Thanksgiving 2009

Friday after Thanksgiving we had Thanksgiving dinner with Greg's family and enjoyed visiting with them. Greg's Aunt and Uncle from Austin were in town and his Grandfather flew in from Odessa. Most of the sides were made with special butter and no cheese so I was able to eat almost everything - I don't get that to often with not being able to eat dairy.

Uncle Buddy, Nanny, and Grandpa

Grandma, Aunt Cindy, & Rachel

Uncle John, Aunt Jody, Pops, Grandpa, Nanny, & Uncle Buddy

On Thanksgiving afternoon Landon, Greg & I drove to College Station to see the A&M vs Texas game. We happened to see Dave and Tracy as we walked up to our seats.

Dana, Landon, Greg, Doug, Tracy & Dave on our way to our seats at A&M vs Texas football game

We went to Conroe to visit family for Thanksgiving. It was a very short trip but we had a great time eating and visiting with everyone. Several family members live in the Houston area, but we also had cousins come in from Midlothian, and cousins fly in from Las Vegas. We got to see cousins that we don't get to see often and it was fun to see all of the kids playing.

On Thanksgiving trip she started playing with sorters. She was able to get circle in, but got frustrated trying to get the other shapes in. She also played a lot with stacking toy. She was very proud of herself for putting stars on her stacker

Landon, Ashlyn, Kasey, Julia, Dillon, Haley & Ayla

I'm not going to put everyone's name, but there are 27 family members including my dad taking the picture! This was the first time we had had this many of us together in a long time.

Ready for Aggie Football day!

Landon, Dillon, Julia, Kase, Haley & Ashlyn playing

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Few more updates...

Kasey started standing up on her own without holding on to anything in the week before Thanksgiving.

11/22 - Kasey learned how to pretend eat. She was holding some strawberries from Landons kitchen and offered me some. I pretended to take a bite and chew. then she started doing the same thing

Kasey likes to put objects into things so I decided to see if she would help clean up. We were cleaning up Landon's kitchen. I would give her something and tell her where to put it. She would put it in the drawer and then clap when I would tell her thank you. It was cute.

11/15 - went to Korea for business trip. Of course Kasey slept through the night every night I was gone. Everyone seemed to do ok. It's a long trip over there - about 24 hours door to door. It was cold, but we had some good meetings.

Couple updates, Kasey starting to walk

11/9 - Kasey took several steps on her own today this evening. We have a car that the kids can ride in. Of course both of them want to be in it all the time. Kasey doesn't understand that Landon should get a turn. She's pretty determined to get in it even if Landon is there. At one point I pulled her away from the car, and she walked 4-5 steps to it. Later we were getting ready for bath and she took several steps again.

We got to visit with Brittany and Ayla at moms today. We had lunch and let the girls play. It was fun to see them together. They are about 3 months apart in age. Mom got some cute pictures and posted them on facebook.

11/8 - Kasey started clapping today while dancing

11/6

I walked into the room after putting bags in the car, and Kasey said Ma Ma

Kasey started turning the push carts that she uses - before we would always have to turn it for her. She did this first at Grammy and Gramps.

Greg went out of town to see A&M vs Colorado game. Friday night Grammy and I took the kids to Santa parade at Willow Bend Mall. The parade was really an advertisement for several things, but Santa was "good". It was fun to see him walk around with the kids and give them fives. The guy talking through most of it was the conductor from Polar Express. I'll post some pictures from the weekend a little later

11/5 - Kasey really said Bye Bye

first week of Nov - Kasey will take a few steps when trying to walk to Ma Ma, but usually sits down or grabs for hands.

Landon wrote his name for the first time - 11/2/09 - He had been showing more interest in drawing letters. He's been able to draw L for a while and just started with A. We went to dinner at Durkins in Frisco (great Pizza place), and they gave him some paper and crayons. He wrote his whole name.

Landon had his first burrito at Freebirds (11/1/09). We've been there many times but usually he has a kids Quesadilla or just shares with us. He ate about 3/4 of it. He had a 1/2 bird, but it was the same size as Greg's.