Laurelbug Lets Loose: Month 21

My 21st month marked my 2nd Thanksgiving. I'll get to that later. First, I would like to comment on Christmas cards. In this month, my parents also set the scene for the annual Christmas card photo shoot. Mommy dressed me up in adorable white Christmas dress with petite Christmas trees adorning the collar. They then pulled out a mini Christmas tree, complete with ornaments, homemade Christmas cookies, decorated with homemade icing, as well as a white sheet to provide the illusion of a snowy backdrop, (because that would really fool people into thinking there's snow when we live in Wilmington and it is 82 degrees outside). They thought it was really adorable and fun. I thought it was too. About as fun as, say...sticking bamboo shoots up your fingernails, or eating glass. So if you were a lucky recipient of our Christmas card, you got to see just how productive the photo shoot was. If you weren't so lucky, I can tell you I am representing Halloween on the card.

Thanksgiving was really fun this year and I was excited to celebrate with both sides of my extended family. Everything was relatively tame. There was no name calling or drunken insults. However, the shenanigans of Christmas did not disappoint. I'll save that for next month, but I will tell you there were a few impressive insults flung around including, but not limited too, "whale tail." For Thanksgiving, we had an early celebration with my Paw Paw. Then we went to my Nana's house on Thanksgiving day, THEN that afternoon we drove to my other grandparents' house and got to see ALL my cousins (and eat more food).

At the beginning of the month, something REALLY exciting happened. Mommy and Daddy left me to go to NYC. For a weekend. What? I'm eating solid food and sleeping through the night (usually). I'm totally independent. Just kidding! I stayed with my Nana. We had a great time and so did Mommy and Daddy. Although they spent the first day of their trip, saying "hmmm, I feel like I've forgotten something." Then they'd remember it was me and laugh hysterically. Just kidding. Although I'm fairly certain they greased Nana's palm to make sure she'll take me on again, I think they missed me.

Until next month, you can look at my pics and wish you were this cute!