First Haircut!

Since he inherited my five strands of hair, keeping Jackson's hair trimmed hasn't been much of an issue.  He sits in his chair and lets me trim up the back and ears every six weeks or so.  His hair has a good bit of curl so it isn't like I have to do a good job.  By mid November it was starting to look a little mullety though, so it was time for his First Haircut. 

 These were the before shots.  Not that they are very different from the after shots.  You should have seen the looks on the three ladies' faces when I said "first haircut".  You could practically hear the mental NOT IT unanimously uttered by each one.

Not surprisingly, Jackson was more interested in watching the man next to him get his hair cut than anything else.  He was perfect!  The lady said that in 10 years of hair cuts he was by far the best "First Cut" she had ever done.  He even smiled when she used the hair dryer on him :)   
 

 Big boy after his hair cut.  Dad made it just in time for the reveal.  I must say that Great Clips did a wonderful job.  They even put his little locks in a special envelope with the date on it for us to put in his baby book! 

Thanksgiving 2012

 

 Since our families live so far apart that there is no way to see everyone for all holidays, before we got married Matt and I agreed to alternate holidays.  This year he had Thanksgiving and I have Christmas.  For Thanksgiving we packed up Jackson and Gracedog and headed up to Virginia.  I requested snow, but it wasn't even cold enough for a jacket, let alone snow. 

Matt's grandparents came down from Alexandria and spent the night.  Grandpa was worried about Jackson and the stairs but he shouldn't have been because Grammy got a gate to keep him safe.  It also kept Gracedog from trying to go down- she can't do the stairs anymore and has to get an airlift from Matt. 

Check out my paper turkey.  It was better than Matt's.  They must not teach that in engineering school.

 I love making cornbread dressing.  This year I tried a new recipe and made it in the crock pot.  It needs a little tweaking, but it was pretty good.  Definitely using that one again. 

Maybe next year we will invest in turkey prongs instead of bending two forks into oblivion.

Lane in action

Playing with Grammy under the table

 Although he was a sick little guy for most of this trip, we got him to take a picture in his new bandana bib.  Grammy made matching for all three.  Jackson and Lane liked theirs... not so sure about Gracedog.  You'd have thought it was poison.