Thanksgiving Recap (Sans Photos)

Alas, I have no photos to share from Thanksgiving weekend. Not that I don't have any (I took a LOT) but just too lazy to download them from my camera. Hope to have some posted tomorrow.

I can share a recap for now - as exciting as it is. :)

Wednesday
My regular day off work which works perfectly for picking up our take-out Turkey dinner from Marco's Cafe. As luck would have it, the Cafe is right near a really cute Toy store which happened to have the gift Kei wanted to get Thomas for Xmas. I won't share what it is yet, but I can say that my idea of a play kitchen has gone by the wayside.

Met Kei at OMSI for an afternoon of Science fun and then home for dinner. A fun day.

Thursday
Decided to visit the Rhodedendrun Gardens in the morning to feed the (very hungry) ducks. False start at first as Thomas fell asleep in the car as soon as we left the house. Turned around to take him home for a nap. As soon as I put him to bed he woke up and asked to feed the ducks. Got back in the car. Made it to the gardens. Fed the ducks. Took LOTS of pictures. Thomas passed out in the car on the way home and slept for two hours.

Heated up lunch around 2pm and ate till we couldn't eat any more.

8pm - couldn't resist another helping of turney dinner.

Friday
Visited the Llamas - yes, the Llamas. Kei works with someone who lives on a Llama farm. Hung out with the Llamas for a couple of hours and then stopped at Burgerville for lunch on the way home. Thomas pased out in the car shortly after.

PM - Thomas VERY cranky. Kei and I wonder where our happy little boy has gone and cross our fingers that this is not the beginnning of the REALLY terrible twos. Everything is a struggle and little things send Thomas into a whiny, crying mess. Hungry but doesn't want to eat. Wants Daddy - wants Mummy. Want's this toy - wants that toy. Doesn't want to get in the bath - doesn't want to get out of the bath. Wants to watch the Wiggles - NOW!!! Doesn't want to go to bed. Finally falls asleep and Kei and I consider the possibility of another 12 months of a grouchy, whiny, difficult Thomas. Too exhausting to contemplate.

Watch Fast Food nation and seriously rethink our Burgerville lunch. Then quickly decide that Burgerville is OK but Wendy's and McDonalds are definitely out.

Saturday
Kei plays golf with a friend who is experiencing his last days of pre-parenthood. The baby is due this week and I think this game was being viewed as a last hurrah. Thomas and I head downtown to do a spot of Xmas shopping and my happy, fun little boy is back. Whoever it was that took over his personality on Friday can stay away.

Buy a gift from Anthropologie for a digi friend, some books from Powells (the BEST bookstore in the entire universe) and then have rotating Sushi for lunch. Thomas and I have a great time together shopping and reading. Soon after lunch we ride the train to the Pioneer Square to see the Xmas tree. Thomas falls asleep in the stroller just before the tree comes into view. Do some more browsing and a little more shopping before Kei picks us up at around 2pm, almost the same time that Thomas wakes from his nap in the stroller.

Head home with a happy little boy who laughs and plays and runs around the house like his old self - quietly hope that this is the norm and not the exception.

Thomas is put to bed and Kei and I watch Who the ?$##? is Jackson Pollock? Fun little documentary about a female truck driver trying to prove that her $10 thrift store find is actually a $50 million piece of artwork. I'm convinced that it is the real thing and vow to start looking more closely in Thrift Stores.

Sunday
Otherwise known as the day before the end of vacation (sigh). Kei and I finish in fine form with an argument that basically ruins the entire day. The good news is that my little boy is in good spirits (maybe this is the norm) and we end up having a fun day while getting some stuff done before the week begins - Grocery shopping, Laundry, Raking leaves. Kei plays golf (enough said about that).

Evening ends with some TV viewing - Amazing Race (LOVE that show - if I were a US citizen I think I would sign up) and Desperate Housewives. So the day was not a total loss.

Monday
Kei heads to Seattle for two days so it is just Thomas and me. I think we'll have Sushi for dinner tonight (the cooked kind of course for the preggo woman). Fingers crossed that he is still his happy self when I pick him up from daycare tonight.

So overall a fun weekend (apart from the small hiccup on Sunday). I feel like I actually had a break but already looking forward to the next one. Just four weeks until Xmas after all. Hope your weekend was a good one too.

Thanks for stopping by.
Nicole