Thanksgiving Fun

We had our annual Thanksgiving trip with a few minor changes. The first being our niece was born on Sunday. Xenia Timea decided to come early so we could all see her and bring pictures to the rest of the family.

Ryan: "Alex, come over here. That's your baby sister."
Alex (after looking through the window at her.): "Oh."

I think he ended up being pretty happy with her, though.

Caitlyn did pretty well on the car trip down to Tulsa. She had fun with her toys and snacks.

She even tried to share her graham cracker with her doll:

We stopped for gas shortly after entering Oklahoma and found a buffalo ranch to walk around and look at:

And this terribly educational historical marker:

Caitlyn had fun playing with her cousins at Grandma and Grandad Lundy's house:

Even if they did wear her out:

Here's Frederic looking at the phone confusedly:

Benjamin had lots of fun with Uncle Jim:

We tried to get the kids to sit still for a picture with their great-grandparents. Got a couple of ok shots.
Most were more along this line, though:

Benjamin was happy I brought "Monkeys" down to Thanksgiving:

All the kids (and some of the adults) had fun at the playground.

Caitlyn and Noah both decided their Great-grandad Crowe was alright since he'd pick them up so they could go down the slide:

Noah apparently goes down slides backwards:

Then he dared me to make fun of the way he does things:

The second minor change was not stopping in OK city to visit friends. Sorry Les. Two of the three friends couldn't make it and the monster was already sleeping in the car. (life is much better when children sleep on car trips). The third difference was we left at night hoping Caitlyn would sleep the whole way back to St Louis. We were not so lucky. She woke up when we stopped and unfortunately couldn't get back to sleep cuz we made several small stops with bright light which kept her awake. (gas station, toll both ticket station, toll both paying station) It took us about an hour and half to get her back to sleep, then the rest went rather well.

My parents took care of Caitlyn when we got back so Jordan and I could sleep. That was very much appreciated. She had a good time at the Science Center with her cousin. Thankfully the trip back home was much less exciting although long. It must have been all the college students coming back, cuz it took us twice as long as it usually does to get back.

All in all a good trip. We got to see lots of family and we all had a great time. Can't wait for next year, then again maybe we can.

Caitlyn had a lot of fun at Thanksgiving. We got back home and she still has fun.

And sometimes wants all of her barrettes put in her hair.

But we have put her back to work:

And she's figured out that my headphones make noise sometimes.

She's started bundling up for the cold, too:

Hopefully our Christmas blog won't take as long to put up. =)