Thanksgiving

On Thursday we made the trip to Mobile, AL to visit family for Thanksgiving.  Rickybear was a doll on the 3 hour car ride both there and back.  He was able to meet pretty much all of the family that we have on my mom's side, including his great-grandmother.  He enjoyed being passed from person to person to person.  He doesn't really seem to have stranger anxiety yet- he just wanted constant attention and he freely giving out huge smiles and giggles.  My favorite comment from the day was having someone tell me that my son was "all meat and potatoes".  It cracked me up!  He's a tiny fellow, but he certainly is strong and solid.

He had plenty of outside time, too, while the family played our annual badminton tournament.  After the festivities were over, he was changed into his Saints gear and headed into the game room to watch the Saints game with daddy.  That child will break his neck to see the tv when football is on and he has started to lunge for the remote control.  Good grief!  He is properly named after his father since apparently he is going to be just like him in that regards.

On Friday, we headed over to Maw Maw and Paw Paw’s house (my hubby's parents) for more celebrating.  I don’t know what Maw Maw does to my child, but he giggles hysterically when he sees her.  She bought him some new teething toys that he wouldn’t put down.  She also gave him a wrist rattle with some teething attachments on it, but he figured out in 3 seconds flat how to pull it off his arm and wave it around.  It was too cute!  Too smart for his own good! 

We were too stuffed to move after we ate so daddy and I laid down on the floor with the baby and did some tummy time.  For the first time ever, he got up on all fours all by himself!  He kept rocking back and forth and scooting backwards.  He tired himself out because by the end of the evening he was alternating grinning and crying.  We were so proud of him!

I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays!  No Black Friday shopping for us, thank goodness!