turkey day wrap-up/bday time!

so! hope everyone had a festive thanksgiving weekend and are sufficiently sated with thanksgiving-y goodness. i'm partial to stuffing. :)

our thanksgiving was mostly good. we headed up to my parents' on thursday morning for a midday meal. we had turkey (of course), stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberry relish, cranberry fluff (?), rolls, and pumpkin and chocolate tofu pies (made by yours truly). it was a lot of food. the afternoon passed in a food coma, and everyone else headed out late afternoon-ish. that evening after the kids went to bed, i started feeling kind of achy. yes, this has happened before, not so long ago (see christmas 2007). i took tylenol and felt kind of better. slept in the next day and felt okay till mid-afternoon when i started coughing and getting achy again. long story short, i'm still achy and coughing, with a low-grade fever. woo! it doesn't feel like a cold, so we might be looking at bronchitis. we'll see what the next couple of days bring.

anyway, other than that, the weekend was great. abby had a blast with grandparents, as usual. ian was a little grumpy, thanks to some evil teeth, but he did okay.

4 years ago today, at 3:26pm, abigail beckwith entered the world. she took a long time in coming (43-hour labor), but is totally worth it. i'm having a hard time believing it...4 seems so grown-up. :) she had a good birthday...we went to church (where everyone sang to her), then came home, lunch/rest time, then went out on some errands which included stopping at cold stone creamery for her bday treat. she chose chocolate ice cream with strawberries mixed in. looked pretty good to me. she also chose pancakes for supper, so i think we all know her loyalties lie with carbs. :) i spent part of the afternoon reading old blog entries and reminiscing to myself about how much she's grown. tonight when i was feeling sick, i laid on the couch and she came over and told me a story (transcribed verbatim):

"once upon a time. there was a cupcake! named......CAR. one day. he walked, and bashed into a BOX! then he jumped OVER the box! then he jumped onto the train table! and that was the end."

there were other stories that seemed to be in a similar vein (walking, jumping over things). she's just so smart and funny, and as much as she and i have problems sometimes, i wouldn't change a thing about her.

happy birthday, princess peanuthead.