11 months

Miles...mommy is so sorry, you turn a year old tomorrow and I am just now blogging about you being 11 months old...ANYWAYS....

You are 11 months old.  I know I say this all the time, but I can not believe how fast your are growing up.  It seems this month, you became a lil man and you are no longer momma's baby

- you play more by yourself.

-you are into EVERYTHING.  If there is a cabinet or door that can open, you are there opening and shutting it

- you still wear size 3 diapers, 3 shoes, 9-12 month shirts and 6-9 month pants.  You are still my skinny boy.

- you will eat almost anything, as long as it is not baby food. (except peaches...you really dont like them)

- you are walking along the furniture pretty good now and you are getting braver.

- you are still a biter...you have 8 teeth and are still trying to cute to more right now.

-  you had your first haircut, made it through your first cotton harvest, met santa for the first time, rode on your first train, and had your first thanksgiving.

- you still say "momma" "dada" and "yaya"---mostly it is just yaya....you LOVE yaya!!

- you ARE NOT sleeping through the night...not sure what happened, but that didnt last very long.

- you throw some mean fits! you are very dramatic (like momma) and get your feelings hurt very easily (like momma)

- have have started getting some spankings, mommy does not like doing this, but you WILL NOT LISTEN (like daddy)

- you still give the best sloppy kisses ever and i love them (except when you bite me while kissing)

- for the most part you are a sweet, silly, happy, loving baby!

  you are such a blessing to us and cant believe you are about to be a year old!

Thanksgiving

I know I am WAY behind, but here it is...Miles FIRST Thanksgiving.  We have so much to be thankful for and on top of that list is Miles.  He has shown me a type of love that I did not know was possible.  I am thankful for Aaron.  He is a wonderful father and husband.  He is so good with Miles and Miles adores him. I am thankful for my family.  I have such a wonderful supportive family and I could not ask for more.  I am thankful for my friends.  It seems I dont get to see some of them as often as I would like, guess that seems to happen when you all have kids, jobs and all that grown up stuff to do.  I am thankful that I have a good job, that stresses me out but that I enjoy going to every day.  I am thankful!!!

ready for his first thanksgiving meal

the meal...yummy!

Friday after Thanksgiving Aunt T had some of her family over for Thanksgiving.  After they ate, we went over to join them on the hayride/scavenger hunt.  We had so much fun!!

after the hayride was over, everyone went back to Kris and Tara's house and grabbed a balloon.  This was the first Thanksgiving without Nana Jan, so everyone wrote her a Thanksgiving message to send to her.

then everyone got together to send her their messages

it was of the sweetest most beautiful moments i have ever witnessed.  and yes, there were many tears.  but Nana received all of her Thanksgiving messages in heaven. 

Did I mention that I am thankful for my extended family?  We are so lucky that we are a part of Tara's extended family as well.  We truly miss Nana, but we know she was smiling when she received all her balloons.  In honor of Nana, I just want to say....take time to watch the sunrises and sunsets.  I am thankful for those too!!  Happy Thanksgiving!!!

all a board

the POLAR EXPRESS!!! all 11 of us loaded up and took the kids.  everyone was dressed in their pjs...well, almost everyone, there are some things that me and memaw are not willing to do and that is wear our pjs out in public.  but everyone else looked so cute and comfy...maybe we should have.  the night was filled with hot chocolate, a train ride, sugar cookies, kisses, singing, dancing, story time, north pole, elves, and of course SANTA 

lil man waiting in line with memaw

aaron was not a fan of the slippers, but they are CUTE!!

here comes the cho-cho train

sweet ross waiting to board

zayne getting his miles kisses

avery telling us something important

my sweet angel emry

still waiting to board

yay...finally on the polar express

so excited

emry getting her miles kisses

singing and dancing and clapping

time to get your ticket punched

g.c. with her boys

miles giving memaw kisses

we made it to the north pole

we picked up an elf along the way

my boys

waiting on Santa

where is he????

there he is

telling Santa what everyone wants for Christmas (fyi...avery wants a pogo stick)

miles and his first time to ever meet Santa

the whole crew

 

we are truly blessed to have such a wonderful extended family to enjoy these precious memories with.  i cant wait to make more memories with the ones i love the most.