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Happy Thanksgiving!

We were very disappointed that we had to cancel our trip to New Jersey for Thanksgiving due to Ben's cold/croup. I ended up going to the grocery store this morning and getting everything I needed to make Thanksgiving dinner for us. It turned out pretty well and as we predicted, Ben loves Thanksgiving food!

Santa ( a little early)

So Ben and I were at the mall this week and we saw that Santa was already out taking pictures. Since there was no line and we don't go to the mall very often, I figured we might as well take the opportunity to get Ben's picture taken with Santa. As we were walking up to him Ben was happily babbling away(I think he liked all the decorations) and he was fine when Santa started to talk to him. But as soon as I put him on Santa's lap he started squirming around and was generally very unhappy. I think he looks very concerned in the picture. My caption was "Does Daddy know we're doing this?" but I also liked Josh's suggestion, "Does Santa know I'm Jewish?".

Legos

We put Ben's legos away about a month ago because he was playing with his foam blocks more. I brought them back out earlier in the week because he was getting bored with his toys and since then he has discovered how to put them together. I wonder if we have a future CJ on our hands?

Touchdown

Over the weekend Ben had fun walking around doing "touchdown" and then clapping for himself. In this video he had just woken up from his nap, so he was a little wobbly, but you can see how proud he is that he can walk.

Happy Halloween!

Ben had so much fun trick-or-treating tonight! At first he wasn't so crazy about his costume, but once he saw the neighbor kids he perked up and had fun. He liked visiting the houses (especially those with doggies - he would shout "Da! Da!"). And he liked carrying his lightstick. Ben has been walking so much the past 2 days it's unbelievable. He's even getting good at walking in the bumpy grass outside.

Here are some pictures from tonight and from the Halloween party we went to yesterday. Yesterday he dressed up as Hannah. :) Halloween is so much fun with a little one!

Big Boy

We had a nice visit with Grammy this week and I need to post a couple pictures from her visit. But first, here are a couple pictures I took today. Ben was playing on the floor with his toys so I put a show on for him and went upstairs for a couple minutes to start dinner. When I came back down I found him sitting on the loveseat holding the remote and watching tv. Ben can climb onto the couch pretty easily these days, but he's never sat back and relaxed like that before. He looked like such a big boy and it made me laugh to see the top of his head sticking up above the couch like that.