Confessions of a Mom.: First Thanksgiving and 5th Tooth

So, I forgot my camera for Joshua's first Thanksgiving last Thursday. So there aren't any pictures from that. But we did have a second Thanksgiving on Sunday here and I managed a couple pictures (I state again, I am horrible at remember to take photos at family events, it always starts good, and then i forget all about my poor little camera.)

Joshua had a nice first Thanksgiving. We went to Grammy Nikki's house (Jay's grandmother). Of course, this year, the Patriots were playing so we had to work around the game. But it worked out well. I woke up early and headed to Concord, NH for the galloping gobbler 4 mile Thanksgiving day road race (I survived) then hurried home to shower and get ready to go. We got down to Salem around noon time and had snacks, settled in Joshua. The men sat in front of the TV and watched football, and the girls got dinner ready. Dinner was set to be done during half time, but since eating takes longer than half time, the men had a special "man" table set up in front of the TV so they could have both at the same time. Joshua even got to try some of the "big-people food." He had some squash, potato, carrots, and I think that's all.

Joshua was the center of attention for most of the day and was pretty OK with that. He did well for most of the day, and even managed to nap when it was time for the adults to eat, and again when it was time for dessert to come out (for the first time in the history of the last 9 months!). He got a little cranky towards the end of the day as he was getting tired and overwhelmed with all the people and being in a new place, I think. When we got back home he got to play for a little while, but pretty much, ate his bedtime snack and went to sleep.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we noticed that his next top-middle tooth had cut in, which may have contributed to his on and off fussiness for the past few day.

Sunday, we somehow crammed 11 of us into our little condo for my second Thanksgiving. We had up my parents and sisters, my aunt and uncle and cousin, and Jay's Dad and Stepmom. My first turkey was a hit, as well as everything else! I asked everyone to bring a dessert, because I am better at cooking than baking and figured then I wouldn't need to make any desserts. Now, we will be eating leftover Thanksgiving food and desserts for the next week and a half (which isn't a bad thing.) Joshua was the center of attention again. He loved spending time with his Meme and Pepe and everyone else he doesn't get to see very often. He was in a good mood most of the day and got to eat some of my homemade squash too.