Happy Thanksgiving

We had an amazing Thanksgiving dinner at Zach and Emily's place on Thursday. They have a 3 week old baby, Henry...somehow they prepared a turkey and all of the fixings!! It was our last Thanksgiving with the DG family and it was great! Thanks Zach and Emily!

Robin and Anderson (9 1/2 months); Joy and Scarlett (3 months); Emily and Henry (3 weeks)

"Mommy...put me down! I need to go play and explore."

The Talley Family on Anderson's first Thanksgiving!!

Daddy and Anderson

Welcome Back Daddy

Just wanted to keep you updated on Anderson's poo problems. He definitely still has the loose stool and we have a doctor appointment tomorrow. Luckily, he is still drinking plenty of fluids...hopefully we're winning the dehydration battle.

Brad came back late last night and was ready to help me this morning with Anderson. Anderson welcomed daddy back by pooping right on his lap not once, not twice, but three different times today. I'm pretty used to dealing with bodily fluids because of my job and you would think Brad is too because of his job...however, you should have heard him scream when it happened. I had to laugh a little!!

Cleaning house...

It's been an interesting weekend. On Friday, Anderson started a bad case of serious butt pee (aka loose stool). Along with the loose stool came a horrible diaper rash. Poor guy has been miserable all weekend! At first, I was wiping him with wipes and just trying to be gentle...I quickly realized that this was making it worse. So...I moved to wiping him with a warm wash cloth. That worked ok till I used up every wash cloth in the entire house. So...I moved to running his little butt under water. However, it was obvious after the first try at this that I was not getting all of the poop off of him. So we moved to baths and hair drying the area after the bath. I think he's had more baths in the last three days than the previous nine months of his life. In addition to a bath about every 2 hours, I've been letting "hang free" when possible.

Of course, all of this has happened while Brad is away in Lamar doing some moonlighting...big surprise there. To say the least, I'm a little tired! Fortunately, I have the cutest and most lovable baby! He constantly makes me laugh and smile. How could you not smile...he finds so much joy from the simplest things. Below is where I found him earlier today...what a helper!! I'm happy to report that he didn't pee all over anything while in there...just all over the kitchen floor a few minutes later! Enjoy!!

Halloween Fun

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween. We had fun with Anderson!! He was the cutest giraffe (thanks Grandma Shorty for the the costume)! We took him around the block and then to a couple of friend's houses. Below are some pictures and videos of Anderson trick or treating on Halloween.

Carving Pumpkins

We (me, Grandma Shorty, and Grandpa Mark) carved some pumpkins in the afternoon on Halloween. Why so late...you ask. Oh, because every year the squirrels go crazy with the pumpkins and stock up for the winter. They completely hollow them out...it's gross. So...this year after feeding the squirrels two pumpkins already we decided not to carve any till Halloween so that we could put them out right before the trick or treater's came to collect some candy. They turned out pretty good! Anderson had a good time touching (and eating some seeds).