Monday, December 22, 2008

Thanksgiving 1-4

Thanksgiving is a multi-day event in the Cleary household and we had 4 wonderful celebrations.

It started off a week before Thanksgiving with our small group and Natalie Johnson made an amazing complete Thanksgiving meal for our group. Very impressive.
Ethan and Emily Johnson played a great little game before the feast. Here's how it goes: Mike gives ball to Emily. Ethan takes it from Emily and throws it. Repeat.
Thanksgiving #2 was the weekend before Thanksgiving with our old college friends at the Thrash's house. We also got to meet Hazel for the first time. I ate way too much and we had a great time.
Gina with adorable Hazel Rose.Ella was in heaven when Beth let her play with Beth's makeup bag. Ella is such a lady!

Thanksgiving #3 was actually on Thanksgiving with Mike's extended family at his cousin's house. Many of them had either not met Ethan or not seen him since he was a few months old. It was a great get-together with lots of food and family.

Showing off his walking skills brought squeals of delight!

I love this picture of Deya with her brother Jorge.
I just had to add this one in. It's a picture of Mike's 2nd cousin, Will, who was "collecting dollars." He didn't do too bad. :) In case anyone read this far down, I collect dollars too!
Thanksgiving #4 was at my parent's house the day after Thanksgiving. It was as great meal and we even got some ping pong action in. Ethan didn't get much of an afternoon nap that day so my hands were a little full and I didn't get many pictures. Here's one of my uncle and my only 1st cousin, Natalia.

Why???

Why is it that Ethan starts sleeping through the night just before we head out of town? He did it last summer the night before we left for Yosemite and now here we are about to leave for Christmas. I think the difference has definitely been food this time. It's tricky to get him to eat enough solids. The books I read said he would eat what he needed. Hog wash!!! He ate like a bird and then woke up all night long. I found if I was creative with toys he would eat more. What do you know he immediately started sleeping better and now he's gone the whole night through. The irony is that when he changes his sleeping patterns to sleep longer I don't sleep as well. I woke up at 6:00 and realized I hadn't fed him. Then I'm excited and I can't go back to sleep. And so I am getting back to blogging. Sorry for the dry spell but E and I were sick at the beginning of Dec and after that all my evening time was used on Christmas projects. Are you ready for catch up time?

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Just like Dad

I still need to add all my pictures from Thanksgiving but in the mean time here is one of Ethan playing piano with his dad. He's well on his way to taking after Dad in music!