Maddy's First Thanksgiving

Today was Maddy's very first Thanksgiving. We had two main stops planned for the day. First we were going to visit Grandma Betty in the morning and then we were heading to McKittrick to spend the rest of Thanksgiving Day with daddy. But, as life would have it our sweet little Maddy came down with the stomach flu on Tuesday. I thought that she was almost over it on Wednesday when I put her to bed but then midnight rolled around and it was back with vengeance. The poor baby was miserable (I'll spare you the details). Due to this unexpected turn of events I had to cancel our morning date with Grandma Betty so that we could catch up on much needed sleep. And after lots of rest and many small bottles of Pedialite Maddy seemed to be back to her old self. So, at noon we headed out. First we went to Albertsons for more Pedialite and then we went to Grandma Betty's house.

We were the first to arrive. Boeboe (Grandma's doggie) always gets a bit excited when new people come around, but Maddy was different. He barked and barked at her. We think that he was a bit jealous because Grandma was paying lots of attention to Maddy. I took a picture of him barking at her. She doesn't seem fazed only a bit amused.

We had dinner with Grandma Betty, Reno, Kyle, Uncle Steve, Aunt Lori, and Boeboe. Maddy even got to eat off of Uncle Steve's plate! He let her pick up green beans and then drop them on his lap! He even let her move on to his mashed potatoes and stuffing. She had a couple of tastes of the stuffing and seemed to really like it.

Boeboe running around and barking at Maddy.

Here is Maddy enjoying some of Uncle Steve's Thanksgiving dinner... just look at her taking over his plate. What a great uncle!

Maddy was able to take a nap on our way to Daddy's fire station in McKittrick. When we arrived we met Engineer Teddy, Firefighter Fred, and Fred's fiancee Megan. Maddy and I had just come from a delicious Thanksgiving feast and we were greeted with another. There was a deep fried turkey, gravy, green bean casserole, potato salad, stuffing, apple crumble, and homemade cheesecake! Maddy had a great time pushing around the dining room chairs (on rollers) and talking to Teddy. Even though I brought numerous toys to entertain her with she was fascinated by Teddy. After dinner he was in one of the offices in the station on a computer and she would walk in and just babble away at him. Then he'd talk back and she would babble some more. It was really cute. I'm not sure how cute Teddy thought it was but he played along anyway.

By 7:45 PM Maddy was ready to hit the road.