Thanksgiving 2012

We spent Thanksgiving in Kansas City with our families this year (just like every year).  Grayson and I flew back a couple days before Jason for one of my friends baby showers.  Let me tell you-flying with a 10 month old is very different than flying with a little baby.  Little man was B-U-S-Y.  Plus, it took me forever to check my bags, so we had a middle seat.  Ugh.  Horrible.  Luckily I had a very nice man next to me that had kids and was very helpful.  Grayson spit up twice, all over me....which he really barely ever does anymore, so that just figures.

We made it, and had a great week with family and friends!  Highlights: Brandy's baby shower (baby Davis is due in January!), KU game at the Sprint Center, park and lunches with my brothers and nephew, turkey (huge, my dad got a 20 pounder), Breaking Dawn (totally forgot the story since I read the book 4 years ago...good stuff), O'Dowds.  Grayson was a rockstar and braved the mall on Black Friday.

Another weird move by Grayson: two of the nights we were there, he decided to go to sleep for the night at 4:00pm.  What?!  The first time he did it, we had been hanging with Patrick at the park in Prairie Village, then walked up to the shops for lunch.  Lots of fresh air that day, so I think it made him extra sleepy.  When we got home, we went up to ClineWood so that some of Jason's co-workers could see him...so his nap time was delayed.  I figured I'd put him down at 4 and he could just go to bed around 8ish instead of 7.  Yea, well he didn't wake up until 5:45am.  So weird.  He's never done that before.  Next time he did it was on Black Friday when we were out shopping a lot that day....even still. He slept til almost 6am that night.  That was a little rough on me and Jason since we didn't get home til 4am after going out with friends.  2 hours of sleep just doesn't cut it :)  This week he's been sleeping in a bit later and waking up around 7:30-7:45.  I would LOVE if that stayed (instead of his normal 6-6:30 wakeup call)!

Pics from our trip:

Loves his daddy

Cracks me up-Patrick's side eye

I mean really...that face is just too much

Walking with his new walker-he gets going pretty quick!!

Puggy BFF's

Tried to take the iPhone away...didn't go over well

Love that my mom is cracking up at Patrick's breakdown

Much happier! :)

Getting his first Christmas tree!  Next year we'll go to an actual farm, but right now he has no clue what's going on...so Home Depot it is :)

Not sure about the tree shakers.  Kinda loud

And yes...he has no shoes on in the tree picture.  Don't judge-it was 78 degrees. 

OH!  Also-Grayson took 7 steps all by himself!  November 27, 2012!  Of course, we haven't seen any since, but he'll get there.  He will walk around anything as long as he has something to hold on to.  When he took his steps, we were playing the "chase" game and he got so excited with his walker he just let go and started walking towards me.  I about died.  So big!!

Swear I'll get some O'Bryan family pictures over Christmas.  Probably overload of them actually since alllll of the cousins will be there!  Gonna be crazy :)