Thanksgiving 2012

Written by Angie

Day One: Noah’s blog entry is fairly accurate with regards to the trip down. What he failed to mention is that with 1 hour and 30 minutes to go Yaya wanted OUT of her carseat…he was playing a computer game at the time so he likely doesn’t recall this. He is watching me type this and wants me to let you know that he does indeed recall that. I loved sing along time with the Christmas carols. My sweet Noah sang along with all MY favorite songs. It warmed my heart to know that the songs I love are being passed down to my children and they love them too.  Karen Carpenter’s “Christmas Waltz”, Herb Albert’s “The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle” and Alabama’s “Thistlehair the Christmas Bear” are our top three! We made a stop at McDonald’s for Noah while Eden was asleep and as we were receiving our food at the window Eden woke up and said… “French Fires.” So back around we went. Consequently this time we were not first in line like before…we were 5th...nice. We finally arrived at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s house about 5:30 pm. Grandma and I had the idea to Skype the two days before we came to Grandma’s and show Yaya the entire house via Skype. Yaya got to see the entire inside of the house, her crib, the bathtub, the 9 deer on the walls downstairs…everything. So when we arrived Yaya recognized it all. She was indeed very excited, like Noah already said. Both girls were wired for sound and did NOT want to go to sleep. Yaya dropped off around 9 pm and Eden at 9:45 pm. Yaya had only one screaming meltdown but it was for only like 10 minutes…she was a very angry child in those 10 minutes however. She woke up about 3 more times that night. Eden did well.

Day Two: Grandma’s was great for the one child we feared would do the worst and it was the worst for the one child we thought would have a blast. I woke up my back all out of joint, which hasn’t happened in a long time. Noah was is out of sorts. He is sucked into the computer doing Mindcraft and or watching videos about doing MC. He had a rough day refusing to do anything with anyone, which is not like him.  We discovered that Yaya LOVES to ride on the golf cart. And I mean LOVES it. If you will let her drive she loves it even more! Eden did fairly well but she wouldn’t eat much. We found out why later that night in the tub. We ended the day with a fire down by the lakeside making s’mores but that even ended poorly. Finally we got the girls in the tub and that went well right up until the point Eden had a bm in the tub and she freaked out. So while I was consoling her and Eric consoling Yaya my poor Mom was cloroxing the tub and all the tub toys. The girls went to bed easy, thank you Lord for that, and Eric and Noah got some time together on MC, and I started to put the adoption blog into a Blurb book. Big sigh. We went to bed and I thought to myself…we can’t live through another day like that…well I can’t at least.

Day Three: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Today has been better by degree. We had a lovely thanksgiving lunch around 1 pm and a walk afterward. The kids are having a better time. Yaya, is ironically, great! Noah is better but we keep finding him on his computer and I really want to throw it out the window. Eden is well…almost three years old, but she is enjoying herself. Yaya has been on 3 golf cart rides and got to meet some friends today, Ms. Linda and Mr. Gene. She played Itsy Bitsy and showed off that she knew her colors. Noah shot his bow and he is amazing with that thing. He also owned Grandma in a volleyball game they made up and in a fierce game of track ball. Now everyone is settling down watching some Fresh Beat Band and vegging on the computer again. I believe that we have a “lighting ceremony” here this evening. This is when my parents let each child have a clicker and it will turn on cool Christmas lights around the yard to kick off the Christmas season. Hopefully the girls will go down easy again and we can get some time with Noah and we all will sleep well. Grandma and Grandpa have been so super and patient with our crazy kids and I hope they get some rest soon.