Thanksgiving 2010

Thanksgiving was great this year! It was nice to be in Nebraska actually. I was glad that we only had to drive 30 minutes to Joe's parents house. I hate traveling all the way to IL on Thanksgiving b/c the roads are so freakin' busy. We had a nice relaxing time with the fam. Grant played with his Lightning McQueen car that Gma & Gpa bought him. It's one of those that has a ginormous battery and he pushes a peddle to drive it around... he LOVES it. He also found an old Monster Truck toy that was Joe's when he was a kid. Grant loved watching that thing drive over stuff. It would even drive over GRANT when he was laying down on the floor. He laughed his butt off. He calls it "monster truck mater". I guess it's Mater from the "Cars" movie. He has a short DVD of "Maters Tall Tales" and one of the tall tales is called "Monster Truck Mater".

Penny had a great Thanksgiving but had a really bad black friday! She had a bad tummy ache and diarea all day long. I think it had to have been from the well water at Gma & Gpa's house. I made a few bottles for her on Thanksgiving w/ their water and that's the ONLY thing I can think of that was different for her. Joe thinks this is totally possible that something in the water upset her MSPI. Probably not any actual milk or soy but she's bothered by LOTS of things. It could be too much rust for all I know. Anyway, it made for a bad Friday and I felt bad for Penny. She was unconsolable and upset a lot of the day and I just hate when she gets like that because you can't help her really. :( But she was feeling better by Friday night.

Saturday I went to Des Moines for my annual Christmas shopping trip w/ my mom & sister. We always meet out there. It's like 1/2 way for both of us so it works out really well. I got a lot of shopping done! I hope to finish it up this week. Penny and Grant went to Gma & Gpa Schulz's house and had a great time. Penny was much happier that day I heard.

We still have to go pick out a tree. We plan to do that this weekend. I'm not sad that we're getting it a week later than normal b/c I think this year it's going to be interesting to see if Grant messes with the tree or not. I'm pretty sure he will. He messes w/ everything else, why not the tree? I imagine he'll have a blast taking all the decorations off of it... should be a fun month! lol!!! :) He's an awesome kiddo and I absolutely adore him but he's also... two.