Thank you, Uncle Billy!

Chase's Uncle Billy kept watch over Chase this weekend not only when we were out, but also when we were around but doing other things. Unfortunately, Chase has decided that (especially when he's tired) he only wants Mommy or Daddy. So he was kind of a crank. So thanks to Uncle Billy for not only putting up with the cranky baby, but continuing to smile and play with him until he laughed!

In honor of Uncle Billy, here are some pictures of him and Chase from two weeks ago when they were wearing matching outfits and BOTH laughing.

Chase the Cutie

This is a pretty random post of cute pictures I took this past Friday morning around 6:30am when it was just Chase and I awake in the house. First, I let him play with all the fun toys that Grammy & Grampy have while I picked out his clothes.

Chase LOVES the toys at Grammy & Grampy's house

 One of my colleagues made this BEAUTIFUL quilt for us. It's truly stunning and something that we will not only treasure, but use all of the time. I wanted to thank her for the very sweet gift so we did a little photo shoot of Chase on the quilt.

 He especially loves the black and white squres--I'm not sure whether he can tell if they are flat or 3-D yet, but he spends a lot of time reaching for them, so I'm guessing that he thinks they are 3D.

Look for this quilt in a lot of our posts to come!

Our Thanksgiving

We had a lot to be thankful for this year especially, you guessed it, our little Chase. His adorable smiling face when I reach into his crib to get him out (even at 11pm, 1:30pm, 3am, 5:30am) grounds me to what's important. I'm so appreciative of all of the blessings we've received this year and all of the people who make these blessings possible. We really could not do it without you.

The best thing about Thanksgiving is that you get to share it with familiy. This year we were excited to celebrate Thanksgiving at the new house in Concord with Grammy, Grampy, Uncle Geoff, Aunt Carrie, Amelia, Owen, Aunt Sandra, and Carrie & Geoff's friends Mary, Kevin, and their twin boys, Calvin and Dennis. Needless to say, with five kids under 4 and a dog it was not quiet, but boy did we have fun!

Daddy made sure his Fantasy Football team was updated and watched his points accumulate during the Thanksgiving Day games. Hopefully he won his matchup this week! Watching football on Thanksgiving is definitely a Lamont family tradition.

The dining room table had 13 place-settings + a highchair!

Helen and the kids made place markers for everyone.

Pilgrim salt-n-pepper shakers (from Publix!)

Grampy reading to Amelia & Calvin (or Dennis. They are very identical).

Geoff and Owen.

Aunt Sandra and Amelia play with Chase.

Chase enjoyed his Thanksgiving "bird"

...and played with the big boys, Owen

and Calvin/Dennis

This is what dinner looked like. Chase had some sweet potatoes, oatmeal, and pears for dessert. In the spirit of the holiday, he shared his food with his polar bear who now has orange spots.

Look how calm, cool, and collected we look with three kids! Luckily the flash of the camera shutter was fast and captured a nearly-chaos-free moment.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Gobble Gobble