This year we decided to stay home for Thanksgiving and have dinner with our close friends Michelle, Drew, Porter and Cameron who are also big fans of a parade! We started the morning off uptown to scope our parade spots (our group came prepared with chairs, strollers, and cones!!). It was a little chilly and rainy but everyone had a great time watching all of the bands and floats walk by. We then headed home to make dinner and watch a little football. Dinner was great and I think we have started a new tradition of parading and eating with friends!
Saturday we headed over to Granny Gary's for a nice visit. I forgot the camera in the car but the kids were having so much fun at her house that I am not sure if I could have stopped them long enough to snap any pictures.
Saturday night we stayed with Nina, Bob, Caroline and Megan (and their dogs Shiloh and Chloe) which might have been one of the best sleepovers ever. Caroline pulled out her old Barbie trunk (complete with 4 barbies, star rocker Ken and clothing to match) which might have topped Santa in the gift department this year. She LOVES the barbies and has carried her trunk around with her everywhere she goes. She also loves that Ken has stars on his head that change color. Hudson loved watching Elmo on their computer and telling Chloe "bang, bang!"as you can see from the video below.
Sunday our cousin Sara had her baby shower and it was great seeing all of the family together. I am pretty sure he's all set with Clemson gear for the next 18 years! Overall it was a wonderful weekend!
Well...as you might notice from the picture, Gwennie is missing her soccer uniform. That's because she is battling a cold and ended up running a fever right before her game so we missed the finale of the "Pink Princesses" in action! Our good buddy Ayla brought over Gwennie's trophy and we hope this is the first of many (I think Gwennie wants to do ballet again so we might be back to ballet posts).
Gwennie also had her Thanksgiving performances at school this week. There are a bunch of videos of all of the kids performing. They all were so cute in their "countries". Gwennie is Mexico and in case you didn't hear here her part she said..."Hola from Mexico, I bring you salsa and chips!". We were a little nervous that "Hola, My name is Dora" was going to sneak in there but she's a performer through and through! To view the videos, click on the grey screen once the pictures finish to open Picasa Web and then the video will load.
And this is what we found at Target today.....
This weekend we 
didn't take many pictures because I was out sick all day Saturday with a stomach bug that the kids brought home on Wednesday. The kids actually fared better than I did. They were only out on Wednesday and were back in action Thursday morning. I am still a bit queasy today and am hoping to get some sort of appetite back soon.
So...since I didn't take any pictures I figured I'd give a recap of the past month of what it's like to be the parent of a toddler boy. Mind you Gwennie was all over the place as well but Hudson seems to find ways to scare us more than I ever thought a little kid could. Let's start with about a month ago...that Saturday at one of Gwennie's soccer games he tripped and fell and landed on Corbin which resulted in him biting the sides of his tongue (nothing major...just a few tears and a little blood), then the day after he ran head first into the refrigerator and ended up with a large goose egg. Later that day we had decided to meet his godparents (and Crawford) at a pumpkin patch and as we were walking around, one of the employees was driving a bit too fast to park and as he passed us, Hudson turned and literally ran into the back tire of the moving truck! It's hard to explain (and still hard to talk about because I was right there screaming and right next to him) how it happened because he was all of two feet away from me. Anyhow, miraculously he "bounced" off the tire and was not hurt at all. The only thing he had was a little red mark on his head. Then just about every day that week he managed to run into something at daycare. And....tonight when he was running around before bath, he tripped again and when he fell both Corbin and I knew it was going to be another moment our hearts jumped into our chest. Luckily the worst of it was a fat lip and after a few minutes of tears and an ice pack, he was back in action.
Suffice to say that boys are nothing like girls and I don't know what I am going to do once he starts playing organized sports. As his pediatrician and our good friend Jennifer says "Hallelujah, praise the lord, there must be an angel watching over him". I can't agree more...thank you to the folks upstairs and sorry to keep you so busy!
This year we decided to stay home for Thanksgiving and have dinner with our close friends Michelle, Drew, Porter and Cameron who are also big fans of a parade! We started the morning off uptown to scope our parade spots (our group came prepared with chairs, strollers, and cones!!). It was a little chilly and rainy but everyone had a great time watching all of the bands and floats walk by. We then headed home to make dinner and watch a little football. Dinner was great and I think we have started a new tradition of parading and eating with friends!
