Last day of November

Where has the year gone!?!? I feel like while time has flown by this year, we crammed A LOT of fun into our months.

Here are the last two Thanksgiving pictures- Harrison and Chatham sported matching turkey shirts at the daycare turkey lunch.

Chatham was SO excited that both Mama AND Daddy were able to attend this year (although Daddy didn't make it in any pictures!)

In no particular order

Turkey's are outta here- SANTA is coming!!!

Practicing our wave before going downtown to see Santa come to Newton and light up the square.

The Dad's!

Chatham was in heaven there were ten trackers in town taking kids on hayrides around the square to see the lights.

Chatham saw Santa and waved his "big wave"

In other news:

We went to Raleigh to see Thomas (and his lawn mower) all Chatham does at Thomas' house is do laps around the house with the lawn mower....and then when Thomas wants a turn-

he whines until it's his turn again.

Chatham also loves to put his Elmo rain boots on before PJ Time and run around the house.

It's SO cute!

Survey Says....

So maybe I didn't survey 100 people- BUT I did try 100 ways to get my son to eat. Snacking isn't a problem....It's sitting down at the table to eat when he pitches fits and usually ends up only eatting two or three bits (usually of fruit) before declaring ALL DONE!

So what is the final verdict..... It wasn't that he wanted food off our plates, or more milk, or ketchup on EVERYTHING...... all this big boy wanted

Was a big spoon- a REAL spoon, just like mama and daddy's.

Well Chatham- consider it done- and Happy Dining!!!!!

Leftovers....

So here is out turkey leftover post....

Family picture at Nana's house



Chatham helped Nana make some casseroles



Chatham had quite an appetite that day. He ate tons of sweet potatoes, rolls, and cranberry-apple casserole



Then after some coloring he went outside to see the new puppies. (NO we're NOT taking one home!!!!)

Happy Turkey Day

We've been trying to teach Chatham as much about Thanksgiving as you can with a 21 month old. We tried to teach him to say Happy Thanksgiving- but settled with "gobble-gobble"! Which surprisingly has gone over well- all the parents at daycare loved it today when he we waved and said gobble gobble when leaving the gym at lunchtime.

Speaking of daycare....

Can someone explain to me how they do those CUTE arts and crafts with ALL the students????

Here is the craft Chatham and I did (with Nana's help) on the kitchen floor one night.....

This took a lot more work and patience than I expected.

and then just a few days later THIS comes home from daycare.....

Really- you successfully did this with 12 kids (probably in the same amount of time it took me to do my 1) How do they do it?!!?!?

Well, anyway- Happy Thanksgiving from the Donley's! Devin and I are running the Lake Norman Turkey Trot 5k in the morning (so we can eat more turkey that afternoon)