Giving Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Name Game

Patrick has decided that this baby is a girl (the big ultrasound isn't until December 7th). Today we were quizzing him on what we thought we should name the baby. His choices? Witch, followed by Butteryfly and Baby Mama. Um.....okay.....

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

sThis year has been a lot of fun because Patrick understands things like birthdays, parties and holidays. So I've been anxious to intriduce Christmas to him but totally unsure of how to do it. Any suggestions? I'm not sure a visit to Santa is the right place to start :)

But since I mentioned Santa, I have been having fun shopping for Patrick for Christmas. Since he can't read yet I'll let you all in on what he is getting!

Fisher Price Digital Camera


Play-Doh Activity Center


Cool construction jammies


Mack truck playset from Cars


And for his stocking I found a bunch of cute stuff in the $1 Spot at Target and also got him a Curious George DVD


And some diecast cars from Cars (which are a pain to find, I've been to every local Target looking for these!)

Obsessive Compulsive

Over the last few weeks I've started to notice a few things about Patrick. He likes order. When given a small bag of Halloween Skittles, he poured it out on the table and sorted them by color before eating. When he colors in coloring books he tries to stay within the lines (even though no one has ever told him to). It makes me immensly pleased. Tom says I am sick and need to be stopped. I can't help it, it's a sickness!

Freedom

Happy election day! (well, happier for some than others! ;)

It amazes me how much the pendulum swings every so often. It will be interesting to see how everything works out in the senate. Democracy can be exciting! Even Patrick got into the spirit today, proudly wearing my "I voted" sticker.

And speaking of democracy, if you haven't yet seen it, I highly recommend watching Hacking Democracy on HBO. It's a documentary about the electronic voting process and some serious flaws in the system that allow for hacking and vote manipulation. Very scary, no matter which way you vote. If you don't have HBO we have it on Tivo, come on over and watch :)