Turkey for you, and a turkey for me...

We spent our Thanksgiving holiday in Tucson with Nicky's Grandma and Poppa, Uncle Steve and Auntie Sandy, and cousins Maya, Sarah and Tess.  We also got to see Bentley after 2 weeks - he's been hanging out in T-town since we went to Austin on November 13th!

Thanksgiving Eve I went to see Beauty and the Beast with the girls, Sandy, Grandma, and Steve's mom Loni, on our inaugural GNO (girls night out!).  It was awesome - loved hearing those songs again and seeing the smiles on the girls faces :)

We were very excited for Nicky's first Thanksgiving, as he had more than pureed sweet potatoes this time around.  We gave him little pieces of turkey (fried turkey of course!) and stuffing - although most of it ended up on the floor (and the doggies appreciated it!), it was so cute seeing him pick it up and just feel it through his fingers - gotta get him working on the hand eye coordination!  We are slowly working in table food into his diet, and now he absolutely loves cheerios!

Dan and his sister Sandy had a "brine" competition - Dan used an Alton Brown recipe, while Sandy used a Rachel Ray recipe - final results were that Dan's turkey was more flavorful, while Sandy's turkey was more moist.  We're all winners!

Nicky and Grandma

Guess who got me this shirt.

So much going on during Thanksgiving day (including 3 football games on TV), that Nicky was like "Naps? What are these things you call naps?".  He didn't sleep much that day because he was just so interested in the big party!  While he was hanging out with the family, he did work on his standing skills, even to the point where he was standing still without holding on to anything, for a good 5 seconds before falling to the ground - HUGE accomplishment!!

Friday night Dan's family threw our niece Maya a surprise birthday party, which was a lot of fun - I think there may have been 10+ kids there...and surprisingly enough Nicky didn't miss his bedtime, and slept through it all.  I think the weekend was finally catching up with him.

Poppa, Tess (holding Uncle Dan's beer), and Dan

Maya, the fabulous birthday girl

Saturday night Dan and I had a date night (thank you Grandma and Poppa!) and saw Due Date.  For those who haven't seen it, it's a good movie if you love Robert Downey Jr. and Zack Galifianakis, but it's a movie you can just wait to rent on netflix.  It was really nice to get out - as we were driving to the theatre, Dan said "can we just go somewhere and sleep?"


Tess, Maya, Nicky, and Sarah - the fab four!

We got the Christmas decorations up, and gotta get a tree this week.  Nicky will start his advent calendar tomorrow (thank you Saul and Tanya!), and then he has an activity this weekend working on his hand print ornament for the tree!  St. Nick has already delivered presents for our little Nickerdoodle to open on December 6th...this month is going to be filled with activities!