Month 5/ Lesson 5

In month 5 we had our first major holiday!  And in my family, Thanksgiving is a huge deal.  It is at least a 2 day event.  My two brothers, my dad, and his four brothers and sisters with their multiple kids and their kids' multiple kids and in some cases, their kids.  So that's three generations in one house.

But back to the matter at hand.  In the 5th month of motherhood I learned how to handle the first major holiday.  We have now survived our first trip, however, the drive to our family Thanksgiving is longer.  Cooper did pretty well on the 6 hour drive... but the last hour I think he was tired of being in the car and cried. (And I forgot to mention he cried the last 30 minutes of our first trip... come to find out he pooped!  Whoops.)

Then it was Thanksgiving Day!  Cooper wasn't really interested, but I had the Thanksgiving Day parade on the TV for him to watch.  He took his first nap and things were still on schedule.  We headed to our family Thanksgiving after he woke up.  When I was trying to plan for the day, I was worried about how Cooper would get his other 2 naps he usually takes.  So I thought "he usually sleeps well when he's lying on me."  So I took my Moby wrap and hoped that it would help him sleep... and it kinda worked.  He did nap on me, briefly.  I thought if he could fall asleep while wrapped up, maybe I could walk around some once he was asleep.  Nope.

After the family Thanksgiving lunch, there was dinner with friends too.  Despite Cooper's lack of sleep, he did pretty well and didn't fuss much.  I'm sure that had to do somewhat with my friend's two children being super interested in Cooper.

All in all, they day was good.  However, I was exhausted from being worried about his sleep all day.  So, we all slept great that night!