Happy Thanksgiving, Y'all!

We did Thanksgiving Texas style this year.
1) Lots of Food
2) Lots of Family
3) and we all had BIG HAIR!

Just kidding on the big hair but the rest is true. We traveled to my parents house in Frisco, Texas this year to celebrate being thankful. For the first time since (who knows) maybe 1994, we had the entire Tom and Charlotte Lair family together...2 grandparents, 4 sons (plus spouses), 8 grand kids (plus spouses), and 1 GREAT grandson (Titus). It was really special to have everyone together. I know it meant the world to my sweet mawmaw and pawpaw. Don't be fooled by the sap in my language though, it was great and wonderful, but it was loud and crazy as well! Games of salad bowl and mafia until hours of the night I haven't seen in a long time, intense tennis matches, and good talks around the fire. My camera got broken on the first night there so I only have a few pictures that I'll post below. Happy Thanksgiving.

A little post mafia snack break!

Titus' cousins Shannon and Derek

How do I...

How do I...Entertain a 16 month old on a COLD COLD day in Kansas City...

Cut a hole in a box and call it a fort!

This was a desperate attempt to keep everyone in our home happy until daddy got home from work! It worked...for awhile. When he got bored with the the idea of fort he flipped the box over. Titus really liked the box flipped over because he could stand on it! This made him really happy for about ten seconds and then got really mad! He was upset because he wanted the box to be a slide! I'm not kidding he tried sliding off the box over and over. He was pretty mad that the box didn't work like the playground slide! (At least I'm assuming that is what he wanted the box to do!) Thank goodness no one was hurt!!

fall family photos revisted...

This week has been pretty busy because we are about to...MOVE! That's right, we are moving to a different house about 1.5 miles from our current home. The thought of leaving are current home is a little heart breaking because we LOVE our neighbors and our neighborhood. The thought of our "new" house (which was built in 1905), is really exciting though. In the hustle and bustle of packing I haven't had a chance to do a week in the life Titus, so I thought I would post a few of our new family pictures on this page. My friend, Audrey, took the pictures and she rocks. Thanks, Audrey! (I tried to post some different pictures on here then the ones on the blog post below, so if you want to see more check out the post below). And if you need family pictures...hire Audrey! :)

Fall Family Photos

My friend Audrey took some family pictures for us this past weekend. Check out her work at this link...


http://twiceoverproductions.blogspot.com/2011/11/morasco-family.html

What, huh, yeah???

This past week Titus finally started calling me mama! It was the highlight of my day, week, life. Titus is 15 months, prior to this week he could say; dog, ball, outside, doughnut, all done, da da, ah ah (for his great grandpa), and bat. He could not say mama. I mean what kid says doughnut and outside before saying mama...Titus. (I guess we know what he loves by his words!!)  Well this week he finally started calling me mama! I must have made such a big deal about it that he thought he should say mama over and over all day! That's why the title of this post is What, Huh, Yeah. I've responded to his mama's about a thousand times this week with those phrases and other similar ones. So if you walk into our house anytime soon you will probably hear a sweet little voice yelling mama, mama, mama over and over.
It makes me smile.

A week in the life...7

October 23-October 30
Titus "helped" me in the kitchen this week for the first time. And by "helped" I mean he stood on a chair next to me and played with a bowl. It didn't last long, but I tried to document it with my camera phone. You can see the progression from the pictures.

At first Titus loved stirring in his bowl and I chatted with him while I chopped a butternut squash (for a delicious muffin recipe..you should try it!)

Then stirring in the bowl got a little boring for him

so he starting banging on the counter with an over-sized spoon, while eying what I was doing

And this how our time ended because he couldn't help me cut the squash. Oh well..it was fun while it lasted! I look forward to many more mommy son dates in the kitchen

This week it got a little chilly in Kansas City so we put Titus in his winter jammies! He looked pretty darn handsome.

 

We all put on our purple to watch the K-State v. KU game with the Williams family and then yesterday we put on our purple again to watch the game with the Wittmer family. Praise God for our friends who are K-Staters and who are willing to let cable-less people watch the game with them!!!

BP in the front yard, very important part of our week! :)

Here's to Pop

Titus' great grandpa, who we all called Pop, was a brick layer. He was a great man. I miss his hugs and smiles. These pictures are in honor of pop. We might have another brick layer in the family.