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!

With Mommy and Uncle Charlie

4 Generations of Grangers...and Great Grandma trying to give me wine...sweet.

Frolicking...

Clearly not into family photos, as exhibited by the gagging sign

Pittman Clan

With my cuz Bailee, I like to show her the ropes because she is SO much younger...like 3 weeks, such a child.

Documentation of the torture my parents inflict on me almost nightly...bathing. This is going in their file.

The Holiday Photo Shoot setting...

Trying to bribe me to cooperate with cookies

It didn't work...although I did enjoy the cookies. Why waste good cookies, right?

My parents like this pic. It's the only decent one out of, say, 1,982 pictures, but that's a rough estimate.

Photo shoot is officially...
O.V.E.R.

Digging the Christmas tree shopping
Not so much Mrs. Claus
Or Mr. Claus
Yep, all the lights work...

The first ornament...drum roll please...

Just relaxing...
Fooled ya, didn't I? I don't ever relax silly!
Catching some Elmo with Daddy
Ok, maybe I'm getting tired now...just a little.

Month 20

So apparently in October this strange phenomenon occurs. Your parents dress you up like some sort of animal, cartoon character, or, in my case, food, and send you knocking on peoples' doors begging for junk food. And you know what I caught them doing? Keeping all that junk for themselves! That's right kids! Your parents TELL you, ohhh...you'll choke, or it could be poisoned, and THEN...THEY EAT IT! My parents dressed me as a pumpkin, and I'm just going to be honest, I wasn't into it. Not at all. When we first brought the costume home, I though hmmm...this might be kinda cool. So I put it on, pranced around the neighborhood, and was done. I see no need to dress up as a pumpkin AGAIN. So after that night, I refused to let the pumpkin suit come anywhere near me. Did I wear it to the Halloween carnival at school? No, I did not. Did I wear it to the Halloween party at Borden's house? Nope. Did I wear it on Halloween night? I did wear it to 3 houses, then decided it was for the birds and stripped. But Mommy came prepared. She helped me to express myself through the written language and iron-on letters. I will let the pictures illustrate this.

While I wasn't so much into the costume, I did LOVE the decorations. Especially the pumpkins, or "pummies" as I like to call them. Mommy put some mini pummies in the house for decoration, and I would make her get them down and give me one for each hand to carry around. We even carved a really BIG pumpkin. It took my awhile to get used to the guts, but then I kind of liked picking the seeds out of them. I would help Mommy by flinging the guts into the trash, sometimes hitting the trash, sometimes the floor.

I'm really loving school and learning all sorts of new things...like "mine" and "stop!" Mommy and Daddy are super excited about that. I'm very independent and I don't even take my sassy into the classroom. I haven't brought it one single time. I know it's not allowed and when we pull through the carpool lane, I spew that sassy right out of my mouth! At school they give me a happy face on my hand everytime they change my diaper. I love to point to my hand and say "happy, happy." Sometimes, they even give me one on the other hand, just because I like it so much!

I'll go ahead and get straight to the pictures, because I know it is really just to get a glimpse of my adorable mug that y'all come here anyway!
Bouncing in the jump-jump at the carnival...everyone else wore their costume. But I'm shepherd...not a sheep.
Decorating Halloween cookies

Bowling at the carnival 70s style...psychedelic man...

Getting ready to carve the pumpkin
Throwing the guts onto the floor...I mean trash
TA DA
I can look cute anywhere....even next to a jack-o-lantern
I'm not sure why I'm nekked, but I'm sure I had a good reason at the time.
The pumpkin transformation
Off to score some candy!
Not sure I'm thrilled about going up to a stranger's door...I thought talking to strangers was discouraged?
Soooo over the pumpkin suit
Trick or treating with my peeps
Enjoying a cupcake at the Halloween party. Bonus points if you can spot my costumer. Hint: I'm not wearing it.

Taking an important call while Mommy makes fruit kabobs for my class snack.
Move over Madeline there's a new girl in town.
Oh what a feeeeeelin', when you're dancin' on the...chairrrrrsssss
Modeling the coat Mommy made, clearly, I'm ecstatic
Do these boots make my feet look big?
I have a bit of a hoarding problem when it comes to the Starbuck's bears
Bet you can't guess how much Puppy LOVES me!!