth is a cry-o-saurous!!!

Well we went from one tooth to two over the weekend (and they are giving Chatham a FIT!)
He isn't sleeping well, gets up at 5 AM and then won't nap- the boy DID NOT sleep on Saturday- he got up at 5:15 AM, took a 20 minute nap at 9:30 and then didn't sleep again until 8 PM!!! What the HECK!?!?!
I am SO excited for this milestone, but my heart just breaks to see my baby so miserable. I do enjoy the snuggles and couch time I've gotten, but I like to snuggle with a happy boy- not a sweaty fevered boy.

Any advice??

Just call him Snaggletooth!

That's right we have our FIRST TOOTH- Chatham won't let me take a picture of it- every time I open his mouth he sticks out his tongue so I can't see a thing- but it's there; and it's sharp.

So I thought I'd google babies first tooth and see what cute stuff I could post on here- SERIOUSLY- this is all I got!!!

or a bunch of tooth diagrams that look like something that would line the hallway's of Dr. Spencer's (that's my dentist) office.

Better Late then Never

So Halloween was A LOT of fun this year- here are some of the pumpkin painting/carving pictures...

Here are the daddy's with their babies at the Barry's Christmas party!

The Cook's

and last but not least....US.... We sadly didn't match this year- it was a bit of a last minute search for a costume. I ended up as Olive Oyl (and wanted Devin to be Pop Eye) he opted to match Chatham and go as a lion tamer.

We'll try harder next year!

Prayers Needed

I don't have much to write about today-
Chatham flipped himself over from sitting up down to laying on his tummy; and then proceeded to log roll ALL OVER the living room.
But I just can't bring myself to brag too much about his accomplishments when I need to use every available moment to pray today.

A blog that I dearly love to read written by MckMama, needs all the love, prayer, and support they can get. Stellan, their youngest son is in Boston in the CICU and things are a little rocky right now. There is a Praying for Stellan button on the right side of my blog if you'd like to know more about Stellan's condition and/or what is the current status.

While we're praying for babies hearts, I have another request a high school friend, Lyndsi, has a little boy Luke- if you're from my town you've probably seen ALL the HUNDREDS of TEAM LUKE shirts around- but Little Luke had a heart transplant on Halloween Night and is doing VERY well. His chest has been closed and they are weening him off the sedation meds. His mama and daddy got to see his sparkling little eyes the other day for the first time in weeks!!!!

Both families are in Boston in the same hospital- so lets all take a moment and channel our prayers toward Boston and particularly toward little Stellan and little Lukes hearts and family!!!!

I've got the Joy Joy Joy Joy

I went to an EOP conference for work and one of the ladies speaking, spoke about JOY! She is a middle or high school drama teacher and really spoike my language, 'crazy'! She was SO energetic and just bounced from one topic to the next and back again in a single breath.



She told this story about her kids in class and when she noticed their eyes starting to glaze over or someones mind beginning to wonder she would stop what she's doing and MOO! and they class would pay attention agian.

Then if people were talking to each other, or doodling on their papers and not listening to her she'd stop and BAA!

I don't know why I found this so humorous, but I must say I tried it with Chatham the other day- no not to get him to listen, he's a bit young for that. But to take a picture. I needed him to look at the camera and all of my usually songs and dances just weren't working so I began to moon, and baa, and cluck- and check this out......

IT WORKED!!!!

Christmas Songs 24/7

So we are home from Winston-Salem; after a LONG night with Devin's coworkers. It was SO much fun, but a VERY late night. The auction was fun as always and we got a TON of stuff- if fact about 60% of my Christmas shopping got done there, and that put me in the Christmas spirit, so when we got home yesterday I decided to go knock out some more of it. I now only have to find gifts for my sister and brother-in-law and I'm COMPLETELY done. On the way home I'm flipping through the radio stations and found a station playing Christmas tunes ALL DAY LONG- REALLY?!?!?! I thought. I am SO in the Christmas spirit and REALLY excited that Christmas is getting closer but it's not HERE, not even I am ready for this yet.

On the upside, Devin got a Kitchenaid food Processor at the auction this weekend- and he is ready to make ANYTHING I come up with. So this weekend he made homemade cheesecake- and I have a whole list of what we'll be bringing to Christmas dinner this year!!!!

Unfortunately I forgot the camera at home, so there are no pictures to share of the auction, but Chatham is quickly mastering the art of holding his own sippy cup and MANY pictures of that are coming shortly!!!

The Second Half Is Missing-

Well we are going out of town this weekend, for Devin's annual work retreat! I am SO looking forward to it, as I was pregnant last year and couldn't partake in ALL the festivities!

I am going to post twice to day and twice on Monday to make up for missing this Saturday and Sunday- but will get back to regularly scheduled blogging next week!!

So here is my post! I just don't get it! on Oct.2 I took Chatham to the dr. for his six month appt. and got the first half of the flu shot we were told to wait four weeks and come back to get the secong part.
So I called this week to let them know we were coming in and the nurse informs me that they are out of flu shots....
how are they out, I'm wondering- aren't they sent a specific number of shots? You know you gave us the first half, wouldn't you hang on to one knowing we're coming back (you TOLD us to come back after all!!!)
The nurse I spoke with just told me to continue to check thier website to see when or IF they get anymore in....

We are sorry. We are temporarily out of FLU VACCINE. Please check back later for an update.

That is what I see everytime I check the website, and I don't know what to do. Will Chatham be ok with only half a dose?? Can we go to a different doctor and get the second dose? How long do I wait to see if our dr. gets more shots?

What would you do in my case? Has this happened to your kids??

I'm in a GIVING mood--Can you help?!?!

Pass It On Baby is a blog I read about on The Goodson Family blog . It's two wonderful women who started a blog to reach out & help other mothers in need with new or gently used clothes for their children.

I know alot of my blog readers are mommys, aunts, or grandmothers so I thought- what a better audience to ask to help then well, YOU!

How easy is it to send a box of clothes that your child will never wear again, to a sweet little baby in need.

So check out the site and see what you have to offer!

OR

Help me Help them! I am sending two different shipments of items- a Thanksgiving shipment and a Christmas shipment- so anything you're wanting to donate you can bring to my house, my moms house, or ship it to me (I'll give you the address) and I'll send it off (round one in about two weeks)!!!

Our first Accident Report

We got our first accident report sent home with us from school-
Chatham has a scratch on his cheek and it's from a toy that he flipped over while trying to crawl to it. Nothing major- just manditory to send home a repot. But I thought I would share. My boy is going to be ALL BOY isn't he!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

BLOG, BLOG, BLOG

Let's get Blogging! I was reading Rainey Day Ramblings and learned that November is National Blog Posting Month!

Minus the first three days that I've already missed- you can look forward to hearing from Chatham or Myself EVERY SINGLE DAY for the rest of the month!!

Think you're up to the Challenge- I hope to be reading from you soon!!!