baby showers and new booties

yesterday we went to Cheyene and Alex's baby shower. they are due around thanksgiving and Cheyene looks beautifully, glowingly expectant! they had lots of yummy food and thomas had lots of fun playing in the ice chest with his friend sara. look at them gettin busy in there! i think she just nudged him out with her head :)


william got this CUTE pic as they walked with sara's dad down the hallway. (sorry vijay - i had to cut you out of the picture when i cropped it and saw how cute it was with just the 2 of them! ha ha :)



--------------winter clothes--------------------
i got to make a trip up to H&M clothing store in walnut creek on Friday. picked up some clothes for me as well as some of the coolest booties for thomas :). just in time for cold weather!

that is dad's doing by the way: sweatshirt, onesie, booties, no pants. william comes up with some funny combinations of winter layering for thomas. below - hey look at my cool new slippers! and yes, he still drinks his milk out of a bottle. i'll probably let that go until the end of the year and then start figuring out a way to wean him off the bottle.



--------------bad mommy!!--------------------

early last week, it was dinner time and i hadn't put anything together for thomas yet. he was hungry and opened the cabinet and starting pointed to the cereal boxes. he got a little whiny and cried a little. but i told him to please wait and that dinner was coming soon. he walked away and starting looking at his toys.
i was zoning out as i cooked and realized suddenly that thomas was awfully quiet. i turned around and didn't see him anywhere in the room. i walked up to the island and peered over. thomas was on the ground behind the island. it was sooooo SOOO sad - he was sitting in this little froggy position, feet together, munching on some stale cereal he had found. i felt like such a bad mommy for starving him! heartbreaking! i had left the camera in the kitchen and managed to catch the pure pathetic-ness of his posture and situation... look at the dejected bent in his neck. like he realizes that he's getting to the last one.


it was so sad for me to see this little creature sitting so quietly and intently eating the few little o's he had found. actually, sad doesn't quite describe what i was feeling. but it was this funny aching feeling in my heart. i went over, hugged him, and told him i was sorry for making him wait. as he reached up and hugged me back, it almost felt like he was saying "it's ok mommy." silly, i know...