Our Adventures: thanksgiving and other details

Thursday, December 1, 2011

thanksgiving and other details

bob and eddie came down for thanksgiving again this year. eddie found a great deal on a flight from salt lake to florida, so she went to spend thanksgiving with her family. so with david working crazy peak hours all week (including black friday), it was just bob and me hanging out! we did a little grocery shopping for thanksgiving, he did a couple of badly needed home repairs for us, and we went to the dinosaur museum at thanksgiving point. pace wore his "department of paleontology" outfit for the occasion. he was fascinated with everything in the "movement" room, and his favorite dinosaur by far was this little baby statue on the floor--he walked right over to it to pet it, give it hugs and even try to crawl on top for a ride.

bob very quickly became pace's happy little playmate.

i was showing pace all of the fruit in the fruit bowl one morning--naming each one, letting him touch it, smell it, even try to bite it if he wanted to. when we got to the banana, he knew just what he wanted to start his breakfast!--he ripped it out of my hands as soon as i'd peeled it, and chowed down!

pace has also become a professional biped. he first took steps on his birthday, and went from tentative steps, to screaming and plopping himself down on the floor refusing to walk unless i was holding his hand, to now wanting to run--walking isn't fast enough. he's quite the little dribbler, too! when david gets home from work he loves to take hold of our fingers with each of his hands and we'll run down the hallway as fast as his little legs will carry him. he keeps up pretty well!

one of the last few nice days we had before it got really, really cold. we got pictures done, so everyone was dressed up for the photo shoot. i always say i don't think a baby should have a haircut before the age of two--it instantly turns them into a little child and gone is the baby forever. but pace's hair is getting kind of long...we may have to take action before his second birthday...

just a few photos from the shoot:

1 comment:

robin marie said...: i'd heard good things about that museum! i'm glad you guys got to go.; December 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM

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