Happy Thanksgiving

Bailey tried to grab Chalice's pumpkin pecan cheesecake (that I made, yum!!) when she wasn't looking. Haha, she was on a mission. Of course she couldn't have any. Her dinner consisted of mashed sweet and white potatoes.
I have pictures of myself on this same little bench that my grandfather built many years ago. Mom uses it now for teddy bears during Christmas but soon we'll get a picture of Bailey on it. I'm sure she'll love to play on it in the years to come. She looks so big on it though!

I love this picture. She just leaned into me and smiled. It was taken Thanksgiving day. We have a lot to be thankful for! We went to my parent's house and had an amazing time just relaxing and eating too much food. Chalice and Neil were there and they loved hanging out with Bailey. Bailey liked all the entertainment too. She's doing so much right now. She can play alone for like half an hour! She is crawling all over the place and is very close to pulling up. She can get up on her knees. I jokingly told mom to push her down any time she saw her trying to pull up. I'm so not ready for it! She's also starting to understand "no." She has bitten me a couple times and I always say no. This weekend she did it and I gave her a stern no and her little bottom lip began to quiver. She's getting it! She doesn't always listen but she's trying.
In other news, this deployment is about 25% done! That's great news to us all. Only about 9 months more to go. We've gotten some news that they're already scheduled for an October 2011 deployment but hopefully Mike will be able to get out of this unit before it happens. Ahh, such is army life. We miss him very much and can't wait to see him for some much needed R&R in March!