First Thanksgiving

Mom prepared a really great meal and we are bad because at 8:00am we called to see if there was the option of coffee and pecan pie for breakfast. After pleading she caved so off we went. Akins was not real keen on the pecan pie so he ended up with some toast. I on the other hand got seconds (mine and his)score! Then we just hung out until the meal was ready and Akins enjoyed gobbling (no pun intended) down his first drumstick which he referred to as the "big feet". Navigating through the bones has become a bit of an art and a special part of the fun when eating chicken or any other poultry. All of it is chicken after all right?! Oh, wait everything is chicken, including me, mom, the dogs, his school and Lorea - duh!

It was fun to watch him make his way through that big leg. We managed to get him to try a lot of different things. Lorea and I both like the whole sweet and salty combo so she managed to get him to try turkey and sweet potato, turkey and cherry salad, turkey and cranberries, you get the picture. The game however got him to try everything and he actually like some of them. After dinner we had pumpkin pie, he liked it even the big crust, but not the small crust. He was okay with it until he saw it then it was "Mommy what's it" pointing to the bottom crush. I told him crust, he peeled the bottom off and ate the rest, I told him the big crush and small crush were the same thng and he said "huh un". I can never figure him out, usually he would like the part that is softer, this time it was the crunchy part. As soon as the feast was over he was back to asking for Sushi which is on the agenda for tomorrow. Great!

Turkey Feet!