Midnight crawler

It rained last night and on and off today!  It was such a nice change in weather.  We even had lightning and thunder--which never happens!

We are so sleep deprived.  It has been about 2 weeks now of Cooper waking up every hour and whimpering.  Last night was the worst because he woke up and stayed up for 2 hours thinking it was play time.  He is trying to master crawling so he wakes up in the middle of the night practicing.  Maybe his personality is a little like mine...determination and an overachiever.  If he wasn't so cute I would be a lot more frustrated.  But he gets this big grin in the middle of the night, like, look what I can do mom!  I seriously want to tell him, just learn to crawl already!!!!  I. need. sleep.

It's Thanksgiving tomorrow!  I am excited to make turkey dinner.  We are making a small dinner for the four of us.  I can't wait to let the kids try all the food!  (Of course they've had everything before...but it just seems different that we're having all the food together on Thanksgiving!)  I can't wait to stay in my jammies and make pumpkin pancakes for breakfast.  Sounds like the best weekend--super relaxing.

I don't think I wrote on Thanksgiving day last year, but we spent it with Jason (which we have done for many years).  He comes to visit, I make dinner and we enjoy the weekend together.  Last year I was pregnant and too tired to do much of anything.  I could barely make it through dinner.  Chris had to help cook because I couldn't lift the turkey.  I was also still in school getting my MBA so I had a lot of homework to do before graduation. 

This year Jason is spending the holiday with his girlfriend.  I'm tired, but because I have two babies to look after...who are getting more mobile by the day.  Chris will be helping again, but that's also because we have two babies and need to be able to trade off.  (I don't mean to make it sound like he never cooks...he actually cooks dinner all week for us.  He has really learned his way around the kitchen.  I just mean to say that I really LOVE cooking, especially for Thanksgiving.)  My how our lives have changed in one short year.

I got my dress in the mail today and I love it!!  It fits perfect, is exactly what I was looking for, and doesn't look like a bridesmaid dress at all.  I can't wait to figure out what shoes and accessories I will pair with it.

Okay...I'm off to start Thanksgiving dinner preparations.  So fun!