Thanksgiving 2012

Marc was assigned to be on OB and medicine call for Thanksgiving this year. Because he was covering OB, he had to be within 20 minutes of the hospital which meant he could not be with us at his parents' house which is 40 minutes away. And of course, he didn't get any calls the entire day. :) He was able to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with our extended family that live in Peoria so we all got our fix of turkey.

Eli and Hailey were helping Papa scope out the good deals for the day-after sales

 Eli and Evan

 Maddy and Hailey

 Hailey was fascinated by Maddy's Merida wig from the movie Brave. She loves dress-up right now so I found a Cinderella dress the day after Thanksgiving that she will be so excited to open this Christmas.

 We enjoyed watching these cousins play together.

 It was even warm enough for us to take an outing to the park. I hope the above average temperatures continue through winter!

We sure missed spending time with Marc on Thanksgiving, but we were excited to see when we got home that he had the kids' new beds put together (Hailey has a pink comforter that is on the way). We are moving Hailey into Eli's room and will put the new baby in Hailey's room at night when he is two or three months old. They are SO very excited about this that we know we are bound to lose some sleep once we make the transition. I am sure lots of giggles and laughs will be coming from those beds way past bedtime. ;) In the past 3 months we have potty trained Hailey, broken Hailey of her pacifier, broken Eli of his thumb sucking habit, and started Eli in a new school. These are two very adaptable kids so I am hopeful this move will go just as well. Marc is much less optimistic. Ha!