November 24 - Happy Birthday Titi Lissa!!!

So, lately things have been going very well - if you consider a bout of the flu "well". Luisy got sick on Sunday night (about 10:25 pm) he threw up - poor little man - and then slept fine all night. In the morning he seemed fine - had an appetite, etc. and so we got off to go to school and bam - sick in the truck! YIPPIE!!!!!!!!!!! So we wipe him down, changed his clothes (mommy always has extras of everything under the sun), got him settled, and turned around to go home. Mommy stayed home with the boys on Monday, and Daddy stayed home on Tuesday morning. No more vomiting, and everything has been fine since Monday early morning....

Christian, the tough little guy that he is didn't pick it up and seems to be holding his own. This morning he tipped himself over backwards in his booster chair at the kitchen table. Mommy was so scared that she screamed. We think that mommy scared Christian more than the fall. He's fine, though - not even a scratch.

We are enjoying our Thanksgiving, and have been playing together (all four of us) all morning! We watched some of the Thanksgiving Day Parade, and played a lot with toys... Of course, Luisy watched a little bit of the Horsey Movie... Oh boy, we're in for it! He has also been reading one of mommy's horse encyclopedia's - and always wants to see the pictures of the people riding the horses. He tells them to get off so that he can have a turn!

Christian continues to pick up more words every day - and can communicate so many things already! He has also started walking backwards. Today he packed up a little Halloween basket of stuff (a couple of toys, a bottle of juice, etc.) and walked backwards all the way to the front door, carrying the basket, saying "bye!...bye!"

Another really fun thing that Christian has picked up is looking up into the sky when airplanes fly over and pointing at them and yelling, "Jay Jay!" - we love to watch Jay Jay the Jet Plane, and play with our Jay Jay toys... Christian also likes to look at (the) and say Moon! He is the most observant one-year-old that I've ever met.

Last Saturday, we went to the Gilbert Days Parade, and the boys had a great time with Mommy, Nana and Papa. We watched the entire parade from start to finish. Luisy loved mostly all of it - he was dancing in the street when the dance teams came by with their music and pom poms. Christian especially loved the marching bands and really got his little feet moving to the beat as they passed right in front of him!

They had everything from fire trucks, to trash trucks, to people riding their horses, to floats. It was a very fun morning. The boys both fell asleep on the way home after a BIG cup of milk.

Well - we wish everyone a very Happy and safe Thanksgiving!