This year, like almost every year, we enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner at my sister Jacy's house with a lot of family. There were 23 people there! The morning didn't start off too smoothly. Ava decided that she wanted to get up at 5am. She wasn't quite ready to get up, but she woke herself up and then couldn't go back to sleep. Needless to say from 5 am until we went to my sisters at 10am, she cried, whined and melted down every couple of minutes. It was just one of those mornings. Finally we decided to put Macy's Thanksgiving Parade on to watch. We thought that Ava would enjoy it. She did except for the fact that the commercials interrupted her parade and she would say over and over again, "parade,parade,parade." Trying to explain to her that it was coming back was really a moot point as she doesn't understand the concept of time. Once we got to my sisters house and she saw her dog and all the toys at her house, she was much happier! That picture is Mike and Ava watching the parade.
Later in the afternoon as Ava warmed up, she had such a great time with her cousin Sophie. Sophie is 4 and has been waiting to play with Ava since she was born. Ava was chasing her around the backyard. I didn't get a picture, but they were having a blast and laughing it up. I am just happy neither got sick after all that running. It definitely wore Ava out that night. She kept saying "home" towards the end of the night, which pretty much means, she is ready to go home and have some down time. She went to bed early that night. She asked for it. She does that occasionally now. All and all it was a great day with great food and good family time. Next year we will have a 10 month old and 33 month old with us. Crazy!!
Friday morning Mike and I got up at 5:30am and got out the door by 6am to hit some of the sales. I was sitting in bed and not wanting to get up, but thought that I just couldn't pass up some of the deals. Our bedroom TV is starting to go and I know there were a lot of TVs on sale, so we thought maybe we would check it out and see if any were left. Boy, were we wrong. We went to Target first and asked one of the sales people and she said they sold out of all there TVs in the first 4 minutes. The guy at the checkout said that people started lining up at 6:30pm on Thanksgiving. Those people are just plain crazy!! Anyway, we didn't need to get one and we didn't think we would, but we thought we would give it a try. We picked up a couple of things for Ava and some family members. Our next stop was Toys 'R' Us. This was Mike's first of many trips to that store. It actually wasn't that busy. I guess they opened at 10pm the night before. We went to get a kitchen for Ava and they still had tons left. I was looking for one more thing to get her that she would enjoy playing with, but she is kinda in that in between stage where she is going to outgrow the 18-24 month toys soon and the next group of toys is 3+ and she is still too young for that. We ended up getting a baby monitor for Noah that was a steal! That was about all I was up for. I can't do too much. We stopped and picked up some bagels and headed home!
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