Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year and celebrated on Thursday with friends. The three of us woke up and watched the Thanksgiving Day Parade, which isn't as exciting as it seemed to be when we were little. Elliott didn't pay much attention to the majority of the parade, but did dance a little to some of the marching bands.

Lane made enough rabbit liver terrine to feed the French Foreign Legion, which we brought as a pre-turkey snack to Casey & Jeff's apartment. Casey and Jeff were so wonderful to host our bunch of unruly friends, children and one large dog. Elliott had lots of fun playing with Casey and Jeff's son Henley, who you may remember as the tiny infant at our wedding, and our friends' son Ben, who is four. I finally learned to play dominoes and won the round! We had a great meal with turkey, stuffing, bourbon sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, broccoli gratin, gravy and homemade rolls. We packed up some leftovers and were home in Marin by eight o'clock.

The rest of the weekend was mostly spent in jammies, staying warm and out of the rain. It rains so much harder up on the top of our hill than in the City and we love listening to it. Elliott likes to ask "What's that?" when it really starts dumping. He also likes to look at the moon and stars and the airplanes "fy-ying" in the sky. His vocabulary took off this week and he's starting to speak in little sentence fragments like "milk, please," "water go down" and "Ted funny." He's also starting to enjoy "reading" books to himself when mom and dad need a few more minutes of sleep. As always, we are completely amazed by what he can do and how much he is learning.