Adalyn's First Turkey Day

This weekend we headed home to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families in Indiana. We went home on Wednesday evening and got to Indiana late. Addy did very well on the long drive and slept most of the way. On Thursday we spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa Schum's house. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal. Unfortunately we didn't get to give Addy many tastes because she was still getting over her sickness. The weather was beautiful, so we decided to take Addy outside to enjoy it. She took a wagon ride around her grandma and grandpa's yard--which she loved! We spent the rest of the day watching football and relaxing.

On Friday my mom, sister, and I braved the crazies and set out on a Black Friday shopping excursion. We encountered a few crazy long lines and only saw one irrate shopper. We spent a long time shopping and came home with a car load full of goodies. On Friday night, our families were hit by the flu bug, which was probably brought home by us. It was crazy--my whole family and Derek's mom all got sick at some point on Friday night or Saturday morning. Since, everyone in the two households was sick and we didn't want Addy to get sick again, we decided to cut our visit short and head home to Illinois early Saturday. We hated to infect and run, but we didn't want to experience another weekend like we had already had the previous weekend!

So we had all Sunday to get back in to the routine of things and do some things around the house. Sunday morning I woke up to the pitter patter of little feet and hands coming up our stairs. Addy climbed up our entire staircase to come see me (of course Daddy was close behind). The stairs are her new discovery and she loves to crawl to them and climb on them. She is certainly a dare devil! Teething has really hit Addy with full force. She is working on two more top teeth, which would make six in all. Saturday night was a tough night for her because she was in a lot of pain from her teeth coming through. We also had our first snowfall of the year, which made Addy very excited! In the evening we decorated our Christmas tree. It was certainly a busy and eventful weekend full of lots of family time and relaxing. We are also happy that our famliies are feeling better and that the sickness didn't keep them down for too long.