Thursday morning, Margot woke up around 6:30, that's after sleeping over 10 hours straight...in her own bed....in her own room...BY HERSELF!!  Do you realize, this hasn't happened in oh, I don't know, 10 months at least!  And did I mention she didn't wake up during the night AT ALL?!  It must have been the Turkey fairy sprinkling some of his sleeping dust on her, or something.  Do you know how nice it is to get 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep?  Well of course you do!  You don't have kids, or they're already grown and out of the house, or you've trained them or drugged them to go to sleep!  Our child just loves us sooo much, she wants to see us at all hours of the night.  I mean, who can blame her, right?  I think we're pretty cool.

Oh, so back to Thanksgiving.  We got up, did our usual; had breakfast, watched Baby Signing Time ("BST") and a couple episodes of Pingu, which, if you have never heard of, is a Swiss stop-motion claymated television series.  We came across it on Netflix one day, and Margot absolutely loves it.  So much so that she walks up to us with multiple remote controls in her hand and says "Peen" which is Pingu in Margoteese.  If I say, oh you want  BST (knowing darn good and well she doesn't) and put that on and then set the remotes down, she'll promptly pick them back up and hand then to me and say "Peen" until I turn it on for her. 

While she was watching her shows, I started on the 3 pies, well technically one cheesecake and two pies, for later in the day.  After I got the pumpkin cheesecake in the oven I tortured Margot and eventually Robbie with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  It's not Thanksgiving without the parade yo!  Nap time for the kid and pecan pie and key lime pie making time for me. 

All the pies are done, kid is awake, parents are showered and somewhat presentable, and off to my parents house we went.  From there it went like this.  Hung out in kitchen and chatted, started prepping green bean casserole, Margot appears hungry, gave her a piece of baby corn (she seemed to like it), started cooking green beans for said casserole, gave Margot a slice of bread, she eats a couple of bites and starts screaming, switch off, Robbie continues cooking while I try to console a very unhappy child, diaper change, very, VERY unhappy child now, turn on Pingu, ahhh, that calms her down some, eats more of her bread and water and seems to be better, back to the kitchen to finish helping get everything prepared, time to eat, pie time, very sleepy child, home by 6:45, Margot asleep by 7, I'm asleep by 9:45.

Although she had a minor meltdown, I think Margot enjoyed her second Thanksgiving (first one actually getting to eat some of the yummy food).  Now it's time to start preparing her for the Christmas Holiday.  This morning it was by watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and by taking her out shopping!  Ho, ho, ho!