post-Turkey Day excitement

So, happy day after Thanksgiving... I refuse to call it bl**k Friday... because the stock market didn't crash... and no one called it that before a couple of years ago, despite the recent media bandwagon.

Anyway, I digress. Thanksgiving was good here. We had a pretty small gathering here, just us, one of my grad students and one of Danette's co-workers and her 12-year old daughter (who came over while their husband/dad had to work as a police officer). Enjoyable company and Sara played nice most of the day, though she was engaging in her recent strategy of micro-naps... (though she is sleeping well today!). The weather here was great, ~50 degrees or so and completely blue sky and same today. We even took a walk before it got dark yesterday with Sara, which she loved.


This morning, since Sara gets up pretty early, we decided to do the early x-mas shopping thing for a little while... so Sara's first experience of holiday shopping, she even had some ideas of her own ;).

She did quite well and had fun... then came home and took a good nap! After that and a little cereal she was thirsty, but mom wasn't easily at hand and warming up a bottle just wasn't going to be the best idea for a few minutes... so we tried water, from a sippy cup... and not only did she take it (eventually) she held the cup herself! talk about a bunch of first for her.

Probably take another walk this afternoon... and then tomorrow morning we get to see Stacey, Scott (friends from STL) and their son Carter who are in town to see some family... so more fun!