Happy Turkey Day

Happy Thanksgiving! For Hannah's first Thanksgiving, she got to have 3 Thanksgiving meals. We started out Wednesday night at our cousin Kylie's house in Wylie. We had an wonderful meal with the Yeager cousins and Hannah got to meet several cousins she had never met. Thursday we had Thanksgiving with Mema at the Gaylord Resort. It was a huge delicious buffet and we had a champagne brunch. Hannah literally stuffed herself. She ate chicken strips, turkey, stuffing (she loves it!), sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, french toast, croissant, and pudding. I think she ate more than I did! Thursday night we headed over to Aunt Harriet's and Uncle Barry's house for another homemade feast! Everything was wonderful and we got to see Great-Grandma and cousin Rosalind. Friday, Mimi, Kylie, and Kamber and I enjoyed spa treatments at the resort! WONDERFUL! We are spending time enjoying the cousins and relaxing! Enjoy the pictures!

Hannah in one of her new Christmas outfits!

Hannah with her sippy cup!

What a turkey!

Mommy and Hannah

Daddy and Hannah

Great-Grandma and Hannah

Great Mema and Hannah

Cousin Rosalind with Hannah

Huge Gingerbread house!

Beautiful (and delicious) Turkey at Uncle Barry and Aunt Harriet's

Hannah's First Thanksgiving

Hannah "stuffed" herself!

Cousin Brady

Cousin Bryson

Trying to get 3 kids to look at the camera!

Happy Anniversary!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Please excuse the pile of my clothes behind Hannah
Who could resist?

Riding toys are our new favorite thing! Note to Santa*

Just a quick blog before I take a small hiatus to enjoy several Thanksgiving feasts with various family members. I will be sitting down for a total of 3 Thanksgiving dinners this year. Despite the overwhelming sadness that is setting in that my Mom is not here with us as we embark on the holiday season, I truly have so much to be Thankful for this season. I am one hundred percent aware of all the blessings in my life and I Thank God everyday for everything I have. I am also aware of all of the other people out there who are struggling during this season. I hope you all have a very very Happy and Safe Turkey Day! (and Gig Em' Ags!)

I told you we have been busy!

Hannah is getting a new house!

Ohhh the busier we get!

Apparently I am not the only one neglecting my blog... (pictures to come!)

Sorry about the recent neglect, I try to post more than once a week but we have just been busy busy Yeagers and last week was no different. Besides, just being plain busy, I haven't had too much blog about. I went to work, Hannah went to school, Stuart went to work... blah blah blah.

Tuesday was Junior League, Wednesday we went to a grief class at Stonegate on surviving the holidays after the loss of a loved one, Thursday Stuart went out for dinner and drinks with his guy friends, and Friday I went over to my friend Allison's for wine.

Hannah is walking a little bit more but nothing really new. Her appetite is tremendous and has a new love for Rosas #12 chicken. She loves anything she can eat by herself. This includes french fries, chicken, bread, ravioli, and anything sweet. She does so well with her sippy cup that I am tempted to just forget all about the bottle!

This week coming up will be a big week for us! I am not sure when I will be able to post about everything we are doing, so bear with me!

Updated*

Tonight we went over to our sweet friends Laura and Jeremy's house to watch Tech get wrecked by OU. We had such a great time hanging out with them, Todd, Janai, and the boys. Hannah loved playing with Brody and Owen. Not one tear was shed by any of them. They all played so well. Maybe since Owen and Brody are so use to sharing, neither of them minded when Hannah stole something from them.

Tomorrow I am going with Dad to Lubbock to meet with the artist Jena who is painting my Mom's portrait.

Have you had a good weekend?

Just a few pictures of my precious baby to tide you over!

Open House

Hannah's beautiful art work!
Hannah in her Thanksgivng outfit I got at Merry Market Place

Today was Hannah's open house at school. There are eight kids in Hannah's class, three boys and five girls. There are 4 October birthdays, 4 December birthdays and 1 January birthday. Hannah is actually 2nd to the youngest. Some of the kids are walking and all the others crawling. At school the kids do music, art, story time, etc. I am just in love with her program. They have a calender for everyday and they are learning so much. Each day concentrates on a bible verse, a song, a book, tactile stuff, gross motor stuff, etc. Hannah has brought home some beautiful art work! We are so proud of her! The teachers say she doesn't smile at school. I am not sure why not, she smiles a lot at home.

At Open House today we got to see all the kids with their parents. Everyone was in class today. The music teacher came in and we sat on the mat and sang several songs. We used noise shakers, scarves, and our hands while we sang. Hannah is good at doing at the teacher does. The teachers also presented us with bound books of what our children have done so far. The whole book had pictures of Hannah doing the things they do in school. There was pictures of her first day, eating lunch, napping, playing outside, riding in the buggy, cleaning out a pumpkin, painting her pumpkin, music class, and other pictures of her playing in class.

I am so fortunate to have Hannah in such a wonderful program. It is comforting to know that she is in such good hands while away from us.

Last Weekend

Hannah checking out Lillian's pacifier before Phoebe ate it!

Hannah and Lillian

Hannah in her "pink" before Baryn's party

Friday was Merry Market Place in Odessa. Merry Market Place is the Junior League of Odessa's annual fundraiser. It is Christmas themed and they have tons of vendors come from all over with their stuff. I spent several hours there on Friday and bought some great stuff! I bought some really cute Christmas decorations, some REALLY cute clothes for Hannah, a couple of things for me, and some stocking stuffers. I love going to Merry Market and it seems to just get better every year.

While I was at Merry Market, Hannah's friend Lillian came over. (Betty watched both of them). Hannah was not a very good hostess. She first grabbed Lillian's nose and then pulled her hair! Phoebe ate Lily's pacifier, and every time Lillian had a toy, Hannah would take it away! I am so embarrassed. Why won't my child share? I send her to Mother's Day Out so she learns to share!!!

Friday night Hannah went to bed early and Stuart and I had a candlelit Johnny Carino's dinner at the house! How sweet was that?!

Saturday morning I worked for a couple of hours and saw a couple of sick kids before going to Amanda Fralin's baby shower. This was fun because I got to sit with my Mom's Same Day Surgery friends. Baby Jack got lots of cute stuff. Amanda is due right around the same time I was last year!

After a quick nap, Hannah and I headed over the Brown's for Baryn's Pink Two year old birthday party. Greenie the clown was there and Hannah was really interested in her, watched her, and even touched her hair! I am glad she wasn't scared. She also got to see some of her friends, June, Brody, Owen, and more.

That night Kristan came over and Stuart and I went to Wall Street for a fun dinner with Laura and Jeremy! We had a blast hanging out them and can't wait to do it again before Jackson gets here.

I took call the whole weekend and got lots of calls about diaper rashes! Seriously??? That cannot wait til Monday?

Happy Election Day!

Don't you just love this cute little monkey?

VOTE!

Make sure your vote counts!

And... check back later today for pictures of my adorable daughter in her "Election Day" attire!

Throw Up

Totally disgusting, I know... But shouldn't I blog about Hannah's first time to throw up? Can you consider that a milestone? Sadly, Hannah threw-up tonight, right after I gave her the disgusting antibiotic that we have now been on twice a day for a week. I will spare you the details of what she threw up but it is safe to say, this was no baby "spit up," this was an entire dinner! Mommy, who HATES throw up (and wanted to throw up herself!) cleaned up Hannah, while sweet Daddy cleaned up the floor/throw up. Hannah is now bathed and sound asleep in her crib with a doctor appointment at 8:00 in the morning to have those ears rechecked!

This Messy Girl

I hate messes! I really try and keep our house cleaned up. This happens every time Hannah is in the office...

Our new gate

Because Hannah can crawl at the speed of light and loves to splash around in the dog bowls and eat dog food... I bought a gate. You can't tell but this particular gate has a doggy door in that is now locked because Hannah followed her puppies through it.

Instead of a dog food diet, Hannah is currently loving bananas! Cheerios, chicken, beans and rice, pasta, and cinnamon apples. We are working on getting in 3 good meals a day. I am not sure if I have already talked about this on my blog or not, but Hannah weaned herself from breastfeeding last weekend. She decided that biting was fun (followed by a laugh in response to my scream!) and was just no longer interested in nursing. I was disappointed and tried for 3 days with the same response. I am proud of myself for nursing this long, and I guess I am thankful that her teeth came in later than early. Nursing came really easy to me, it wasn't something that I "loved" but I loved knowing that my baby was getting the very best possible. Supplementing formula is sooooooo much easier, but I am looking forward to being able to nurse my next baby (in a few years!). Also, in less than 2 months Hannah will be on whole milk! We are transitioning from the bottle to a sippy cup and she LOVES to drink from straws. Taking her out to eat has become even more fun because she is such a good eater. Today we ate at Dos Compadres (we eat there every Sunday and at least another time during the week) and Hannah ate an entire plate of beans and rice plus several pieces of chicken. She is such a big girl!

A Miracle Baby

As you can see, I changed my Mckmama button to the left. Instead of me blogging about Baby Stellan's miraculous birth, I will send you to my friend Kelli's blogs to read all about it. Frankly, she did a better job than I could have on summarizing...
http://bkdavisblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/collective-amen.html

(Thanks Kelli for letting me "borrow" your well written post!)

Happy Halloween

Happy First Halloween to my 10 month baby girl! Hannah was not too thrilled to be in costume so I just took her up to my office, to Stuart's office, my Dad's office and then to Mimi's. Mimi got her a great trick or treat bag filled with adorable Halloween books! That was it for our little trick or treater... and we went to eat at Olive Garden and came back to Mimi's and watched a movie. Our neighborhood was packed, car to car, stopping at each house... I have chosen the past few years not to stay at home and pass out candy. Good choice, because I would have been out of candy in 30 minutes with that big of crowd!