wow!! more than a week has gone by already!!! it's been a busy one getting ready for thanksgiving!! the kids have colds again and are both getting teeth. rex is good most of the time, but when his mouth hurts him, forget it! he's a whiny, clingy bear!
we had a playdate on monday and malloy was so excited to have her friend, cameron, from school join us! he was excited, too! they were so cute together!! she had him playing ring around the rosie in no time.
we drove to grandma tappy and grandpa gary's house on wednesday morning. the kids were pretty good on the drive. rex slept a lot and malloy kept herself busy with lots of books,toys, and games. she was SO excited to be at grandma and grandpa's - she went in and just started running around the house. rex followed soon after. he loved walking around and around the kitchen island (malloy loved this at his age and still loves it!). rex is walking about 80% of the time now. he still looks like a little frankenstein with his rigid walk - it's so cute!!
thursday was thanksgiving. we went to great grandpa bosket's house for our first thanksgiving feast. malloy was so excited to play with nathan!!! he's such a good kid - very patient with malloy and rex and willing to play with them and humor them. (side note - this was too cute and i don't want to forget to mention it!! we were talking about thanksgiving and malloy said "first we're going to grandpa biscuit's house for thanksgiving?" i busted out laughing, she's just way to cute sometimes!!) then we went to roro and papa hank's house for some more desserts. malloy went around and gave everyone thanksgiving hugs - except uncle morgan. he got a high five. our last stop was back at grandma tappy and grandpa gary's. both malloy and rex loved playing with aunt norma. they were showing her all of their toys. i think she was enjoying it just as much as they were!! the kids did great all day and definitely had full bellies at bedtime.
today we went to a party at great-great-aunt barb's house on cayuga lake. rex loved being out on the dock on the lake. he was trying to get in!!! good thing great-aunt sue was there to stop him! malloy didn't like being by the lake at first. she was showing off her singing, dancing, and spinning skills inside. later, she went back down to throw rocks in the lake and had a blast! her favorite part was the swing, of course!!! why were we outside so much at the end of november, you ask? why, because it was 60 degrees and sunny!!!! we're lucky to have such beautiful weather!!