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Turkey Day

We had a great Thanksgiving. Actually two. On Tuesday, we went to Chattanooga to Uncle Mike's and on Thursday we went to Grandma's. We got to see everyone over those few days and ate entirely too much food. Jack of course loved it. We even went out shopping and to dinner on black Friday for Grandma and Grandpa Gruber's Anniversary. He's so busy all the time that it doesn't bother him a bit to bounce around everywhere. And he gets lots of attention. He is more fun every day. Those cute facial expressions and sounds. He's still a monkey. Anything that he can climb on or through, he does. He never goes around anything, always over. He is also starting to hide things. He is like a little ferret these days. Whatever is missing, he probably took and hid. The remote....oli's toy box. Clothes hangers....toilet. Keys....in a box. He also found the stash of wrapped Christmas gifts in the guest room. After taking a few of the ribbons off I decided to close off the door to the guest room. So then he wondered off from our room the other day and I went to look for him, but could not find him. Finally, I decided he had to be in the guest room because that is the only place I hadn't looked. I found him. He had pushed the door open, went in, closed the door behind himself and was sitting in a big box of gifts playing with the ribbons. He is doing well with the tree. He attempts to pull at the ornaments but usually backs away when told no. I didn't trust him with the nativity scene so it is on top of the china cabinet this year. The first thing he wanted to do when I took it out of the box is go for baby Jesus.

Oh, I forgot. Jack went to his first birthday party. His friend, Porter, turned one. All the little babies were soo cute together. Jack was the only one walking, so he was in to everything. He even put on a show dancing for everyone. That is one of his favorite things to do lately.

The time has come for Jack to start daycare, our options are limited so it has to be done. But we did find a good one. It is close to the house and is a Christian-based school. They do a lot of teaching and not all playing. Although I am very sad, I think Jack will love it. He starts tomorrow so I will let you know how that goes.

Monkey Business

October 31, 2007

The more that Jack gets in to, the further I get behind on the blog. Jack's first Halloween was a great success. We decided that it was appropriate for Jack to be a monkey, since that is what he

acts like. He was the perfect little monkey. We had a couple of friends over and our friend Marshall dressed up as a scary old man and Uncle Todd as a hunchback man. Todd would help the kids up to the porch toward the scary music playing where Marshall sat with the talking candy bowl. Just as the children reached down for candy Marshall would scare them. We had some kids throwing bags of candy up in the air, some screaming, some running and some of them would not even approach the house without a lot of help from their parents. Jack loved it. He got scared when Marshall first put on the costume but after that just looked at the other kids like, "why are you screaming? It's just Marshall". Yeah, not scared of the music or the candy bowl which has a hand that comes down to scare you. We didn't really think that he was quite ready for actual trick-or-treating, we were wrong. He just took off down the sidewalk like all the other children. So we took him to some of the neighbors and he would walk right up and get his candy. He got to have his first dum-dum sucker. He had such a good time that he didn't want to go to bed. I finally had to put him down when he got too fussy, monkey suit and all.