The Adventures of Crankbutt, Poopbreath and Toulie: Turkey and snow and sledding... Oh MY!

So, We traveled North to where both are families are from for Thanksgiving. I left early Tuesday morning to spend some time with my mom, brother and nieces and Michael came up Wednesday after work. When we go away, Crankbutt doesn't adjust too well to sleeping in a different place. Places he likes to sleep are 1.) on mommy 2.) in his crib 3.) on mommy in her bed between her and daddy and 4.) in his car seat. Note: Pack-n-Play is not on this list. We did discover that if we put the padded changing table pad down in the Pack-n-Play he will sleep a little better in it.

Tuesday night we stayed at my mom's house and she had a fellow scrapbooker there to scrapbook. Needless to say there wasn't a whole lot of scrapbooking accomplished because everyone was loving Crankbutt and Poopbreath.

This is a doll mom had as a child and all of her kids and grandkids have played with it. She is now know as Shapie doll because my niece Madison wrote on her with a sharpie.

Wednesday when I got to my In-laws house, Grandpa Mike had an activity he wanted to do with Crankbutt. He got him markers and assured me they were non-toxic and washable. I'm sure they were non-toxic... I wasn't too worried. The washable idea is great in theory, but didn't turn out so well. I was fine with it, but he'd just had a bath at Grandma Mary's.
Drawing session with Grandma Marsha and Grandpa Mike.

He did try to eat the markers... he had a red ink stain on his lip the rest of the night.

Thanksgiving day the men started work on the Franken-Turken. (Which, by the way, turned out pretty well). But I had made a point to tell Michael that I wanted to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade with Crankbutt, you know... start a tradition. This is what Crankbutt thought of that idea...

He was passed out before the parade even started.

After his nap, Daddy and Grandpa Mike were out doing some snow removal and Grandpa wanted to take Crankbutt for a sled ride.
Resulting sled ride ...

Crankbutt wasn't diggin' it. After riding with Daddy, I got in with him and he was only a little happier with that.

We went and did some shopping on Friday with Grandma Mary before we went to pick up my nieces. And no, we didn't do the crazy Black Friday shopping. The only store we went to that had a line was JoAnn Fabrics... go figure.

Saturday, Daddy and I took Crankbutt to see Santa..... this is what happened....