Bath time

Jordan and Trevor took their first bath together. Jordan wasn't crazy about Trevor playing with his toys, but he was pretty good to his little brother, and as you can see, even helped rinse him off.

After the turkey

We had Thanksgiving dinner at our house with my dad, Carl's mom and Carl's sister. On Saturday, we celebrated with my mom, sister and Lucas. Here's the dining room after the table was almost cleared. I love the Christmas tree in this room. It makes me very, very happy :)

Dear Jordan and Trevor,

Today, you were a part of making history. You accompanied daddy and me to vote for the President of the United States. We voted for a man named Barack Obama. Like you, Barack Obama is biracial. Your mommy, like his, is white, and your daddy is black and Indian. Barack Obama’s father was black, born in a country called Kenya. Barack Obama is the first black man to be selected as a political party’s nominee for President. I know you are too young to understand the significance of that. Really, mommy and daddy are even too young to truly understand it. But not that long ago (in the lifetime of your gramma, nana and grandpas), it would not have been possible. People are sometimes scared of what is different and for a long time, in our country, many white people were scared of people with darker skin than them. For reasons I cannot explain, many white people even thought they were better than black people. So they made rules and laws to keep black people, and others, from doing certain things, like eating at the same restaurants as them, drinking from the same water fountain and even voting . It would not have been possible then for Barack Obama to run for President. But today, the world changed, and you were a part of making that happen.

Equally important is that a woman named Sarah Palin is running for Vice-President with the Republican nominee, John McCain. We didn’t vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin, but it is important for you to know, as boys, that you have privileges that have not always been allowed to women. Just like white people didn’t allow black people to do certain things, women have not been allowed to do the same things as men. As a matter of fact, black men were allowed to vote before women of any color were allowed to vote. Sarah Palin, like Barack Obama, is brave, and has been a part of changing the world for people like your mommy, your aunties, and your cousin Gracie, who we will get to meet soon.

It is so important that you remember that all people – of all colors, from all countries, whether they are men or women, gay or straight– are part of God’s creation and we should treat them all with the same love and respect that we want them to treat us. Mommy and Daddy voted for Barack Obama today, not because of the color of his skin, but because we believe in what he wants to do to make our country, and our world, a better place to live, for all of us. Because of people like him, and because of what you helped us do today, you can be anything you want to be.

Love,Mommy

** forgive me for the politics one more time, but this blog is a record for my children and while I've posted this on another blog I keep for my own rantings, I felt the need to put it here also.

Explorium

Jordan and I had some time by ourselves today. We went to the Explorium (formerly the Lexington Children's Museum). Dear Santa, please make the new camera an SLR. I could have much better pictures of the bubble blowing.

A new milestone, saturday morning breakfast and an evening stroll.

Trevor is officially sitting up on his own now. Every once in a while, he tumbles over, but he does a pretty good job of consistently balancing himself.

I would say that I can't believe my child is so vain (see posing below), but knowing his two parents, you would all just laugh.

Saturday morning breakfast at Cracker Barrell. Trevor sits in the restaurant high chairs now. It's a good thing, because he is way too heavy to haul him around in that handy-dandy carrier anymore and before he was sitting up, one of us would have to be holding him in our lap, trying to eat with one hand. Not that we venture into restaurants very often lately . . ...

Out for an evening walk. Pushing the double-stroller with a 30 pound 3 year and an almost 20 pound 6 month old in it (the stroller weighs at least 30!) is a workout!

Halloween

The boys' school had a fall festival on Thursday night, so we dressed up and headed over. This first picture is of Jordan and Cami, his "girlfriend," who has been at Bracktown with him since he started over two years ago. I know it's blurry of Jordan, but I couldn't get him to stand still, so this is the best picture I have with her in it.

Mr. Incredible getting ready to shoot a basket at one of the fall festival games.

Costume number 1 for Trevor. A frog. This is a hand-me-down from our friend Christian. Unfortunately, Trevor is really, really long and the legs were a little short, so as you will see below, we borrowed another costume for Halloween night.

Blurry again, I know, but I couldn't resist a picture of Jordan on Daddy's shoulders. He didn't really like walking. My camera hasn't been taking very good pictures lately. Dear Santa Claus, I need a newer, nicer one. Also, my camera battery died and I couldn't find the charger last night, so we don't have very many pictures.

And here's our little Dalmation :0) Thanks to the Scutchfields.

Our friend Thomas Wyatt went trick-or-treating with us. Isn't he the cutest little lion you have ever seen?