I love Thanksgiving and I had a very nice holiday weekend. We were in Boston at Fran's Dads on Thursday and Friday. Dinner was great and it was nice to learn more about Fran's family.
Fran's cousin's daughter with Fran and Ava.Ava likes staying at "Franny's Daddy's" house because we sleep in a great big bed - she likes to lay "in the crack" and put her feet down the middle when watching her DVD player.
She was very good on the ride "both ways" thanks to that little DVD device. I am not sure what parents did about long car rides before DVD players and Disney movies. But, the DVD could not save Fran from an entire container of spilled chocolate milk in his lap at our rest stop dinner... He was a real trooper. On Friday, I woke up to Ava singing happy birthday to mommy, we went to Quincy Market for lunch, and then to a Boston Bruins game. We were in the family section so there were lots of kids. Very early in the game we were on the jumbo TV in the middle of the stadium - that was pretty cool. Ava slept through the second period - which is amazing because it was soooo loud.
For dinner we went to a cool restaurant with Fran's Dad, sister and her husband, his niece and her fiance then we headed home - Fran drove, I slept and Ava watched her DVDs.
On Saturday we celebrated my birthday again at home. Fran made a great dinner and he and Ava gave me cards and a gift certificate to a pottery making place. I started decorating the house with Christmas stuff and continued with that project on Sunday. As of today - the lights are on in the front yard - reindeer and all, the tree and other decorations are up, and I ordered the picture Christmas card so that I can mail them next weekend.
November memories - Ava's tantrum in the grocery store over my decision not to by myself a birthday card - bloody nose and pee in the car seat to boot. Mommy and Ava reading to each other when we were both sick and just laying on the couch cuddling. Right now she is correcting a lot of people when they do things out of step - "bad boy", "you don't like me" when she is corrected, she has a strong opinion about not wanting to wear shirts with buttons and is very particular about colors, she is becoming masterful at asking for candy every time she does anything that might deserve recognition, she is almost potty trained, for a day or so she called herself Rainbow and Fran "your heiness" and insisted that all others do so as well. She loves playing with books and the barbie like dolls my sister gave to her from MacKenzie. She did a wonderful job decorating her section of the Christmas tree and enjoys playing all the musical Christmas things at once. Now that it gets dark at 5:00 - she is very confused about when to go to bed and gauges it on TV shows. She gives the greatest hugs and sweetest kisses.
