Thanksgiving 2009

Thanksgiving was a big hit this year with Cleo. We went to Doug and Amy's house in Hanover and had a late lunch/early dinner with her family. Lots of older second cousins (I think?) in the 3- to 6-year-old range for Cleo to watch and play with. She didn't stop moving (she is quite the proficient walker now and is trying to run) and was especially excited to play with the big-kid toys they brought over. She was tuckered out by the time we got home (so were Jeff and I, who took 2 hour naps on the couch once we put C to bed). As usual Doug, Amy and her family put together a delicious spread and we stuffed ourselves to the gils.

We started the day off with a yummy home cooked breakfast made by Jeff. We had cinnamon buns, banana and scrambled eggs. Cleo's first official Thanksgiving meal (last year she was still getting all her food from Mommy) was a delicious combo of Uncle Doug's yummy brined turkey, corn, squash, mashed potatoes (which she didn't like) and pickles (she loves pickles). Her favorite was definitely squash! Although Jeff and I were still waaay too stuffed to eat dinner, Cleo had some peas, an egg and rice...kind of a fried rice thing going on there.

So much for a relaxing 4 day weekend...tomorrow we head to Nana's for Thanksgiving #2, Saturday we head out to western Mass with some friends to cut down our own Christmas tree (which I've never done before, but Jeff says is really fun), and Sunday we're having a couple friends over for a small holiday get together.

Plenty of fun for little Miss Baby Cleo!

Cleo's one year old pics

While we were in New Orleans this past weekend our photographer sent us the latest Cleo pics we had done a couple of weeks ago.

Here is a link to her blog with a few of the pictures...if we can get 15 comments on her blog we get a free 8x10. As of today we need 5 more comments...so get over there and make a comment if you haven't already!

Thanks!!!

Cut and paste this into your browser:

http://bostonbabyphotos.blogspot.com/2009/11/dahling-you-look-mahvelous.html

Cleo is 1!

I can't believe she has been here for a year already! Cleo's first birthday was last Friday and we held her party on Saturday afternoon, which was Halloween. We had a costume party with a few close friends and family that came into town. I think a good time was had by all and Cleo didn't disappoint with her baby antics.

Getting Cleo into her Snow White costume...she wasn't thrilled


Cousin Annabelle was a butterfly. They sized each other up and wondered why everyone looked so funny.




This is probably the best picture ever (incidentally I was Medusa, Jeff was a greaser)

We got BBQ takeout from around the corner for lunch!


After everyone chatted for a while and feasted on BBQ, it was time to get down to business. The business of opening birthday presents. She wasn't really into it, but I'm sure next year will be a different story. And luckily Mother Nature came through in a big way, so we were able to spend the day outside! (Yes, we are in short sleeves, on Oct 31st, in New England!)








to be continued...