Happy Thanksgiving

What a great thanksgiving!!  We spent a day in Barnum, a day in Rockford, and most of today travelling home.  We stopped in Ames to have lunch with my grandparents, too.  Despite some difficulty in getting girls to sleep (which is to be expected, I suppose), we had an easy time travelling with the girls, and they were lovely, amazing girls the whole time.  It was possibly the most low-key holiday I've ever had, with almost no stress and lots of fantastic food wherever we went.  We also got a Christmas tree this afternoon, and Emily was really excited to put her ornaments on it. 

A highlight from today:  As we were leaving Mommo's house, Audrey was crying because she was overtired, late for her nap.  So we got her buckled in, and I was buckling Emily into her carseat.  Emily was asking why Audrey was crying (because Emily asks why to absolutely everything these days), so I told her she wanted us to sing to her.  Emily and I started singing "Golden Slumbers," and Audrey immediately stopped crying, and stared at us with her big blue eyes still full of tears.  Then Mommo joined in, right next to Audrey, and then she stared at her, just taking it all in.  It was a wonderful, wonderful moment for me, all of us singing together.

Audrey also figured out how to climb up into her little rocking chair (see picasa).  She was SO proud of herself.  I took a whole bunch of pictures of her with the camera held vertical (portrait), and then turned it sideways, and she turned her head when I did that!  I noticed immediately because my very first memory is of watching my dad take pictures of me, turning the camera and I turned my head so my face would be right in the picture.  Audrey did exactly the same thing!  I told my mom about it and she thinks I was probably the same age as Audrey, so it's weird to think that she's storing away memories from things that happen, and I may never know what's impacting her long-term...  anyway, the pictures are adorable and she totally caught on that I knew why she did that.  So we took a bunch more pictures, both directions.  What a cutie.

Thanksgiving was also made fun because I learned about friends of mine who will be having kids next spring!  Hooray!  This will be a fun spring.  My cousin and his wife are having a baby in January, my coworker is having twins in February, I get a new niece or nephew in March, and I just learned about a friend who's expecting the end of May (yay!!!).  Several other friends are expecting this coming spring and summer, too, so apparently it was a busy fall for some people!!  Class of '29 is going to be full of interesting people, if they're anything like their parents!

I've noticed lately that my blog gets more traffic than I expect or can identify based on Feedjit locations, so I will be changing this blog to be password protected after this entry.  Please let me know if you'd like the password, and when I do my next posting in a week or two I will email you the info you need.  I want to do a better job of staying personally connected with my friends, so this will make me feel a little less like I'm enabling casual stalking. :)  If you want to hear what I'm up to, I want to hear from you, too, really!  I may not be able to form coherent sentences when I attempt real conversations, and you may not have time to write me a book, but I miss my friends.  What's up with you?