Our Texas Thanksgiving...

We had a wonderful time visiting Mimi and Papa T in Corpus Christi! My mom was so excited to have us there for her first big holiday in Texas. We tried to experience as much as we could in a week. Unfortunately, Danny came down with the nastiest of stomach bugs on Thanksgiving day. He spent about 24 hours in bed, and then was back to normal in time to fly home Saturday morning. We were planning to spend a kid-free day in San Antonio on Friday, so we were pretty bummed to have missed that chance.

We had seriously low expectations about how Eli would do on the plane. I figured it would be best to just prepare for the worst. Boy did he surprise us! He did great on the two flights there, and did beyond amazing on the way home. We took a dvd player, lots of books and some new toys for the plane ride. He ran his little heart out during our layovers, and slept hard on the second flights. We were so very thankful, as there were screaming toddlers on both of our flights home.
Heading to Texas!
On Sunday we visited the Texas State Aquarium.
It was a gloomy day, so I'm glad we spent it mostly indoors.
Eli LOVED my mom's backyard. It's all fenced in, and then there's steps that lead down to their dock. He loved feeding the birds and fishing with daddy.
He watered Mimi's flowers over and over again...you can tell they needed it ;)
We took Eli to see Santa on Wednesday. None of us thought that he would get near him, but he did sit on his lap long enough for a few good pictures! I was thrilled, even more so that I didn't have to sit on Santa's lap with him!
Santa gave him a special prize for being a good boy :)
He loved getting to snuggle & read books with Mimi before bed each night.
Eli will his Thanksgiving day smile :)

We arrived home and threw ourselves into tackling our busy December schedule. It's a good kind of busy though! And as usual, I'm way behind on blogging.