T-day

We had a proper Thanksgiving over at E and K's house - there was a long table, lots of good food, and an obnoxious conversationalist. I know it's bad when the nicest thing I can think is "maybe they've just had a lot to drink." And with >1/3 of my brain taken up with child wrangling at any time, I didn't have the focus to shift conversation. So, I ate.

I made pies. The apple cranberry was awesome, the pumpkin was pretty good, the pear/almond tart was OK. It was nice to have a reason to actually bake. I still remember how to make crust.

Life just keeps ticking along. I can't quite believe it is the end of November already. I'm getting course materials set up and that is crazy. And taking longer than I thought it would, of course. But I officially have the first lecture done for my first class! woo!

I'm doing some lecture-prep and getting some papers cleaned up for submission and hanging with the babies. Turing just keeps doing new exciting things. He's starting to make jokes ("arlo eat dishwasher!") and play pretend. We spent some time yesterday cleaning up "milk" from his babydoll's shirt. Huxley is still a pretty easy baby, as far as babies go. He still doesn't like to cuddle - he'd rather sit and look at me - but has some awesome neck control and can get his arms to swing in the general direction of his toys.

Now, if I could just see some more of Trouble. We've both taken this long weekend off and it is strange to have both of us around the house at the same time. Turing doesn't quite know what to do with us both. Oops.