Thanksgiving and other ramblings

This past weekend was nice.  It started out on Wednesday afternoon, at which time we were sent home pleasantly early from work for the holiday.  So that meant I had plenty of time to get in a good workout at the gym, to preemptively counteract the effects of my upcoming foodings... I got done at the gym, then went to get Preston from Cassandra.  After that, he said he wanted to go meet "Oweeen," so I obliged :).  Guess what?  Owen is still really stinkin' cute!  Preston was very curious and very sweet to the little guy, which was good to see, since a.) this is really the first newborn Preston's ever been around, and b.) he's going to need to get used to it by March!  After our visit to Froedtert, we came home and made dinner.  Skip was a bit of a bear to wake up that evening, and once he actually woke up, he got a call from Meda-Care asking if he'd want to take a quick nurse call.  So off he went, but that kind of thing is totally fine since he makes some pretty darn good $$ when he gets called in like that.

Thursday morning I got up and went to the gym again, then left with absolute jello legs from all the lunges and squats we did.  That class was TOUGH!  Skip and Preston went down to Racine while I finished getting ready, then I met them down at the Yacht Club.  Charlie and Mary sort of oversee the serving of Tom & Jerry's every Thanksgiving morning, and we've made it a tradition to go down and visit the RYC.  Too bad I couldn't partake in the late-morning buzz that I've come to enjoy each year!  Oh well.  We hung out at Mannings for the rest of the afternoon, then had a really nice dinner.  After some relaxing, Skip came home and rested before work, while Preston and I went down to Crystal Lake.  An hour-and-a-half and a wrong-turn-in-Wilmot-that-landed-me-in-Twin-Lakes-so-I-had-to-backtrack later, we got to my mom and dad's.

Friday morning Preston stayed at the house and hung out with Papa, while I went out shopping with Sarah and her little blonde clones.  We managed to go to Kohl's, Target and Joseph's all without feeling the need to murder anyone on Black Friday.  Preston took a good nap at while I vegged for the rest of the day, then we went to Harrison's for Megan's 2nd birthday party.  It was very fun to see Megan, Preston and Sarah and Andy's niece Allie (November, October, and September-born, respectively) all playing so well together!  We had a little scare when Preston and Elizabeth took a bit of a tumble together down the stairs... but they were okay, so it was not the disaster it could have been! 

I ran some more errands on Saturday with Mom and Preston before coming home, then basically had a leisurely rest of the weekend.  Got my Christmas lights up, and Skip and Charlie got our new windows installed!


Now, some recent musings regarding Preston:

He LOVES the movie "Cars."  Especially Mater.  He'll go straight to the TV and say Cars? Mater? Watch?

He's obsessed with wearing his green shamrock hat these days.  He has to even wear it to bed.  Good thing he looks darn cute in it!  He will freak if you take it away!

The boy has about a 300 single-word vocabulary.  He doesn't string them together too often, but there's never any doubt to what he's saying, because he can say so many things!

He's so sweet at night time, and always says "Good night, Mommy" and "I yooou" (i.e. I love you) before he goes to bed.  It absolutely melts my heart.