Turkey Time

It's been a while! November has been a very busy month, so finding time to get blog updates together has been difficult, but now that Daddy has a few days off work, everyone has a moment to breathe.

Tickle Bug spent the early part of the month pretty sick. Her friend Liam had some kind of ick, and when she visited him at the Children's Museum, she took his bug home with her. It was a boogery, snotty kind of ick, and Miss Fuss became intimately familiar with the functions of Vick's Vap-O-Rub. Daddy wanted to throw all that fancy, new-fangled, pseudo-medicine out the door and use good, old-fashioned Rawleigh's Medicated Ointment, but Mama looked at him like he was some kind of witch doctor. Daddy pleaded his case -- not a day went by during his childhood that he didn't have a quart of Rawleigh's in his nostrils, and he turned out just fine -- but you know how Mama gets.

Unfortunately, Baby Girl's appetite waned a little bit during her dread cold. It's very strange to see Little Monster lose interest halfway through a sandwich or to turn down meatballs -- Daddy's homemade meatballs! -- but she had to let this funk run its course. Luckily, she didn't lose any weight and still has her bulbous little baby belly, but her eating habits did change. Only with a steady regimen of plastic dinosaurs, watching Kiki on the couch, and a sugar-and-honey throat soother was Sweet Girl able to get over her crusty boogers.

This week, Mama's parents and Uncle Nick visited from Corpus Christi. They came in time to share some chili with Sweet Goblin, to take her to everyone's favorite barbecue restaurant, and to chow through as much Thanksgiving turkey as anyone could handle. Little Monster helped rake leaves in the yard, which she greatly enjoyed with Mama while Daddy peevishly pretended to be busy in the house, getting Thanksgiving Dinner ready. She gave everyone so many kisses last night during the Cowboys game! Just this morning, Grandma BJ, Grandpa Roger, and Uncle Nick headed back to Texas, but they got the chance to spend several days with Tickle Bug, even visiting Mama's work (and maybe sneaking a few Christmas gifts into the attic when Baby Girl wasn't looking...). During their visit, Wee Goblin stayed up very late, so we'll see if a sort of late-night entitlement persists in their absence.

Daddy still has a few vacation days left after Thanksgiving, so he'll have some fun times with Baby Girl, even though Mama has to work tonight and tomorrow. Today has in the cards a visit to the park to see the ducks again and who knows what else?

Turkey Tail didn't make it out this year for photographs, but Sweet Girl nevertheless wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving and festive winter holidays!