Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!! God has blessed us in so many ways over the past year (and our whole lives) and we have so many things to be thankful for. We hope you pause today to remember all the things you are thankful for. We like reading our blogger friends' lists of things they are thankful for so we will do the same (in no particular order).

Barrett - Our beautiful son. You have changed our lives in every way...all positive. You make us want to be better people.

God - We are thankful to our Lord for his saving grace.

Freedom - Our freedom to worship our Lord, to say what we want, to live how we choose. We are thankful for the troops that are fighting and all the people who've fought in the past to provide us with these freedoms.

Our families - We are so blessed to have such wonderful, caring parents who have set excellent examples of marriage and how to love and respect one another. Thank you for your unwavering support of us in our lives. Barrett is so lucky to have you all as grandparents. We are thankful for our siblings and their spouses. Thank you for your love and support and for being wonderful friends and excellent aunts/uncles to Barrett.

Our nephews and niece - Preston, Zachary, Jake, Abby, Hudson, Alex. All of you hold special places in our hearts and always will. We love watching you grow and develop into wonderful people. We love all of you so much.

Friends - Mark and I have the most wonderful group of friends. We really do. We are so thankful for all of you. Your support and love over the years has made an incredible difference in our lives. We look forward to many more years of friendship.

Health - We are happy to be healthy and that our families are healthy.

Sadie - Our crazy, barking dog. We love you and you're a great "sister" to Barrett. Woof, woof!

Each other - We are each other's rock. We would not be half the people we are (which might not be that much - lol) without our "better halves". We love each other more every day which just amazes us. We have a great marriage and look forward to many, many, many years together.

Lastly, we are thankful that the 2008 football season is almost over. Our beloved Ags are terrible this year and it has been a painful season to watch. :)

B's Buzz 11.11.2008

Barrett is a busy little guy. He took his first steps a few days after he turned 11 months old. Each day he has added more and more steps and has been walking exclusively for a few weeks now. He has quite a vocabulary as well, including, quack-quack, all done, up, down, on, off, mama, dada, dog, cold. Now if you heard him say these words you wouldn't recognize alot of them but we recognize them and so far he is using them correctly. :)

Barrett loves reading books and often times we find him with several books around him and he is flipping pages, pointing at the pictures and words and of course talking out loud. He loves push toys and shape sorting toys. He received several puzzles for his birthday but right now he just throws the pieces everywhere. He LOVES when people sing to him. His favorite song is patty cake. He claps and tries to do the hand motions. He still loves the ABC's as well. That's been a favorite since birth.

We moved him to his front facing "big boy" carseat before our drive to Iowa. He loves it and has discovered the DVD player in the car now. We let him watch Baby Einstein occassionally which he seems to love except for one part where it is raining on a bear holding an umbrella. He screams everytime it gets to that part. It is so bizarre and we crack up and fast forward.

We switched him to whole milk on his first birthday. He is having a little trouble adjusting to it so he is still nursing. As soon as he starts drinking milk more, we will work on weaning him. Yay Steph for making it this long!

Stats:
30 inches (70th percentile)
21.6 lbs (30th percentile)
Head size is still 90th percentile

We take a picture of B in his diaper on the last day of every month. This is his 12 month picture.

A&M Games

It has been forever since we updated the blog (as usual). During our blogging absence we have been keeping busy with A&M football. We took B to the Army game. This was a big deal since it was his first trip to Kyle Field! We also trekked up to Ames, Iowa for the Iowa State game. Both games were wins thankfully. It was really cold in Iowa but we had a great time and Barrett and Steph ending up being pictured in the 12th Man Magazine.

Barrett and Daddy walking to Kyle Field.

Barrett pointing at the mecca of Aggieland - Kyle Field.

Barrett snoozing during the Army game. Yes those are noise blocking headphones. Come on people...are you really surprised he has those???

Sweet boy...

I had to post the picture of Mark wearing the Baby Bjorn in Iowa :)

Whoop! Barrett with the Yell Leaders.

Birthday pictures!

Barrett turned one on Halloween! We had a little party for him a few days after his actual birthday. Here are a few pictures...

Check me out on my new tricycle that Mommy and Daddy bought me! I love when Mommy pushes me around the neighborhood. I push it by myself around the house too.

Keeping with our Malhiot tradition, we took Barrett to breakfast on his birthday. We go to breakfast 2 days in a row now since Mark's birthday is the 30th. Here we are at our fave breakfast place - Ballard Cafe.

Barrett eating at Ballard Cafe.

Ballard gives you a free piece of pie on your birthday! They sang to him but said Bennett instead of Barrett. Oh well.

Birthday boy outside - his favorite place to be.

Yoda has a pacifier????? He did not like any candy in his treat bag. He would take it out immediately.Not a fan of Mommy's Princess Leia wig but seriously how could we resist taking that picture?

Barrett's cake...his party was football themed.

Um, why is everyone looking at me and singing?

They are still staring and singing...

You mean this whole cake is mine? Yummy!

Super yummy cake! Straight to the bath.