It's November 7th, Mandy

Those were Mark's words to me this afternoon as I pulled out 2 Christmas trees...yes, there are 2 Christmas trees up in our house. Not decorated - just up. I can explain though. We will be gone for a week or longer over Thanksgiving and the weekend right after Thanksgiving is usually when I start decorating. My reason for pulling the trees out though is to make sure they survived the big blue truck that moved us to Memphis. They did. So of course Ethan had to have his tree as well and it wasn't good enough in the playroom - we had to move it in his room and put it where he told us to put it. Ethan is so excited though - he has both his Daddy's and Mommy's gene for loving the holidays, and for that we are thrilled. We are not overlooking Thanksgiving by any means - we have been talking to Ethan about being thankful and what that means. The other day I was putting away all the Halloween decorations and he got a little upset. I explained to him that it was turkey time. So later that afternoon when he woke up from his nap, I was outside washing the truck and I heard him on the monitor calling for me. Usually he just gets out of bed and comes downstairs, but that day he started calling, "Mom, Mama, Mommy, Mom, Mom, Mom......" When I got upstairs he busted out of his door and threw his hands in the air and shouted, "It's Turkey Time!" He is going to be so much fun this year for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

We are looking forward to heading to Georgia at the end of next week. Nina's 6 month pictures are the week of Thanksgiving and we're visiting Santa Claus and riding The Pink Pig. I'm excited about everything we have planned that week! It's so hard to believe that it's November and the end of the year is right around the corner.

Nina will be 6 months old tomorrow. She is pretty much sitting up by herself. She loves watching Ethan play and thinks that he is so funny. The other night she has started rolling from her back to her belly, which is funny to watch. Ethan liked his feet, but Nina LOVES her feet...does that mean she'll love shoes like her Mommy??? They are both precious and are so much fun right now. Here are some pictures from the past week. Hope all is well with everyone - we have so much to be thankful for!

Ethan found Mark's headset and thought it was a great toy!

Nina loves being on her belly - although lately she's not on there long before she rolls over to play with her feet. She also loves sticking her tongue out!We went to see Adam Maund's last football game. For those of you that know the Maunds...can you believe this is Adam? We enjoyed watching the game - and he got to play! After the game Adam carried Ethan around like a football.Last week, this bulldozer was clearing the lot across the cove from our house....it was literally an all day babysitter - Ethan went from the front yard to the office window all day long. After the guys left, I took him outside to climb on top of the bulldozer. He loves tractors and trailers. I think that the love for trailers started when Poppa and Nona brought my birthday present to Memphis on his trailer...Ethan loves trailers now! Yesterday he was eating a hotdog and Mark didn't get two of the pieces cut completely apart, so they were still attached. Ethan said, "look Mommy and Daddy, my hotdog has a trailer." Yeah, that's what we're living with!