We took the kids to Agnes’ cousin’s place for Thanksgiving this year. They live in Irvine, a few miles from Agnes’ parents and my parents and they invited Agnes’ whole family to dinner. It was while visiting Agnes’ cousin over Labor Day that we first dressed the girls in something other than a onesie, and we thought it would be nice to dress them up again. This time, we chose matching dresses. Eleanor is on the left. Miranda is on the right. It’s a good thing we decided to put these dresses on. They have matching underwear and we found that the underwear only barely fits their thighs. In another month, I don’t know if they’ll still be able to wear these dresses.
We arrived early, just after three, and fed the girls. Today is the first day we tried six ounce bottles and they both finished. We moved to six ounce bottles because recently they’ve been going a little longer between feedings and we find that we’re often down to four bottles in a day. We thought they could use a little extra per feeding.
We then put them in a spare bedroom on top of some waterproof sheets to sleep. They slept a bit, but not as soundly as they usually do at home. I don’t know if it was because it was a little more noisy, or that the carpeted floor was harder than their crib mattresses, but they woke several times.
Thanksgiving dinner itself was great. We had a twenty pound turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, sticky rice, asparagus, fried shrimp wontons, and two kinds of pie (pumpkin and cherry). Here you can see Keith carving the turkey with Jasmine looking on. Jean is preparing the potatoes. Their son, Chris, was off playing the piano. In total, there were fifteen of us, and we were quite impressed with how well Jean and Keith hosted the dinner.
Overall, the girls behaved well all day. They fell asleep right away once we got back in the car, and now they’re still sound asleep in their cribs. Next year, they’ll actually get to try some of the turkey.