Nothing like a long weekend to get you all revved up for another week. And these next weeks are going to be lo-o-o-ng. Do you KNOW how long it is until Christmas? I have to be good for 4 weeks. Count ‘em – 4. To help with the counting we have a new picture that will count the days to Christmas. Every day in December I get to pull an ornament out of the pocket and hang it on the picture tree. We have another advent calendar treat tree too! It has all these little boxes that Mommy is going to put treats in. And every day I’ll get a treat.

We pulled out some Christmas decorations already too. We put out some little houses and hung the stockings. (St. Nick comes on December 6th so we need to be ready for him!) We’ll be doing more decorating this week. And hopefully it will get a little warmer so we can go outside – our lights outside don’t all light up and we need to fix them.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays! Ok, so this was my first big family holiday gathering (I was too little to go to Easter), but anywhere there are people to hold me and feed me treats, I’m for sure not going to miss another one. Great Aunt Marcia’s house was full of people and kids and food! Cool Whip is like heaven. Pumpkin pie? Glorious! Mashed potatos… eh, gimme more dessert.

My sister likes dessert too. She ate a cupcake and it looks like she was wearing most of it. And while everyone was distracted watching me clap and smile and look cute, Elise was sneaking bites off the dessert table. I should have had her sneak bits for me too. There was a chocolate cake and some gingerbread trifle that I wanted to try too. Mom? Get that recipe.