Thanksgiving Weekend

This weekend was a mix of awesome and not so awesome. Thanksgiving was great! The food was fantastic! (Janet is an AWESOME cook!!!) And, of course, the highlight was introducing Trevor to several of his aunts, uncles, and cousins. Trevor was awesome and everyone loved him and took pictures of him like the paparazzi. Trevor also had a great time playing with his cousins, Ben and Evan. Ben and Evan were awesome with him and it was really fun to watch the three of them.

Then came Friday. During the day, I baked the cake for Trevor's birthday party on Saturday. But toward the evening, as Al and I started to decorate the cake, we began to feel a bit queasy. We thought that maybe one of the ingredients of the cake was bad, so we decided to be on the safe side, we'd throw it out and get a cake from Shop Rite in the morning. Then over the course of the night, we both threw up. So we thought maybe it was something we ate at dinner on Friday night. Then Al's mom called to say she and Grandpop were sick and so were several other family members. What we think happened is that we caught a stomach bug. The end result of which is that we had to cancel the party. Thankfully Trevor did not get sick, but he was very put out that mom and dad opted to lay like lumps on the couch on Saturday and watch the Avatar marathon on TV instead of playing. What can I say, we were both sick we could barely move, let alone play. But hey, at least Avatar is quality television.

Anyway - We are disappointed about the party, but, it's OK, these things happen. We are just happy that everyone is on the path to recovery!

We thought you might like some pictures of Turkey-day so:

Trevor and Grandpop

Trevor and Uncle Ron. Trevor liked Uncle Ron and sat happily on his lap several times!
Trevor playing with Ben and Evan. (That's a coaster on his head. Apparently he likes the coasters at Grandmom and Grandpop's. I don't know, the kid walks with socks in his mouth and wears coasters on his head. What can I say?)
More play with Ben and Evan. Ben and Evan were crawling on the floor with Trevor and Trevor decided that Ben was a horse. Like I said, they got along really well and I am so glad they got the chance to play.

Trevor and Aunt Sis watching Uncle Bruce carve the turkey. I love turkey.

Trevor eating the turkey that Uncle Bruce carved. His bib is pretty cute. It says, "I'm stuffed" and has a picture of a turkey on it. We tried to take a picture of it, but Trevor wasn't cooperating during that photo session and most of them turned out like this:
and we wouldn't want to post pictures like this one. Oh, wait...

Trevor and Daddy taking a Turkey nap!

Trevor's Chew Toys

I don't know how many people have commented on what a happy baby Trevor is! Well, he is, most of the time. But he's also teething and so he often takes on the persona of "Mr. Grumpy Pants". We just usually don't take pictures and video of this alternate personality. It also means that he puts just about anything in his mouth. So I thought for this post it would be fun to share some random pictures of some of the things Trevor has chewed on in the past couple of weeks.

Beaded teething rings.

Baby nasal aspirators.

Shapes from his elephant shape sorter.

Ice Packs.

And, of course, the a fore mentioned sock.

Keep in mind that this is just a short list consisting of items we have captured in his mouth on camera. The complete list is much, much, much longer!!

Trevor's New Talent

Here's a video of one of Trevor's new talents.

Videos of Trevor Walking and Socks

Hi All! Sorry it's been a while since the last post. And since the complaint department is experiencing a back log due to the lack of posts ("Can't wait to see more pictures!" "I watched Trevor chasing Grendel AGAIN today." "Where are the new pictures?") I decided that maybe it is about time for me to post something new.

Now, Trevor hates socks. He is always pulling them off. I'll put him in his car seat with two socks on and when we get to where we are going, he'll be bare foot. We'll be in a store and I'll look at him and he only has one sock on. Jill and I had to back track our steps through ALL of Macy's the other day to find a missing sock, and we almost missed it!! I'll put them back on, only to have them pulled off again. Often times, in order to avoid frustration and missing socks, I just take them off until we get ready to leave the store. (Inevitably when I do this I get some short comment such as, "He's not wearing any socks," or, "Where are his socks?! It's cold out!" And get a "you're an inept parent" stares. But it's easier than keeping track of what Trevor does with his socks and I DO put them back on BEFORE we go outside...) For those of you who still doubt Trevor's feelings on socks, I caught him putting socks into his Diaper Champ the other day, and Allan once found one of his socks in the middle of an intersection with tire treads on it. Sigh.

There is one thing he does like about socks though, he can put them in his mouth, which is the measure of how much he likes anything these days. These two videos were taken back to back and show off Trevor's feelings about socks and his new talent, walking!!!

Enjoy! We've taken a lot of video and pictures over the last few weeks. I'll try to post some every day or so for the next week.

(Yes, that's a bib he's wearing as a cape. Al realized at dinner that Trevor's shirt was blue and his bib was red, so he did the logical thing and put the bib on backwards, turning our mild mannered little boy into...SUPER TREVOR!!! for the rest of the evening.)

For those of you wondering how Grendel and Trevor are getting along...

This video is a riot...

OK, here they are! Both Allan and I were asked where the Trevorsaur pictures were today. Sorry it took us so long to post them! :)

Trevor wasn't so sure about his dino costume at first, but after a while he got used to it. After we wrestled him into the costume, we put put him down and when he started to crawl the stuffed tail started to wiggle. It was very cute and very funny.

He was a big hit at the football game (whose idea was it to put Halloween on a Friday anyway???). Although a lot of people asked why he wasn't a cougar. At least he was cougar green and gold. Again, he was a very good boy and let everyone hold him!

There's also a picture of him in a drawer. Yeah, I don't know. Kids get into the darndest things!!