Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'

Let’s get this blog train rollin’! I’ve been too busy living my life to blog about it lately. But now that I’ve finally shaved my legs for the first time since before Thanksgiving, I’m starting to feel like order is restored at least a little bit, and I can spare a minute or two to blog some of the highlights.

We kicked off the holidays with a five-day trip up to Watertown, Connecticut to spend Thanksgiving with Dan’s family. A five-day trip translates to 7 days of mom time by the time you allow a whole day to pack and a whole day to unpack and get the household back in order. You cannot possibly fathom the high level of orchestration necessary to drive 2 babies 8 hours for a visit with the en-laws. There were actually a few moments when I would have rather been at work… until the vodka kicked in!

My absolute favorite moment of the whole week happened Thanksgiving night… after the Turkey dinner at house #1 (Dan’s parents’) and the dessert party at house #2 (Dan’s sister’s). We were winding down and putting away all the baby paraphernalia from a whole day of hauling the kids around, since we were staying at house #3 (Dan’s other sister’s). I set Graham up on the floor on his back with some toys and left him with Dan who was pitter-pattering around picking up. When I came back into the room Dan was holding Graham up in the air above his head, and both were grinning proudly. "Tell Mama what you did, Gi-Gi," cooed Dan. "One minute he was on his back," he boasted. "The next time I looked over there he was on his stomach." Another Milestone!

Graham had previously mastered the front-to-back roll, but we had never actually seen him do back-to-front. The little man was holding out for a big day… like his First Thanksgiving. Since then he’s been a rollin’ fool. You can tell he gets a kick out of it – Front, Back, Front, Back! Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’! Go G!