Thanksgiving: Outsourced.

Well, this Thanksgiving weekend, both Jason and I are working. I am on call from home for all four days, and Jason worked Thursday during the day, and for 24 hours on Friday. Ugh!!

This meant we couldn't head to Sonoma for Thanksgiving dinner at the Greenbergs. :( It also meant we needed childcare on Thursday and Friday when the daycare was closed.

Solution: send Ethan to Sonoma for Thanksgiving dinner with the family, while we work.
Thank goodness for family!


Jason and I even managed to go out on Thanksgiving for dinner when he was done at 6pm. Most restaurants were closed, other than the ethcnic ones, so we went out for Indian food!
I was actually surprised at how croweded the place was considering it was Thanksgiving night.....almost every table was taken.



Today, Ethan returned from his vacation in Sonoma. He said it was a good get-away. :)

Visit to Chicago

Last week, Ethan and Dad took a trip to Chicago to visit the Ferschl's.


Mom joined on Thursday.

Ethan did pretty well on the plane and had lots of fun at grandma and grandpa's house.



We visited great-grandma Ferschl, and saw the exteneded Ferschl clan for Friday fish fry.


Also got to celebrate and early Thanksgiving/belated birthday for grandma/early birthday for Jason.



A nice trip, and we beat the holiday travel rush!!

The terrible twos are coming!

Ethan isnt even 2 yet, but were getting a sense of why the phrase "terrible twos" was coined. Ever since his language has improved, he's become very demanding. The development of the word "mine" in the past few weeks hasn't helped either.

When we dont respond to him, he repeats the word louder and louder. He can go on FOREVER! And when we still dont respond they way he wants, he has a complete temper tantrum. Today's walk went something like this:
"Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, WAAAAAH"
The joys of parenting. Sigh.

Trick or Treat

Last weekend, Ethan went on his first trick or treat adventure. It started with a pizza party at a friends house. Ethan is the short one on the end!



Ethan was a bit younger than the other kids, but held his own. He was able to walk up to different houses by himself - grab candy out of the bucket, then come back to dad and mom! He lasted about six houses and of course mom and dad inspected the treats carefully (read: ate) after it was all over.