Henry VanDyke

This Thanksgiving we had something extra special to be thankful for, Henry. We hosted the celebration at our house to simplify baby care. Oppa, YaiYai, Uncle Chuck and AJ all drove down from Tennessee to be with us. In addition, Uncle Mo, Aunt TM, Aunt Linda and Grandma Hinderer joined us from Erin’s side of the family. We had tons of food and Henry loved all of the attention.

Notable firsts during this Thanksgiving:

• Henry’s First Thanksgiving
• First Thanksgiving celebrated at our house
• Erin’s first time cooking the Thanksgiving turkey
• AJ’s first Thanksgiving with our family
• Uncle Chuck’s first Thanksgiving as a married man
• Tigerman’s first taste of Turkey

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Henry had two Halloween outfits this year. On the Thursday before Halloween he attended a costume party with other newborns wearing his ghost shirt. Then on Halloween he sported a spooky shirt from Uncle Mo and Aunt Toni.

Feed me or I'll become very unfriendly.

Aunt TM gave me this shirt.

We ran two contests in the days leading up to Henry’s birth, one to pick the day of his birth and another to pick his coming home from the hospital outfit . Here are the results:

Henry was born on September 21 as picked by Cathalina Dean. Uncle Chuck, Aunt Toni and Cathlina’s husband were each just a day off.

By a three vote margin, Lions, Alligators and Cars won as the coming home outfit over Lots of Elephants.

Here is a picture of Henry in his coming home outfit that we’ll have personally signed by Henry and delivered to Cathalina.

Henry says thanks for voting and guessing.