Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  We sure did!

This year we took a road trip to visit Bubbe in Atlanta.  Mom and Dad decided to make the drive part of the vacation so we took it over three days.  Mom, Dad, Hazel, Turner, and I all packed in our mini-van and hit the road.  We left last Thursday evening and spent the first night in a Holiday Inn Express in Longview, Texas.  Hazel and I liked the Holiday Inn because they had cookies.  Unfortunately for Mom and Dad, Hazel and I kept each other awake most of the night. 

The next day we stopped about halfway in Jackson, Mississippi, and went to an awesome Children's Museum.  I spent a while playing with a real car they have there, filling it with gas.  Hazel liked the pretend kitchen, boat playscape, and music room.  There was also a great park and playscape right next door.  Mom packed us a great lunch that we ate outside.  We spent more than two hours there, and we didn't want to leave.  But we knew that we still had a long way to go, so we reluctantly got back in the car and drove to Birmingham, Alabama, to stay with my great Aunt Susan and great Uncle Stuart.  They have grandchildren about my age, so they had lots of fun toys for us to play with.  Hazel liked feeding a toy pony and I pushed around a vacuum cleaner.  The next morning, we went with Aunt Susan and Uncle Stuart to the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, which was really fun. After a great morning there, we drove to Bubbe's house in Atlanta.

Staying at Bubbe's house was really fun.  We spent a lot of time with Aunt Laurie and Uncle Jonathan.  They are really nice.  They took us to the Georgia Aquarium.  Hazel really liked the penguins, and the penguins really liked me. Mom noticed that a whole bunch of them flocked to the window next to me. Then she realized why -- I was waving a piece of paper around, trying to show them a penguin picture I colored in the foyer. They looked like they wanted to eat it! I liked the whales and the jellyfish. Surprisingly, Turner really seemed to enjoy watching the fish. He was calm the whole time we were there and Mom really liked watching his eyes and head follow the fish around.

Earlier in the week, Hazel and I visited Bubbe at the dentist where she works, and I got my teeth cleaned.  The dentist said my teeth looked great.  He also looked at Hazel's teeth and said they looked good too.  She is still too little to get them cleaned but she seems excited about it happening one day. In the meantime, she has become really excited about a new book Bubbe gave us, Doctor De Soto, which is about a dentist who is a mouse.

We did a lot of other activities throughout the week. We walked a lot to the playground nearby where Dad went to school when he was little.  Bubbe took us to the Atlanta Zoo where we saw zebras, meerkats, ostriches, giraffes, elephants, monkeys, and panda bears.  Bubbe liked the panda bears the best. When we left, Hazel pointed out that the jaguars weren't out.

Dad made sure we visited his favorite restaurants several times - Krystals and the Varsity.  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, cookies, green beans, jello, carrott soufflet, and sweet potato casserole with marshmallows. Bubbe made us a great Shabbat dinner too.  She was pretty impressed with how we excited we were about Shabbat dinner. We also got to visit Great Grandma Millie, who was very happy to see us. 

Turner got a lot better at crawling this week.  He had plenty of practice, as Bubbe made sure to have plenty of toys for him to crawl around after. Turner also seems to be growing some more teeth. 

Sadly, after a week, it was time to head home.  We were sure sad to leave Atlanta and especially sad to leave Bubbe, but she'll be coming to visit us in Austin soon. 

Here are our photos from the week, as well as some from the McWane Science Center photos, courtesy of Aunt Susan.

1 comment:

Bubbe said...

It was a good week!
Love, Bubbe