Christmas Preview

I'll get Christmas pics up soon - in the meantime, here are a few teasers:

Saul and cousin Landon had a great time playing in an ice chest

Saul is obviously B's child - where else would he have inherited a tendency to drink salsa straight from the jar?

Dancing at Mozart's

I kid you not, Saul picked up four college chicks at the next table.

Trail of Lights 2008

Last year, Saul stayed awake while we walked the Trail of Lights, but just barely. This year, he was a little more into it, shrieking at Max from Where the Wild Things Are, growling at some spinning teddy bears, and totally having the best time of his life spinning under the Zilker tree.

Pics for Grandmas

Happy birthday, Grandmas!

Saul

I swear, the only time he slows down enough for me to take a picture is when he is asleep.

A spotty Thanksgiving pictorial

I only occasionally remembered to get out my camera during our long Thanksgiving holiday.

Saul enjoys his first non-breastmilk Thanksgiving dinner

Saul lets me know that he has completed said dinner by signing "all done" and smearing cranberry sauce on everything he can reach

Saul plays with cousin Tara, aunt Becky and uncle Greg. Note the vacuum cleaner in the foreground. He managed to find at least one vacuum at every house we visited.

Playing in the front yard with cousin Tara

Viewing his first real live cow

Hanging out at Granny and Grandpa's

My boys


Saul made an abrupt dietary change last week and decided that he likes meat after all. He ate two ribs and two bowls of beans all by himself and was back to begging for cookies only an hour later.

Visiting my great-aunt Irene and great-uncle Wilson. I guess that would make them Saul's great great aunt and uncle?


Somehow I missed taking pictures of half the people we visited. Perhaps someone else should be in charge of documentation.

Thanksgiving

Tomorrow, I will sit at a table with three other adults and one toddler and we will have enough food for a small army. At the same time, people in Zimbabwe are scrounging individual kernels of corn to keep themselves alive. By pure chance, I was lucky enough to be born into incredible wealth and comfort, and I am beyond grateful for that. It's the very least I can do to try and share some of my good fortune.

If you are as lucky as I am, please consider giving thanks by donating to Action Against Hunger (Charity Navigator).

As Obama likes to remind us, we are our brother's keeper.

Saul ,Saul, Sabrina, and Saul

Be one with the cookie

He's all "look, Mom, there's a girl in my bathtub!"

I think blue monkey is taking

Happy pictures

My flowers are blooming like crazy

And Saul adores his blue monkey

Many facets of Saul

Ready to play face


Model face


Making out with blue monkey face

Anticipating a graham cracker to avoid a car trip meltdown face

Kissy face

Cat burgler bonus