December already!

Wow I cant believe tomorrow is Dec 1st! I actually just sat and wrapped all of Brandon's Christmas presents. (since that's pretty much all we have completely done) This past weekend flew by! Thursday was Thanksgiving...Brandon and I baked sugar cookies that morning. Well I did, but we traced his hand print in a turkey design and i cut the dough into little Brandon turkeys. And then i decorated them with frosting. I should have taken a picture but i didn't...
We went to Kenn's Mother's house for 1pm Thanksgiving. Everything was good except He hadn't eaten anything since 10am and we had to wait till 2pm to eat (b/c kenns sister took longer then expected with the turkey) so he sucked down his milk and then ended up throwing it all up at the table... it was lovely. He only ate rolls and applesauce there. Then we went to my parents house, where i had hand made (b/c no one sells them) Turkey nuggets. Well he ate like one of them, and then a couple bites of stuffing, and then rolls and apple sauce again. It was a very nutritious Thanksgiving. He did eat quite a bit of the chocolate pie that i made that night. We watched football and went home and put B to bed, and i put up the Christmas Tree.

So I purchased a little 3foot Fiber Optic Christmas tree for brandon. http://www.target.com/Fiber-Optic-Christmas-Tree-Green/dp/B000ROK69Y/sr=1-15/qid=1228097628/ref=sr_1_15/181-2920761-1621162?ie=UTF8&index=target&rh=k%3Achristmas%20tree&page=1
Well I opened the box and look at the base of the tree... huge sticker "warning a substance in this item has been confirmed in the state of California to cause cancer and or reproductive issues" or something to that effect. So i was like WTF... i look at the plug and it has a sticker with the same warning but "after touching this wire please wash your hands" so now i really freak out and then get pissed. I threw the tree back in the box and then today I went to target, asked to talk to a manager and told her what happened. She said they didn't know it caused cancer, and i said "um the big sticker on the tree says it does" so how can they NOT KNOW??? she said they'd pull it, but i have my doubts so I'm emailing Target today. Its a 3ft tree the only people that use them are children and elderly people, I'm really irate about the whole thing. So my mom is planning on buying brandon a small REAL tree so i may do that too.

Friday Brandon woke to see the Christmas tree and he loved it. Kenn spent the day decorating the outside of the house. I somehow misplaced my camera from my parents house to here on thanksgiving so when i find it i'll take a picture of the tree and the house. Oh we also did our Christmas card picture :) That should be in the mail this week. I forgot to mention we purchased brandon his own pet weds night, a beta fish :) Kenn had a tank on his desk at work and his beta died a month or so ago and he came up with the idea of bringing it home for B. So Kenn set the tank up and I took brandon to pick the fish out. He picked a blue fish with red tips. He dropped the bag on the way to the register... its still alive so it must mean it passed the test. But every morning that's the first thing he says and before he goes to bed he always says goodnight to the fish. i think he really likes him.
Friday Night we met my parents up at Annapolis Mall to eat at McCormick & Schmidt's for my birthday dinner. It was surprisingly empty. They printed the menu's with "Happy Birthday Heather" which was sweet. We also got to meet James's new G/f formally. But i already forgot her name haha. She's been hanging around for years though and seems to be very nice. Oh man that means i need another gift for christmas...damn. Dinner was very yummy and brandon made it through dinner without anyone leaving the table to take him outside to play so thats a good dinner. Oh and we all got different desserts there so i got to sample a couple of yummy things, brandon and I had pecan pie for the first time and we both liked it. Then my parents came over and we played the Harry potter scene it and Kenn won (which is amazing b/c he's never read the books) My dad said thats how you know the game sucks :)

Sat the 3 of us went to my parents house to finish painting... we did the ceiling this time. Brandon didn't want to take a nap, so he ended up only sleeping for about an hour before my mom and I took him to see Playhouse Disney Live at the Lyric. So for the first half he was very sleepy, he watched it and ate popcorn but wasn't participating as we'd hoped. during intermission he finished his juice box and we purchased a Handy Manny Hard hat, and then the sugar kicked in. He was very very excited for the 2nd half. Too bad that was the shorter of the two. But he was pointing out mickey and saying "mouse" and pointed out winnie the pooh and said "pooh" and clapped and danced and had a very good time. He was wired the whole way home in the car. he kept playing with his new hat and saying "mommy, yes brandon, mommy, yes, mommy, yes, mommy, YES, MOMMY HAT!" He was VERY sugar'd up. My mother said we need to give him the juice box BEFORE hand next time. I also need to post a picture of him in his hat.
Sat Night Kenn and I watched Wall-E, it was very cute! I said "aww" prob 10x in the movie.

Today Is my 27th birthday, and also the 2nd Birthday of my good friend Lisa's daughter Emma! So today Brandon and I went to her party, where he ate almost 2 pieces of pizza whole! (meaning he held the slice without it being cut up) he likes to hold them upside down i learned. We also surprised by Dora making an unexpected appearance! Emma was pretty darn surprised herself. Both of them were scared to go near her, luckily for brandon it wasn't his birthday so he was farther away. Although i did tell him not to expect Diego at his party, i do not have the same pull as Lisa does in Nick Jr World.

*I am going get political for one second b/c i've been very good so those of you who are very conservative may want to skip this part*. I did get very annoyed at 1 point in the party b/c i was in the "toy room" with brandon alone and there were some adults in there talking politics and expensive gas etc etc, and somehow the election came up and they started spouting completely ridiculous things... like "Obama doesn't put his hand on his heart for the pledge, Obama is a Muslim and a terrorist, I cant believe people say that this is the first time they are proud to be an American" etc etc. 1st off, totally unnecessary to be at a 2 year olds birthday party. I took brandon immediately out of the room at this point. 2nd ok seriously he's a terrorist? Do you really think that he just conned 1/2 the nation and the whole government FBI etc??? sorry it just irritates me that people are still spouting hateful lies. And last part of my political rant. I *am* one of those people that now can say for the first time their adult life that "I am proud to be an American". Because before I did not boast that, its sad but true. I was honestly thinking, 2009 will be the first presidential inauguration i've ever watched, and the first 4th of july (as an adult) I will wear red, white and blue and wave a flag. Ok i'll get off the soapbox.

Tomorrow night I'll be goign out with my best friends to The Melting Pot for dinner, and then work's takign me out for Sushi this week also :) mmmmmmmmmmm
Oh and i got a beautiful bracelet from Kenn and Brandon that had brandons name and birthdate on it, a awesome Jacket from my parents and a brand spanking new Coach purse from Aunt Gail :) But one of my favorite things is the card from my godson connor sent all the way from Alabama!
I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving, we have more to be thankful this year then ever before!