Some Thanksgiving Highlights

Well, sort of. You won't find anything Norman Rockwellian here. These are just random pictures I got over the course of our weekend. I didn't really pull out our camera a ton. Instead I used my parent's archaic digital (okay, we bought it for them 2.5 years ago, but it is crap) for most of the time we were in South Carolina, but I haven't seen those pictures yet.

Mmmm, tasty Cracker Barrel half and half.

Practicing his kissing technique with daddy. This would apparently come in handy only days later, on a real girl...

Ethan pauses "Thomas the Train" long enough to take an important call...

Now, back to the show...

Ethan channels his inner Jedi at CVS..."May the roll of cheap metallic wrapping paper be with you, young Skywalker..."

The next three pictures were taken in North Carolina, when we visited my cousin Kim and her family. They live on a gazillion acres and Ethan was in toddler Utopia with all the ride-on toys. He scowled at us the whole way home, knowing we were bringing him back to the postage-stamp sized plot we call a yard.

Trying to counteract the damage done by Cracker Barrel biscuits and pancakes, Ethan enjoys an apple on the ride home.

Yes, I see it, too. All the bad parenting going on in these pictures. Eating at a restaurant which specializes in serving lard, the pacifier sticking out my 18-month old's mouth all. the. time. The DVD player in the car to stave off the inevitable "we've been in the car for 9 hours already!!" meltdown. The eating (albeit healthy stuff) in the carseat.

Ugh. Call Child Protective Services. I know. These are not things I'm necessarily proud of. But, on a 10 hour road trip, you do what you've got to do.