Before
I get started on all my December activities, I wanted to take a moment to give
thanks for all my family and talk about our Thanksgiving this year. Thanksgiving will forever have a special
place in my heart because it was a year ago Thanksgiving that I found out I was pregnant.
I spent
the majority of our travels last weekend reminiscing about how I felt a year
ago and staring in wonderment at my beautiful Guinevere, who at the time was
little more than a little bean in my belly and now, here she is, in the flesh,
a fully living, breathing, cooing (and sometimes crying) baby. A year ago I was trying to hide the fact that
I wasn’t drinking because we weren’t even close to being ready to tell our
family. This year, I was able to have
some wine with my dinner (spaced appropriately due to breast feeding, of
course) and eat whatever I wanted without fear of nausea or heartburn.
We
followed pretty much the same routine this year as last year. Aaron and I spent Thanksgiving Day with his
mom and aunt near Temecula. My parents
drove up to join us as well. It’s so fun
having both sets of parents be driving distance now. It was surprisingly warm
for late November! All of us were
wearing shorts because it was too hot for long pants! I brought a cute little dress for Guinevere
to wear, which I cleverly did not put on her until we arrived. And of course, she had to wear a bib all
day. My little Mount Vesuvius cannot be
trusted with cute clothes. (She usually
goes through about 3-4 outfits per day due to spit up).
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| Guinevere on Thanksgiving Day |
The
next day, Guinevere and I went for a walk at Miramar Lake with my good friend,
Corey and her daughter. That night, my
parents volunteered to babysit for us and Aaron and I were able to actually
have a date night! We drove through fog
as thick as pea soup to the movie theatre, where we saw “Argo.” As we walked past the crazy long lines for
the new Bond movie, we both commented on how we were glad we chose to see
something that’s been out for a bit instead. I am so thankful to my parents for
watching Guinevere – our date night was a breath of fresh air.
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| At Miramar Lake |
Saturday
after Thanksgiving has always been my family’s traditional get together
dinner. My cousins, aunt and uncle and
grandparents all came down to my parents’ house in San Diego for more turkey,
mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, etc.
Everyone loved seeing Guinevere so much that I didn’t really hold her
very much at all! At one point, I looked
around the table and had to ask, “Who has my baby?” Turns out my cousin had taken her into the
other room to play. By the end of the
night, all of us were really exhausted, but happy.
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| Saturday after Thanksgiving - her tummy time skills have vastly improved! |
We had
a great weekend, but it was also really nice to come home to our own house and
have Guinevere in her familiar surroundings.
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