Happy Turkey Day

Thanksgiving Day was an incredible feast of Puerto Rican food! Actually, every day seemed to be a great day of Puerto Rican food thanks to Abuela... I'm sorry to say that Little Miss Hunger Strike missed out. She usually loves red beans & rice, but wouldn't TOUCH it. In fact, she wouldn't touch most of her tried-and-true foods. She even started a new thing in Buffalo, where she'd put a bit of something in her mouth, and then just leave it there! No chewing, no talking, no moving her mouth, no drinking - nothing! We tried several different approaches, and finally after about 20 minutes of having a piece of broccoli sit in her mouth, I got her to open her mouth to take a drink from her sippy so she'd swallow (I'm so smart). Well, she's smarter than Mommy apparently, because she opened her mouth to take a drink and it all just came dribbling out. What the...??? She pulled this stunt on a number of occasions, and I have NO idea why. But I digress...

A bunch of us ate our hearts out at Abuela & Abuelo's, then in the evening most of us headed over to Uncle Bing & Aunt Denise's house for yummy desserts.Thanksgiving morning, watching cartoons and having a snack amonst her "friends". Ellison was totally in love with all of Titi Marie's Hallmark snowmen that move & sing. Here's her infamous fake smile. (hee, hee). :)

Wearing a tiara that Titi Marie gave her

Titi Teresa brought Ellison some new crayons and a turkey picture to color

With Titi Ana

Daddy & Ellison with her Uncle Joe & Aunt Margaret, and their 4 granddaughters (Bianca, Natalia, Genesis, & Gabriela)

A very small sampling of the Soto men: Jon brother, Joe, with his sons, Mikey & Tato; Papi (Jon's dad); Jon; Jon's nephew, Nicholas

Margaret & Gabriela

Oh, Ellison WOULD eat these Christmas cookies by the handful, though! She's licking off the powdered sugar. About every 5 minutes she was asking, "More, please".

[November 27, 2008]