Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We have so much to be thankful for in this Wetzel household! Although I miss my husband like crazy, I feel blessed that I even have him in my life. Plus, he gave me a wonderful little girl (and hopefully many more future little ones), and for that, I will forever be grateful. We could not ask for a better family, and our friends aren't too bad, either. We have a warm little house, all of our needs our met, and we have a furry little puppy that brightens every day. As you can see, we had a lot to celebrate today...

We started off the day watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Emily loved all the floats, and was delighted to see Mary Poppins perform a medley of her best songs.

Then we gave Emily her first banana. We got this cool baby feeder that is a mesh sack that you can put fruit or veggies in, and it keeps the baby from choking on the pieces. I love seeing her explore different tastes and textures.
It's quite messy, though.
Emily went back to lounging around the house in her Thanksgiving gear...
As Roxy avoided all the Thanksgiving commotion by hiding under the chair.
We then played with some of the goodies that Mimi brought us for Thanksgiving. She sent a pumpkin toy for Halloween that we have still been playing with, so it was definitely time to retire the pumpkin and get some use out of our new turkey. Whenever we see Mimi, she comes bearing gifts and life lessons, such as the proper way to wave, although Emily has no clue when to do it. My mom and I were both in the kitchen today cooking, and we went to check on Emily. She was laying in front of the television, by herself, waving. Gotta get that practice in! Anytime you feed her, she waves, as well. It's quite odd. I will put up a video soon because it is too funny. Soon our Thanksgiving feast was ready, and we set the table.
Don't worry. Emily had her own Thanksgiving feast... pureed pumpkin.Our meal was incredible and we both really enjoyed it, which is a good thing because we have TONS of leftovers. So much for losing the baby weight...
After dinner, we pulled out Daddy's baby album. Daniel's grandmother gave us three albums for our wedding of Daniel growing up, and we look at them all the time. It has been one of our favorite wedding presents. (Thanks, Grandma Fran!)
I cannot begin to explain how interested Emily was in looking at all the pictures. When we closed the album, she started to freak out. She must think Daddy is cute. (I don't blame her!)

She was so frantic that we decided to look at some more pictures...
It was one good day at the Wetzel house!