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!