A Sunny Florida Thanksgiving

We traveled to Port St. Lucie Florida for Thanksgiving this year. My brother, David, hosted dinner and enjoyed spending some quality time with his nephew.

Here's Oscar and David playing Oscar's favorite game. It's called, "I'll pass you something (e.g. a blade of grass, a piece of lint, garbage etc) and you say 'Thank You." Here, Oscar is playing the game with grass.


Oscar really enjoyed cuddling with his Uncle David. For those of you who don't know, David and I are twins. Nope, we don't look alike. But we have fairly identical tempers (and eyebrows-unfortunately).


Here's Oscar with his Grandma Kathy-David's mom. She was happy to get some cuddle time in because Oscar seemed more partial to the guys for some reason.



Here's Oscar with my dad. Dad enjoyed walking Oscar around the house--so I could eat my dinner and even gave Oscar a tour of his truck.


Here's Oscar with my brother's wife's father, Mario. Oscar was fascinated with Mario.


Below, Oscar is playing with my father. Can you believe how beautiful the weather is in November in Florida?


Oscar was very curious about the patio umbrella, so my father helped him get a closer look.

Drumroll please--here is my beautiful new niece, Angelina Matos. She is my brother and his wife, Cathy's first baby and was born on July 11. Here she is being held my her grandma (Cathy's mom), Noemi.

Here's a pic of everyone sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner. It was crowded, but fun--with the air conditioning on full blast if you can believe that.

All in all it was a hectic, fun Thanksgiving with no time to shoot any videos sorry. We flew back to Kansas City the Saturday after Thanksgiving just in time for the first snow of the season (crap). I really hate winter.

I think Oscar's really happy to be back in familiar surroundings though. He missed his classmates and his routine. Right now he's dealing with the usual-cold with double ear infection. His molars are really breaking through--4 at the same time. He's growing up so fast it's hard to believe.

Here are some quick videos of Oscar doing some of his favorite things.

He discovered that Sasha will chase the string on his helicopter toy if he positions it just right. This just cracks him up. Sasha is an excellent playmate. Even when Oscar decides to roll on top of her for a good snuggle.

Oscar loves rinsing off in the kitchen sink. Especially now that he's discovered he can dunk his whole head under the faucet. Fun times! That's all for now. Hope to write more next week.!