Yowza!

Where to begin? We travelled to St. Louis for the weekend prior to heading down to Oklahoma for Thanksgiving. Kacey decided that might be a good time to get sick. We went to my buddy Mike's wedding, but left before the reception so that Kacey could get some rest. She apparently decided to share her sickness with her father, who started feeling bad on Sunday, as Kacey was getting over it. Since she was feeling better, we went down to Tulsa that Monday, spent a couple of days with my grandparents, then went on to Madill. When we got down there, Kacey decided she wasn't done being sick, and Caitlyn decided she didn't really like her regular sleep schedule and decided not to as much as possible. After a few days of this, we left to return to St. Louis to retrieve our dog, whom my parents-in-law watched for us for a couple of weeks, and went back to Columbia. As all of this ridiculousness gave me my first ever stress headache, I was ready to get back to work. Fortunately, I was scheduled to go shoot at an art fair in Miami. I went down for a couple of days, enjoyed the weather, shot some video, then came home. We've been laying low the past week trying to get back in the swing of things.

Caitlyn had her 6-month appointment the other day, she's in the 20th percentile for weight, and the 90th percentile for height. I guess she's kind of a string bean.

Now, what you've all been waiting for, pictures of Caitlyn enjoying her extended family. Oh, and some pictures of my French brother-in-law filleting a catfish.


Caitlyn had fun walking to Grandad:

And playing with Grandma:

And playing with Grandad:
Noah hid from us some of the time:

Though he did think his mother's fingers were tasty:

Benjamin got to hang out with Uncle Jim and Mimi:

And he got to dive tackle his dad:

And play with Aunt Kacey's feet:

And he was nice to his cousin:

Yeah, Alisa had a camera there, too.

Christine offered to help hold Caitlyn some during Thanksgiving:

Alex even got to help feed her:

Caitlyn and Noah got to play together a bit:

Kacey and Caitlyn and BethAnn and Kyra all played together for a while:

Alisa and Frederic's Christmas present to us was a game called "Jumpin' Monkeys" which they made us open before Thanksgiving. The instructions told us to use the catapults to fling our monkeys into the tree. The goal of the game seemed to be to cause chaos and ridiculousness, much like any other game we play at Thanksgiving.

There's Kyra hanging out with her daddy:

There's Noah hanging out with his mommy:


WARNING BETHANN!!! FISH IN THE NEXT FIVE PICTURES!!!!

There's Frederic hanging out with his fishy:

At least one of the following pictures may be a little graphic, don't look if you don't like eating catfish. Or if you do and don't want the experience ruined for you:


My dad and brother finally went at it...yep, they played Wii Boxing.
Here's a picture from last year of the three pregnant girls:

And here they are with their kiddos:
Frederic's French. He's still having trouble with this catfish concept:

Oh, and here's that cute girl that keeps growing up:

Just today Caitlyn started chewing on her teething ring voluntarily with the upper portion of her mouth. Top teeth shouldn't be far behind.



-jordan