First Thanksgiving with Ty

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
I hope that you all are well and enjoying lots of wonderful family time. It was a really good thankgiving with Ty, but Grandma B was too sick to come over, so that was a downer. But we had Becky over so that was a pleasant surprise. Ty was such a good boy sitting on Grandpa Lake's lap most of dinner...chewing on about 8 of his 10 fingers!!

Mommy cooked her first turkey and it was awesome! Really good, but that's expected because mommy can really cook well. Grandma Lake watched Ty as after dinner fun started with pool and poker in the basement. Uncle Jeremy and G'pa Lake were on teams and Mommy and Daddy were a team and the home field advantage proved fatal as they won 2 out of 3 games. But G'pa Lake won the poker tournament taking out mommy and daddy with a King/3 offsuit. Oh well...can't win them all!!

Uncle Gary came by too for Thanksgiving. He was funny because when he lifted Ty up Ty's eyes got real wide because Uncle Gary is so tall. Poor Uncle Gary had to wear sweats because his room mate washed his jeans in warm water....that's funny because there aren't too many clothes for an Uncle who's 6' 9"!!!

Ty is finally getting over his first cold. It's been over 4 weeks, but we have him on Amoxicillin. At first he was not going to take it and spit it out all over himself. That was not too fun, but now we are tricking him by putting it in his milk and he downs it like it's candy!! He is getting it out of his chest and can't wait till he can sleep back in his crib. He's had to sleep in his swing because with the drainage he chokes a lot.

Daddy is a big softy now because since Ty has come into his life, everytime he sees a baby born, he cries. Can't watch an Oprah episode that has a story about a baby without getting emotional. At night when it's Daddy's time to take care of him, when he wakes up he finds himself talking to him and making him smile, which just wakes him up more and makes it harder for him to get back to sleep. Which is way more important. But he is sleeping better and longer. One of these days he'll make it all the way through the night.

He did turn four months this past Tuesday. He's 18 1/2 pounds and 27 inches long. All smiles and loves EVERYBODY. Besides Mommy, he's the best thing that's ever happened to me. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and we'll talk to you soon.