Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with family in Austin at Jim and Alba's house. The lake is still very low. The water should be over Andrew and Andra's heads.Andra got to see her cousin Cici. They are very cute and are starting to play with each other (Cici is 4 months younger then Andra).
Andra was very happy to play with her Godfather Mark.

Andra even got to wear the sheriff's hat.

I'm home!

I was in Seattle for 5 days for a conference. Yes, that left Andrew at home with Andra by himself. He did a great job! I did set him up with pre-made home made food for him and Andra for the week. And made a list of everything that had to go in her lunch box, and what of Andra food to take out of the freezer to make sure she had different veggies at every meal. It was great to video chat with them a few times a day but was very hard to not be home with them. I cried on the airplane up and the first few nights and then again when the pilot said we were getting ready to land in SA. That said, it was great to see and spend time with my sister-in-law Jennifer. I had never been to Seattle so she showed me the town.

Daddy's helper

Andrew had to replace the mailbox so Andra wanted to help. Then they went inside to draw. We tried to get her to let us outline her hand for hand turkeys but she wanted none of it.

Double dipper

We went to Chuy's for dinner on Friday. They have a great jalapeno ranch dressing that they bring you in a bowl to dip your chips in (yes, they bring hot sauce as well). We had our waitress bring a small bowl of regular ranch because Andra was protesting that we were not letting her dip her chips. She was so cute when she got "her" ranch. She would "adjust" her chip to make sure it was just right for dipping. She did so good and was so proud of herself. This was the first time she dipped anything and she really did a great job. Yes, she ate all her dinner after we let her have some ranch and chips. The video is not great because it was taken with Andrew's iphone.

Hurricane Andra

Another Little Gym picture but this one is for the hair!

Andra loves The Little Gym

This video is a little long but ........On Halloween The Little gym had an open house for you to come play. Normally you can only go during your "class" time. Andra loves to go. She does best when there is someone to watch first but did very good on her own on Saturday. The one new thing she did was a "climbing" wall. It has never been out when we are there so it was new to Andra. We did not think she would go very high because we had not seen anyone go up it. We were wrong. She did get a little stuck at the bar but then had fun watching all the kids while she was up there. This is why even thou she is "small" for her age her crib mattress is already at the lowest level.