Happy first Thanksgiving! Today you had your first plane ride as you, Mommy and Daddy flew two hours from Houston Hobby to Tampa to meet your aunt Danielle, uncle Craig and cousins, Emma and Elaine. The plane ride was okay for you as you worked on your pacifier, slept in Mommy’s arms, or ate a bottle. The ride was much more painful for Mommy and Daddy who both are still under the weather with colds–stuffiness + pressure changes = unhappy.

Grandma Carol met us at the airport and took us to Emma and Ellie’s other grandparents’, Keith and Lorre’s, house for Thanksgiving dinner. Mommy and Daddy got to try their first turducken: a chicken, a duck and a turkey all deboned, seasoned and baked together as one big, tasty, hybrid bird. You got to try your first sweet potatoes, which you liked very much. Your cousins, who are 7 1/2 and 6 1/2, thought you were very cute and funny…but they did not agree with us that the noises you make constitute “talking” since they could not understand your words.