Thanksgivings

This year we got to celebrate Thanksgiving three times. De-licious! Eloise enjoyed all the yummy food and our families sure enjoyed having her cute face at the dinner table this year. It's funny when a baby enters a family and we all think hard about what we ever did for entertainment and conversation before they were here. Holidays are taking on a whole new meaning with Eloise is our lives. We are blessed.

Eloise was helping me put up the Christmas tree.

And "helping" me wrap presents.

Eloise's first Thanksgiving!

Cuteness.

Waiting to eat her second Thanksgiving meal.

Mmmmm, stuffing!

Uh, Eloise...you got a little something...right, there....

Eloise serenaded us with a little piano music after dinner. (Video footage below.)

Helping put up Grandma's tree.

Ooooo, sparkles!

These presents are fake, Grandma!

Gotta get it just right.

We were so glad to get to visit some of our family who we don't get to see nearly as often as we'd like. And of course got to see the puppies, too!

Eloise's cousin, Shelby, reading to her. :)

Mmmmm, crackers.

There's just something about Papa Jerry that captures the attention of a child. Still does it to me.

Playing peek-a-boo with cousin Tristen.

Tristen teaching Eloise how to drive.

She is a natural.

Flower Child.

Not funny, Mom.

My favorite present under the tree.

My sweet, chubby baby girl. Love, love, LOVE her!

Here is Eloise's piano debut...

And footage of her first driving lesson...

In other news, Eloise is saying "Dada" now...

And last but not least, a tear-jerker. (In a laughing-so-hard-you-are-crying sort of way.)