Thanksgiving with Grammy Sweets

This year for Thanksgiving, we decided to host Thanksgiving. Only Grammy Sweets was able to make the trip out. She arrived on Thanksgiving day and stayed until the next Tuesday.

Jonah is completely enamored of a series of books, The Amazing Machines Truckload of Fun by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker. He is very persistent when it comes to reading these books, and Grammy quickly got roped into some. His current favorite is Terrific Trains, but he will select one by having us go through each of the options, one by one until he agrees to one.

Grammy reads a book to Jonah not long after arriving for Thanksgiving.

We didn't get a picture of the full Thanksgiving spread, but there was plenty of food for all. Jonah had a plate with a little of everything, but didn't try much. It turns out that he wasn't feeling well, so his appetite wasn't very big.

"This stuff was fun to move around on my plate!"

We did some painting with Jonah, but Grammy got some good video to go along with some pictures we got, so that will be a post of its own. Here's a photo to hold you over.

"Painting is fun!"

There was plenty more story time, too.

"C'mon! Can't I enjoy a story in peace?"

We also made a trip to the Mitchell Domes. That will also have a post of its own, including some more video.

Before Grammy left, Christmas came early for Jonah. It worked out well. Grammy got to open the Christmas presents she got him with him!

Opening presents with Grammy.

Pretending to be a present.

Landing airplanes!

Another highlight of the weekend was going to Candy Cane Lane to see all the Christmas lights. When he sees Christmas lights that catch his eye, Jonah says "Lights! Lights!" to let us know. When we got there, we pulled Jonah out of his car seat, and he sat in Mommy's lap for the slow drive through the neighborhood. He was completely mesmerized by the lights, and afterwards he was in a VERY good mood.

It was a great visit!

More pictures from the weekend are posted to our family photo site.