...TO SYRACUSE
We celebrated Thanksgiving in Syracuse this year since Christmas will be spent in Spanish Fork. We drove down on Tuesday night after Jonathan's class (and after packing more than we'd ever need into our run-down car), helped my mom with the grocery shopping on Wednesday, ate five dinners on Thursday, shopped on Friday, visited Spanish Fork on Saturday, and went to church and drove home on Sunday. It was a much-needed trip. I feel so fortunate that we were able to go.
Netty slept most of the car ride down, but woke up in the Willard Bay area (for those who don't frequent that part of Utah, it's north of Brigham City, and about an hour away from my parents' house). She was screaming, so I put one of her Baby Einstein movies on our laptop. She watched most of the movie without making a peep. I turned the light on in the back just long enough to snap a picture of her stare.
Papa made pancakes on Thanksgiving morning, and Netty went to town on hers. She was such a good eater all day. While we were eating dinner, she sat on my lap and sampled everything. She loves yams and potatoes, and she ate quite a bit of Aunt Brandon's jello. However, her favorite thing was stuffing. Several hours after our dinner (which was really at about 1:00 in the afternoon) Netty ate a dessert plate full of stuffing. She also had pumpkin pie cake and ice cream for dessert.
I think this picture was taken by my niece Anya, Aaron and Brandon's daughter. Netty has a toy that my mom made before Sarah was born. It's a wooden ring with a dowel in the middle that holds three wooden beads. Every baby that has ever visited my parents' house has played with this toy. Well, Netty became super attached to it. She would scream at us when we tried to take it away from her ultra death grip. She even fell asleep holding it a few times.
Netty had her first Black Friday shopping experience. Papa babysat while Jon and I went shopping with HoneyGram and Stephanie at Kohl's at midnight, but then she went out with us at 5:30 to the Syracuse Walmart (you would have thought it was any other day at that store because there were so few people there), Old Navy, and the Layton Hills Mall. She fell asleep while we were in J.C. Penney. After our shopping trip we went to breakfast at a little diner where they serve ginormous scones, and Netty ate off of HoneyGram's plate. She took two more naps that day.
Netty started getting two more teeth while we were gone, and her favorite pose the entire time was with one finger in her mouth. She'll look a little a Jack-O-Lantern unless the others come in soon.
...TO SPANISH FORK
Our main purpose in going to Spanish Fork on Saturday was to see Jon's Grandma Claudia who has schizophrenia and cancer and isn't expected to live through Christmas. However, we also made sure to see Alyssa and her family, who were in town for the same reason. Netty's cousin Bryce is about five weeks older than she is. We last saw them over the summer, so we were so happy to be able to see them for about an hour on Saturday.
Bryce couldn't keep his hands away from Netty. Alyssa took Netty over to Bryce (held by Cassie, Jeremy's girlfriend), and Bryce lunged for her.
Although Bryce sucks his thumb, he was really interested in Netty's binky.
And then he went for the feet. Netty didn't know what to think of him. She hasn't been around many babies.
Finally, when Bryce was distracted, Netty retaliated by grabbing his clothes.
...TO REXBURG
We drove back last night after dark. Netty was tired and fell asleep almost as soon as we got in the car. She woke up when we stopped for a bathroom break in Malad.
We kept driving and stopped at the big Flying J in McCammon, Idaho. It's about the halfway point, and because of the large parking lot, discreet breastfeeding is easy. Netty didn't eat much. She was too busy looking out the window and talking to Jon and me. She fell asleep not too long after we got back on the road and slept the rest of the way home.
I brought Netty in when we got home while Jon unloaded the car. After nursing, Netty was happy and didn't want to sleep. I was doubting whether I'd ever get to sleep last night because she was so wired after sleeping so much in the car. She was just so happy to be home! She finally went down a little after midnight.
Netty slept through the night last night! She has only done this on a few occasions, and I was betting that last night would not be one of them because she has slept so horridly at my parents' house last week and she had taken so many late naps yesterday. However, she slept until 8:00 this morning and talked in bed until she fell asleep again. She finally woke up for real at 10:00 and snuggled with me for a while. And she still took a two hour nap AND a three hour nap! She's now awake and happy. She's been asleep more hours than she's been awake today! I can't believe my luck, and it will probably never happen again. But I can dream, can't I?
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