I’ve only missed a Thanksgiving post by a full week.

The baby is doing great. He had an ear infection that had spread to both ears, but two weeks ago he got a super antibiotic shot, and he’s all better now. Got our 8 month shots finally, and he weighed in at 23 pounds on the nose (at 8.5 months now).

On Thanksgiving Day he started to crawl, and it’s on video! He wanted Great Grandpa’s cane, and he pulled himself a good 4-5 feet across the floor to get it. Right now he mainly uses his right arm and his legs, and just leaves his left arm tucked under him. His favorite destinations on the floor are the Wii Fit and the cables on the front of the PS3. When Stacie asked me what I was going to do about that, I said I was going to place decoy cables around the room. Then he will crawl to the decoy cables and not mess up anything. I’m sure it will work.

I haven’t mentioned anything about my novel in months. I sent off two copies of it to be edited, and I now have them both back in my possession! My next step is to read through my editors’ notes, take some notes about any major changes I want to make, and then I need to go back through the entire thing one more time. My goal is to have it done by March/April because that will be two years since I started it. Originally I had hoped for Christmas time, but that’s not going to happen. Thanks again to Kevin and Joanne for all their hard work.

There’s a quick update on things. Baby pictures in the next one, I promise.

This year we did two Thanksgiving meals, and we have a third today. We spent Thanksgiving Day itself with my family, and then the day after with the wife’s family. Today we’ll be eating leftover ham for a special third and final day of food.

I was thinking a little about how family get togethers have changed over the years. My most memorable holiday gatherings in my mind are from my younger days when there were three generations, and sometimes even four, all gathered together under one roof. Granted I was a kid, and I was using the “everything is more WOW” kid eyes, but I look back on those days fondly. Right now most of our family events are only two generations…our parents and us. While I do have a grandmother left, the chances to see her are rare. Come Easter though we’ll be back to three locally (go baby!). I look forward to those days, this time through the eyes of one of the middle generations instead of from the kid table. If all goes well, some day I’ll be posting as one of the eldest generation.

No big after Thanksgiving Day sales for us. Anyone have an especially memorable Thanksgiving Day or post-Thanksgiving shopping experience?