Thanksgiving '07

It's been a busy time over the past week or so. Last Tuesday I went to the airport to pick up Mum and Barry. They arrived safely after a long flight and lay-over in LAX.

Wednesday was Amy's 9 month Dr appointment and she now weighs 17lb and is 28" tall. She was not at all impressed with the 3 vaccinations she had! Dr Gibbons was a little concerned that she is not yet saying "Da da da" or "Ba ba ba" but said we should wait until the New Year and hopefully she'll be making her first sounds by then. Amy also needs to have a blood test just to check her iron levels - again nothing serious just needs to be checked at her age.

Then of course on Thursday it was Thanksgiving, so we were cooking all day and had our fill of turkey, sweet potato, green beans, corn bread etc. Amy was asleep during the meal but was able to enjoy some Thanksgiving leftovers later that evening. The next day Amy, Mum, Barry and I were all up bright and early for a full day of shopping on Black Friday. We got a great deal on a videa camera at Best Buy and then picked up most of Amy's Christmas presents at Toy'R'Us. We also shopped at Yankee Candle, JC Penney, Babies'R'Us, Gap and more. Mum and Barry bought Amy a new car seat and she seems to really like it .

Saturday and Sunday saw more shopping and showing Mum and Barry around San Antonio. Barry especially liked Costco!! Jerad put up all the Christmas decorations for us and the house now looks so pretty inside with the tree and lights and all. We are getting excited about Christmas and have started the countdown.

Preparing for the Holidays

It was another busy week for us working and also preparing for Grandma Liz and Barry's arrival. Jerad helped me finish decorating the guest bathroom and I am so pleased with how it turned out. The next room on the list to paint and pretty up is the master bedroom - still deciding on a color scheme though, so probably a few weeks away yet.

Our little girl finally got back to "normal" and we didn't have to take her to the doctors. Although she is due for her 9 month well visit on Wednesday. It will be interesting to see how much she weighs now and how much she has grown. I can't believe she is 9 months old already!

Not much planned for this weekend other than grocery shopping and buying all the food we need for Thanksgiving. Looking forward to next week as it will be a short week at work with Wed-Fri off. And yes...............we are planning on being part of the crazy crowd on Friday to start our Christmas shopping and get all the bargains. I'll be looking to buy a video camera first and foremost. I can't wait to start videotaping our little girl for her first Christmas.

What we did and did not do this week........

Jerad was busy at work this week with quite a few loads to deliver out of town. He seemed to really like the drive out to Bandera and recommended we go out there for a day some time. He said how pretty the drive was and it is a real neat little town too. Well I finally went and bought new paint to re-paint the downstairs bathroom. Earlier in the year I had painted it a light shade of blue to match the shower curtain we had - but after looking at it for a while decided I didn't like it. So in preparation for Mum (Grandma Liz) and Barry arriving in 2 weeks Amy and I went to Sherwin Williams on Sunday so we can re-paint and we bought a new shower curtain and other bathroom accessories. Jerad was a big help doing the prep work and taping (which was great because that's the only bit I hate doing).

As for what we didn't do this week - which is a first for Amy.......poop. Our poor little girl is a little constipated so we are trying prunes etc to see if that does the trick. If there is no progress by tomorrow morning she'll be off to Dr Gibbons. She doesn't seem to be in any pain but it is not normal for her to go this long.

Halloween 2007

As usual I was all excited that it was Halloween time and trick or treaters would be knocking on our door. Even more exciting was that I could dress Amy in her cute little fairy costume! Well I of course had way more candy than I needed and our poor little girl was getting tired and ready for bed by the time the first trick or treaters arrived. Although she did get to greet 1 or 2 of them. Before we know it we'll be celebrating her first Thanksgiving and Christmas.