Blanket = sleep

Oh, my darling daughter. Isn't she fabulously adorable? Yes. And she is also enjoying that graham cracker. Here she is with her auntie Rosie and her rocking horse, at her grandmother's house for Thanksgiving. All the best things in the world!

Thanksgiving was lovely. Really great food (um, best sweet potatoes ever!), lovely company, lots of relaxing, etc. Evelyn wasn't at her best, what with being away from her own bed and all, but she was pretty good. She really liked the wooden rocking horse in the picture above, as well as a cool dog book Carol has at her house. Oh, and all the people telling her how cute she is. Wait, maybe it's just me that likes that!

After Thanksgiving dinner I saw Fantastic Mr. Fox with Jon and Rosie and I loved it. LOVED it. So much fun, and beautiful, too.

The rest of the weekend we spent getting ready for the next holiday by cutting down a Christmas tree, decorating it and the house, and putting up lights outside. Our house is exploding Christmas joy, so be prepared. We underestimated Evelyn's grabbing height and already we have a couple broken tree ornaments. She also has taken quite fondly to candy canes. Sigh. Yes, she has inherited my sweet tooth.

Other things this week: Evelyn has suddenly become very attached to one of her blankets. She pulls it out of her crib, drags it around the house, drags it through the front yard, chews on it, leaves it on the floor for the dogs to walk over, pulls it over her head, covers the dogs with it, etc. I don't know if this is short-lived obsession or a new "attachment item," but it is already causing issues because that dang blanket was SO dirty. We had to wash it. But alas, Evelyn didn't sleep well last night. Finally, at 3:30am, after Jon had tried all other tactics to get her to sleep, he went and got the blanket out of the dryer and gave it to me to give to her. Usually, after Evelyn has been awake for a while at night (which isn't very often, really), she gets mad as a bee if you try to put her back in her crib. But once she saw her blanket, she just snuggled up with it, fussed for a second, and then went back to sleep. Ugh. Blanket = sleep. So I went online this fine Cyber Monday to try and find a replica blanket, but to no avail. They don't make them anymore! At least not that I could find. I guess we better hang on to the one we have!

Also, Evelyn got her first real goose egg. She slipped and hit her head on a table and ended up with a big goose egg welt on her forehead. Poor baby. I think it hurt me as much as her. The table also scraped her head, so after the bruising went down, she still has a big scratch on her forehead. I hate it when she gets hurt.

And so I guess that is all. I hope everyone had a lovely holiday.