Portland Part I

This year for Thanksgiving we headed out to see Eric's family in Portland, OR. It is seriously so beautiful out there, always so lush and green - I'm sure the fact that it rains all the time helps out. Here is Nick with Eric as they took a pit stop on the way to the airport.

So beautiful with the leaves! I'm impressed that Nick actually sat on the bench and didn't try to move... he's rather mobile these days.
Later that afternoon back at Gr'Auntie Marilyn's house, Nick decided that he was going to crawl up Marilyn's entire staircase, which is 17 stairs and a landing! We don't have any stairs in our house so I had no idea he could even do this. So here he is at the bottom of the staircase.
Almost to the landing! He actually made pretty good time up all of the stairs. Although he did take a small break while on the landing to explore.
Finally reaching the landing! I was super impressed at this point, not even knowing that he would keep going.

On his way up to the top of all of the stairs. He was so proud of himself, and so were we!
On Thanksgiving everyone gathered at Gr'Auntie Marilyn's house. Cousin Jeremy put on these funny glasses and Nick loved seeing him in them.
Of course no Thanksgiving is complete without pie for dessert (homemade by Eric). So we gave Nick his first bite of pie. Let me tell you, the boy has a sweet tooth and he loved it!
Gr'Auntie Becky got in on the action as well. It was so cute to watch him eat it, he loved the pie but would make a face every time he had some of the ice cream.