Thanksgiving Lessons

Holidays, time with family, and 20 hours in the car give you lots to think about. There were many lessons learned this Thanksgiving. I'll list a few, and you'll have to check Flickr later for pictures (technical difficulties).

• Jack is incapable of "making it" longer than 20 minutes without food.
• Ryker is incapable of sitting quietly.
• Even with dietary restrictions, Kaya and Christi can tag-team to eat pizza - Christi eats the crust and Kaya eats the cheese.
• It will take you 3 minutes to enter the zoo for every 1 person you attempt to go with - that means 33 minutes for us to get in the door. I'm not kidding.
• Related to that - the sliding doors at the St. Louis Zoo slide and ALSO open on a hinge, so double strollers really DO fit.
• Ryker and Jack really, really like hugging and holding hands with Beth.
  
• Josh is Jackson's hero.
• Ryker thinks it's hysterical when you pretend his socks smell funny.
  
• Jackson really likes taking care of Ryker, and will "make him fine." This holds true except when Ryker needs consoling in the middle of the night - at that point Jack will be so passed out he won't hear him crying 1 foot away.
• Chip and Christi aren't worried about their kids getting too close to the Wildlife Refuge that is down the road, mostly because the kids would have to get through the "Crazy Farmer" first.
  
• When it was time to say goodbye, Ryker thought everyone deserved a hug, but that Josh would appreciate a simple wave goodbye instead.
  
• I never laugh harder than when I'm in a room with my family, especially Christi and Beth -- and StL, my mom's house, and Charlie and BJ's always feel like home.