To Thanksgiving and Beyond!

Ben's new favorite hangout.

Sweet potatoes as finger food.

Which leads to bath time. Watch out for the dread pirate Prune Beard.

Watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Ben really enjoyed the cheerleaders and the Broadway performers (and of course Mom made him watch the Rockettes.)

See, I can get in it myself.

And now everyone is happy that we can start getting ready for Ben's first Christmas! Next Sunday we'll go to welcome Santa at the Christmas parade (even though he's already at the malls, go figure.) Other than that it should be a pretty normal week - playgroup, library time, all that good stuff. :)

Oot and Aboot

Helping fold the laundry (well, more like pull it out and throw it on the floor but hey, why be picky?)

Still liking the Cheerios. And the box makes a great toy.

Happy to have our American cousins Maureen and Jason over to celebrate Thanksgiving!!

They even brought me a new toy. :)

We finally had some accumulating snow this week.

Dad measured 6cm outside. December must be close.

Such a busy week!

Mom's all worn out from all the standing this week!

And the cruising.

And some stepping.

We got a few breaks to read. Ben's getting pretty good at turning the pages. (Now we need to work on turning them forward and not back!)

And more standing.

Sitting is for wimps Ma, more standing for me!

Everyone's favorite - Cheerios!

We also met some new friends this week through some mommy groups and are going to playgroup on Monday with some of them! We're also off to Baby Rhyme Time at the library on Tuesday and will be celebrating Thanksgiving with some American cousins and friends here in Canada on Saturday and Sunday.

Getting more and more settled in our new home.

You're so funny Uncle Ned.

At the train station in Utica.

It's about time, now give me that dinner!

Out for a walk to the library.

Ben's travels

Ben's first train ride was great! So much fun, so much to see, and he even took a nap!

No trick-or-treating, but we did go visiting to show off Monkey Ben.

Like seeing Gramma at City Hall.

A good first Halloween!

Come here kitty, I'll share my cookie with you.

Ben loves playing with the newspaper (Christmas is going to be so much fun!)

Ben's first Cornerstone (Mom's 4th and Gramma's 5th!)

It's been a good week! So much visiting, so many people we've seen!

And Ben is now clapping and has 4 teeth! He's also working on pulling himself up and trying to take some steps! Watch out, time to really baby proof our apartment!