Oops - flew by Thanksgiving

I forgot to post for Thanksgiving! My goodness... sorry! Ava's first Turkey Day. We spent it as we have been for the past few years in Waycross, GA with my father, his wife & son, my brother & grandmother. It was nice, cool weather, sunny, perfect. Delicious, and over too quick! We had planned to do mom's family that weekend, but things just fell thru left and right. So for the most part, it was a great long weekend. Don's bro & wife, and my mom came over Saturday, and we had a little get together. Planning holiday gatherings just isn't easy when there's so much family to try to get in. Another reason we got a nice house, with an open floor plan - so we could just do holidays here. We decided that every holiday is just going to be here from now on. It'll be easier, central, and did I say easier? Yes. There you have it.

How many days until Christmas?

Seriously, I think it's less than 2 weeks. Oh my goodness. I cannot believe that it's almost time again, and I feel like I may have said the same thing last year. I'm pretty sure I did. I'm thinking it's because Thanksgiving was just a couple of weeks ago, and time has just flown by. We don't even have a tree up! I know, it's a shame. No lights outside, or inside. I've barely put any decorations up, either. I have a few things here and there, but eh... This is our first year in the house, I kinda expected that we would be more into decorating, etc. Even with the baby, it's firsts all around. Last year, at this time, we were prepping to move all of our things into storage, and to move in to my mom's downstairs apartment. I was pregnant, and not really feeling the move. Bitterness, frustration, anxiety, on top of the pregnancy was all going thru my body. Thank goodness, and God, that everything worked out. And here we are today. In the house that we could only dream would be so right, with a baby that we couldn't have imagined being so perfect, and being blessed beyond what we deserve. God has a way of pointing things out to you, pointing out how He will handle things when you truly give them over to Him. We didn't think this would work out, and I know that both of us, Don & I thought that there was still the possibility that we wouldn't close on the house, or that something would fall through again and we would have to find an apartment or stay at my mom's for longer. We had already started in the side of our minds (ya, moved up from the back to the side) how we would arrange that little apartment at mom's to fit a crib, a sofa, table. We finally, completely just asked God to take it - and help us trust that it would work out. Jan 31 rolled around and it all fell into place. Amen. So I move on to the fun part - Ava. Our little miss fancy pants is now 7 months old. She's crawling all over the place, is pulling herself up and standing, and doesn't like to stay down much. She's learning what "no" means, and is an ok listener. She's 7 months, what can we expect? She's coming out of her waking up in the middle of the night to eat or cry phase, which is lovely. The past few nights she's been much better. I don't remember if I had mentioned in her 6 mo update, but she was waking up and crying, and was hungry. Our perfect sleeper had decided to flip the script on us. We were not amused. But we got her off the food, and would just find her pacifier, give her that and it would hold her for a few more hours. Her morning schedule was different, then, she wasn't waking up at 7:30 a.m. either, but whenever. So that made mornings interesting for a while. Then she would sleep most of the day and stay up so late! Oy! So now she's getting back into her groove. This weekend she went down at maybe 11pm Friday night, which is great, and slept until 10am Saturday morning! Um, so did I. We were out and about most of the later afternoon/early evening, and she was great. Snuck a few naps in during car rides, but other than that, she was up. I put her down at 10:45 and she woke up this a.m. around 6, and I gave her her paci, and she slept until 10. So it's been nice catching up on our sleep. It took us 3 nights to watch Man of Steel, which by the way is an awesome movie. (Doesn't hurt that Superman is super hot...) No teeth yet, just the same as usual. Her eyes are still light, a hazel, like mine. :) yay! And her hair is a light, golden brown. So she looks just like her daddy, but I get the skin/hair/eyes. Not too shabby. xoxo