Thanksgiving was a little different this year. It included Bowen! It was so fun to watch him eat his first turkey, mash potatoes, and green beans. Man, he ate it up! This boy knows how to eat. It was a small group this year with the Smith Family. Justin's, Stacey, Karen, Brian, and Chris and I and only three of the grandchildren. We went up to The Provo Smith family for Thanksgiving dinner. It really was incredible! Stacey did a great job on the turkey and did it all herself. Bravo! I have done it once before for friends in Omaha and the task is not easy. Taking out the gizzard and defrosting it and marinating and pasting and stuffing. The left overs are what make it special though!
Bowen got to play with all his cousins toys. He especially loves the stairs. He climbs up and looks back at me and giggles then keeps going. He now comes up to me crawling and pulls on my pants and then stands and says mama mama mama. He loves the dog's waterbowl and plays in the water when i'm not looking. He feeds the dogs his leftovers and even has gotten daring with Duke letting him eat it out of his hands. He likes to take Chris's socks out of the drawer and fling it until there are no more socks in the drawer. He goes over to the piano books in the basket and flings them as well. He likes to go into his book basket and get all his books out. He eats leaves and gets them stuck on the roof of his mouth and I have no idea what he is eating until finally its night and I can see the leaf.
Thinks the dogs are called BAAAA well really any animal. He likes to bite the table with his teeth, and scrape the varnish off with his teeth. He says dada dada. But what's really impressive is his FAVORITE word KITTY KITTY. He loves that cat. Every time we walk or he his playing on the ground and the cat comes he has to grit his teeth and kiiiittty.
He is not a coddler and when he gets frustrated he makes his fists and grunts. He knows how yell and use his lungs. He has the cutest six teeth with a big gap in the front. He loves music and singing and loves kids! He likes to watch football with his dad. He loves his dad but really loves his mom more ;). He likes to play hide and seek. He likes a new game called kick it with a balloon and he stands and kicks the balloon. He does not like to sit and stay still he is always on the move!
He loves his bath time and likes to splash in the bath and get his parents soaked. It takes a team to raise this kid but we would not want him any other way!
Chris was on call this weekend. We had a little dilemma, we were switching over services from AT&T to Verizon. We had to get new phones and figure out how the residents were going to call Chris. We made it work but it took a good day and a half and a couple trips to the Verizon store to get everything sorted out.
It was a gorgeous weekend. Chris and I took the dogs for a hike and hung out at home with a sick Bowen... who now I think got me sick :(. Here is to a hard week ahead getting ready for finals, clinicals, on call, and job interviews for Chris!
A few photos from Thanksgiving and this weekend!
