Thanksgiving Prep

Last year for our Thanksgiving place cards, Brian made hand print turkeys. At 5 months, it was quite a challenge to paint his little hand and keep his fingers from balling up long enough to press his hand print onto the cards. I enlisted Lauren's help and we got the job done by placing Brian in his bebe pod in only a diaper. With the chaos that ensued, we didn't get any pictures, but here's a picture of what Brian looked like on Thanksgiving last year.


Incidentally, we declared Thanksgiving the day of "first food" for Brian, so he had just had his first cereal in this picture. Hence the furrowed brow and "what the hell are you doing, mom" look.

This year I decided to attempt the turkeys again. However, due to a budding sense of I WILL DO IT MYSELF, the turkeys quickly became Brian's original artworks. This child is Mr. Independent. He grabbed the brush from my hand and insisted on painting the cards himself. I was amazed to see that he knew HOW to paint. He knew how to get color onto the brush. He even knew how to put the brush in the cup of water to clean it off. He's never painted before this week. I don't think he's even seen anyone paint! Needless to say, we won't have hand print turkeys this year. But we certainly have had fun making place cards!


And yes, please note that my child is now sitting in a BOOSTER SEAT. He is also FEEDING HIMSELF most of the time, is down to one (TWO HOUR) nap each day, and is sleeping through the night almost every night. WOW! He is 17 months old today...16 month pictures will go up soon hopefully. Hard to believe.