Thanksgiving Weekend

Our Thanksgiving weekend was full of family and traveling. It was a great weekend and nice to have a few days away!

We met lots of Ben's side of the family in Auburndale for turkey day, and the girls especially had lots of fun playing with their cousins that they don't get to see often enough.

Then, we headed to my parents for the rest of the weekend.

Aiden loves this little piano and much music was played on it throughout the weekend :)

The girls played so well together all weekend and got a few new toys on black friday

Jon and Ben played lots of xbox, and Dad and Ben did some deer hunting.. no deer though

We all went to Gurnee Mills on Friday and just took our time and enjoyed ourselves!

Aiden had his first ride on a carousel and loved it.. until it started moving up and down, he gripped that pole for dear life :P

Always have to stop in at Bass Pro Shop to see the fishies

and we went out to eat at Rainforest Cafe

Otherwise, it was a nice few days of relaxing and enjoying the family

Uncle Tom and Auntie Jackie came over for supper one night too, always nice to see them!

Aiden and Grandpa before bed

"Mister Monkey Business" - for sure.

playing Memory, in a mess of Barbies :)

While the guys were hunting, the kids were playing and snuggling by the fire with Grandma

We have so much to be thankful for :) Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Playing

I brought the kitchen set and table upstairs the other day and the kids have had loads of fun with it again, something different! :)

Aiden loves watching Cooper

Taylor got to bring home the class froggy a couple week's ago for a couple days and she had to draw and write in a journal about everything she did with Froggy.. it was cute.

Aiden likes playing in his crib from time to time - need to move it down!

Snuggling with Daddy

This is one of the oldest toys we have but the kids all love it

Taylor had a bday party for a friend from school at a nearby roller rink on Saturday

First time roller skating for either of the girls and they did great!

Hailey liked it better when I carried her around, but she tried herself too :)

and got some pretend arcade games in :P

Grandma P came with since we were staying at their house, while the guys hunted! (no deer tho)

They played limbo and dice

watching the action

Hailey and another little sibling were having fun pretending to shoot things

Aiden is super ticklish :) cute picture

We even got to go swimming in New London.. first time in a long time

This boy has the cutest pout ever.

Another fun weekend coming with lots of food and lots of family!

My kids make me laugh...

I cannot put into words how much this picture of Taylor makes me smile!

LOL, you are hilarious my dear.

 Aiden is just set in fast forward all of a sudden and is growing up right before our eyes.

He's not satisfied crawling around now that he's mastered that, so he's been pulling up on the furniture. He's starting to walk next to things now!  Crazy little man. Maybe you'll be walking as early as Taylor did at 8 1/2 months! We'll see. He definately has tasted independence and likes it!

He also loves climbing on people. Hailey loves it too, she thinks it's great now that he's big/tough enough to play with and wrestle around with a little bit!

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Taylor is home sick from school today. She had a tummy ache and 101 fever when she got up this morning. However, after a dose of motrin and an hour and a half later she was begging me to take her to school. Her school, however, has a 24 hr fever-free return policy so she's home yet. She also has the day off tomorrow since they have voting at the school so she gets an unplanned extended weekend!  Hailey is still not all back to normal since being sick last week, but no more sick bellies or fevers for her. Aiden is still working on those top teeth and I swear one of them is going to break through at any moment!  Ben is still sick with a bad cough/cold and I'm hoping that breaks any day now. He's been horribly coughing at night and not sleeping well enough that he should be for work and also waking up Aiden.  Hoping the mucinex kicks in soon or he'll be heading to the dr, whether he likes it or not!  I'm doing ok, a few sinus things but someone has to take care of everyone else.. so knock on wood, I'm not going to get sick!

That must be all for now, someone's calling his "mama"... another thing that makes me smile :)  -nevermind the fact that every other word in his vocabulary is "dada" :P  when he actually means dada and every other thing he calls dada too besides me!

A Boy and his Cars

Taylor was reading and singing "The Wheels on the Bus" to Aiden one morning before school

/These two were reading books and listening too :)

Hailey was sick on Wednesday.. you know your 3 yr old isn't feeling well when they actually take not one but two naps in one day! (one nap would've been a red flag for her lately) She's better now!

Aiden loves his tractors and his cars

and he loves having someone to play with when his sister's aren't around

yummy, must taste it too

This is where I find Aiden everytime I leave him on the floor in the living room for a minute and come back in the room... he flies over to the car ramp

had to stick this picture in there.. Aiden loves his baby snacks, usually the little puffs. this was his first time with those cheese doodle ones and he loved them.

There's the car ramp again :)

goofball, must stand up next to and try to walk by everything!

I'm busy mom. He slides them down the slide and bangs them together.. throws all the cars off then gets mad because he wants them back! lol

Yes, I realize I post a lot more pictures of Aiden than the girls but he's the baby, what can you do.  They got tons of pictures when they were the baby.. so at least I get some of them too :)