Thankful for Much

What a wonderful week-long, restful & productive Thanksgiving break. We loved the time to play, organize closets...the garage, move Landon's office upstairs, donate lots of clothes to Goodwill, and CLEANED!! I even squeezed in a fun girl's night out.
Omi and Papa came down to join my whole family for a Thanksgiving feast at our house. We started off Thanksgiving morning by rooting for Landon (at home) on his 13 mile "Turkey Trot" in downtown Atlanta. He's been training for months with our neighbor Nate across the street. This was Landon's first 1/2 marathon run, and we were all so proud of him. Ambrea and I decorated our mailboxes and welcomed our men back into the neighborhood complete with a finish line banner. Omi and Papa helped with the cooking Thursday morning and prepared the turkey, while the chef of the house was occupied running. Aren't I the spoiled hostess?







Miller couldn't wait to see "coo coo Clay"...don't ask me how he has contorted uncle into "coo coo"!He loved waiting in great anticipation for his arrival. Clay loved hearing all of Miller's new words, numbers, and colors. He's surely changed a lot since we last saw Uncle Clay.


This year we all contributed to the feast and had a pot-luck dinner. It was nice to have traditional dishes from both families represented on our table. The Fokens sweet potato and banana dish was a favorite. And, we asked for Grandmama's brocolli salad to make our feast complete.
After dessert, our 26 some odd pound turkey entertained us all with lots of running and dancing to burn off the extra calories.



Miller had his own rendition of the "Turkey Trot Trot" in mind to tickle our fancies!


Visit Miller's 20 month album for more Thanksgiving pictures.

Pre- Thanksgiving Bash

Miller and I had the pleasure of attending a playdate at the Cibula cottage on Monday morning. Jack invited some fun playmates over for a pizza lunch complete with Sesame Street plates. Miller loved dining on Elmo's face:) Patterson, Sophia, Caroline & Thomas, Meg & Kate, and Ansley were all in attendance to share in all the Pre-Thanksgiving fun. Miller was in awe of Jack's playroom and loved playing with Jack's magnetic board...hmmm taking mental notes for Christmas. And, what better playroom to do a toy experiment!! Thanks P & J for allowing us such a fun morning out. This stay at home all day thing isn't so bad when you have places to go & friends to see.

Caroline and Miller -good buds from Miss Karen's house

Sophia- anxiously awaiting her baby sister Alexandra to be born any day now

Jack-the host!

Baby Thomas slept through all the noise

Patterson and Miller couldn't get enough of the magnet board

Check out Kate and Meg in matching big sister, little sister outfits...of course!!

A Little Early...

We decked the halls this weekend...a little early this year. One of my pet peeves is stores who decorate for Christmas in October. I'm all for celebrating each holiday in due time. I just love how Nordstom takes the time to decorate their stores for Thanksgiving. That being said, we did participate in one of my pet peeves this weekend, but it was all for a good cause...sanity. One of the perks of my job, besides working half the day, is to have an entire week off for Thanksgiving. This extra time in the morning will allow me to get a jump start on things. We also have both of our families coming over for Thanksgiving. So, things are pretty crazy around here now. We had a great time as a family this weekend, trimming the tree, stairs and mantle. The outside accoutrement can wait until Dec. 1.
Miller was pretty excited about the "tree" and "monoments" as you can see in the pictures. And, take notice that the bottom of the tree is bare so toddler hands won't break the glass!!

Ode to the Longall

I am realizing more and more that our growing toddler of a boy is nearing his final days of wearing adorable longalls!! We're going to go all out with a bang these next few months. I'm slowly weaning myself off of monograms and baby boy cutey items. They're on the endangered apparrel list for our growing boy. It will be rough, but somehow potty training and snap crotches don't go well together.
But for now I give you....cuteness with a snap crotch!

Falling Leaves

"Pees & Ti Too" are two magic words that are slowly finding their way into Miller's growing vocabulary. We practice at meal time, play time, diaper changing time, bath time, and snack time. It's too precious when I hand Miller his sippy cup and he says "ti too"..thank you. What a way to melt this momma's heart and make me want to give him the world!And, what better month than November for this little man to learn about thankfulness?
In other vocabulary news...Miller spoke his first sentence last week. It evolves something like this. "Biiiiiig Bus"..."I see the biiiig bus".....wheel. " "See the wheel?"....all thrown in together! The whole time we're driving, he relentlessly comments on all the "trains", "tractors", "tow trucks","firetrucks", "planes", "cars", "bool-buses", "helicopters" and wheels,"big wheels". Isn't that a boy for ya? I was so surprised when he added the "I see the" to form his first sentence. Grandmama taught Miller, green light means go, go, go.... to which Miller translates "ight, go, go, go!" at every intersection. As you can see our car rides are never quiet anymore, but I wouldn't have it ANY other way.
We can't even drive by Publix without Miller proclaiming "cookie" "cookie". Tears follow when he realizes we're not headed in that direction. Sometimes, I purposely re-route to avoid the confrontation. In the car the other day Landon and I were JUST talking about the grocery list, what we were going to purchase, our menu etc. and Miller piped in "cookie?" He's really picking up on what we're talking about. I guess we need to keep our Christmas conversations private or just spell out each word as a secret.
Our little sponge is also repeating alot of the words that we say. Conversation lulls like hmmm...and o.k. get echoed back. We can't even sneeze without the comment of "ahh choo". His framework of language is evolving and it's thrilling to observe.

We enjoyed a big time in the backyard this afternoon playing in all the falling leaves. Miller enjoyed stomping, crunching and running through all the piles of leaves that have collected under our Bradford Pear tree. Another highlight was playing with Miller's new red car that we discovered on our back patio. We inherited this fun new edition from our neighbor friends. I think a plastic playscape slide & swing is on its way as well!

Saturday of Birthdays

We celebrated Whit's 2nd birthday & Hudson's 4th birthday today at J.J. Biello Park. These brothers were born on the same week, 2 years apart, so what better way to celebrate than with a dual Mickey Mouse party? Miller ran around every inch of the playscape with some pals. This park is our absolute fave. He couldn't get enough of the slide. Miller squealed all down the slide saying "dadda" as he scooted in Landon's direction & WOW did it echo everywhere. What a gorgeous fall day to be at the park. After a lunch of "seesa" and "fishy cackers", it was off to ride on the "choo choo"! I'm not sure who had more fun...the adults or the kids.




Saturday evening, we celebrated another very special birthday. We headed over the river and through the woods to Grandmama and Poppy's house. It was "ma ma ma's" special day and we couldn't let her day pass us by without a cake & ice cream celebration. Miller was our after dessert entertainment. He loved playing with Grandmama's "si lo phone" and mallet. Miller even danced and jumped when he knew all eyes were watching him...such a ham! Landon showed our budding muscician how to chime out Happy Birthday. It was a great Saturday of party, party with our family.

Celebrating the Morrow Twins

Baby Logan and Will were celebrated on Saturday morning with a baby shower in honor of Terra. Mom and I headed to Birmingham early Saturday morning for Terra's baby shower. We got there early to help Melissa and Anna with the final preparations for the shower. It was SO fun to prepare a shower for twin boys!! We decorated for the shower in chocolate browns, blues and greens..the color of the twin's nursery. Check out the train letters spelling Logan and Will.



It was a fantastic reunion of sorority sisters and friends. We hugged, then ate, chatted and really enjoyed present time. Terra got a lot of cutey baby boy things to add to her nursery. It was so much fun to share in all the joy of all things baby boy. There's just nothing like having all your good friends around to share in such a meaningful event. There were lots of oohs and ahhs over Terra's gifts. She opened sweet monogrammed burp clothes, onesies, books, and lots of practical things too. She'll definitely need a lot with two on the way! On a side note... doesn't Terra look fantastic? What a glowing mommy to be with a little basketball belly.
Check out these cutey baby pacifier mints. Aren't they too cute?



God's been so good to the Morrows, with double blessings and two bundles of joy growing and thriving each day. I just can't wait to hold these boys in just a few months!