Tucker turned 10 weeks old the day before his first Thanksgiving which, consequently, is one of my favorite holidays! There's food, family and Dallas Cowboys football - how can it get any better than that?! Tucker's first Thanksgiving was also his first time to meet his Grandma and Grandpa Zind. But I'm getting ahead of myself.....
When we set out on the road Hayden was playing with his Star Wars "space ship" (it's actually the snow speeder from the Empire Strikes Back but he's only three so I'll let it slide) and was being relatively quiet. When we got to the interstate, though, we hear him exclaim "Applebees!" from the back seat. How in the hell he knows what the Applebees sign looks like I will never know! Of course, Jason and I are both cracking up because not only does he recognize Applebees and Pizza Hut, he also knows what Car Fax is! And as soon as Jason mentions how crazy it is that Hayden can recognize "Car Fax" Hayden starts repeating "Car Fax" over and over and over!
We were the first one's to arrive and GaGa and Papa's house with Uncle Scott arriving not long after. Scott went to take a shower and the water hadn't been running more than 3 minutes before Hayden started grabbing his pants and whining that he needed to go potty. And of course he doesn't want Mommy to take him downstairs, no he has to have Daddy take him to the hall bathroom where Scott is trying to shower!
Tucker was his usual sweet self - smiling and cooing and then Grandma Zind arrived. She was excited to meet him and wanted to hold him right away. Not a big deal until Tucker decided to spit up all over himself and the sleeve of her sweater! He proceeded to spit upon her again after that and on G.G. and myself as well! (Thank goodness I had brought one of my Dallas jerseys so I could at least change my shirt!) Not sure why he was so spitty other than the fact that he's still got a booger filled nose and a little bit of a cough.
After lunch the guys went downstairs to watch football while the women sat in the living room talking and watching tv. Around 3:30, Alli was looking to see what else was on and I swiftly and secretly talked her into changing it to the Fox channel - the channel the Cowboys game was on! Tucker woke up from his short cat nap at that point but didn't really act hungry so I turned him around so he wasn't facing the wall. The tv then caught his eye and even though I know he didn't know what was going on and that all he saw was a bunch of different moving colors I like to think he was excited about the game! He kept waving his arms around (as babies do) and making funny little noises. I'm certain one day he will grow up to be a Cowboys fan! And then he'll turn 7 and then I'm sure he'll be persuaded to the dark side by his father and grandfather and become a Chefs fan (and no that's not a typo!).
When supper time came around everyone fixed a little plate of leftovers. Hayden wanted a cinnamon roll. We had had chili and cinnamon rolls at poker night five days before so that's what we thought he was talking about. But those cinnamon rolls were gone! It was then that Hayden pointed at what he really wanted - the rolls left over from lunch. The were those Hawaiian sweet rolls and for whatever reason Hayden associated them with cinnamon rolls. He's a strange child that's for sure!
The night ended with everyone fat and happy. And all four of us in the same bed.
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