Bobby's Sunday Summary

This week was our trip to our friend Julia’s in Milwaukee for Thanksgiving.  It was a good trip.  The day after we arrived it snowed and the next morning Alice got to see and touch snow for the first time.  She was not that excited about it.  For Thanksgiving itself we watched a movie sat around and played some board games.  For dinner we had Thai food: fresh spring rolls, chicken satay and massaman curry.  We held off on the traditional Thanksgiving dinner until Friday when another of Julia’s friends could show up.  We had turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, rolls, and three kinds of pie.  It was a very good dinner.

During the entire vacation Julia was trying to encourage Alice to crawl, and Alice did learn a few new tricks while we were there.  She will now go down on all fours almost in a crawling stance but with one leg still underneath her so she can get back to a sit again.  She can extend her reach to nearly a body length, which is much farther than we were prepared for.  While in this position she can turn herself around and even scoot a little.   Sometimes she will let the other leg go out from underneath her so she is on her belly and then she can either army crawl forwards very slowly or push her self backwards a bit more quickly.  She is still getting used to it but no doubt she will be completely mobile very shortly.  Sorry we don’t have any video of her doing it just yet.

On Saturday we drove home but stopped off at the Chicago Temple for two sessions, one for me, and the other for Susan, so we could take turns watching Alice.  Alice slept through half of Susan’s session and all but the last 45 min of the drive home.  When we finally got home the entire family was very, very tired.  Alice and I fell asleep at 7 and Susan fell asleep at 8, she only woke up once to feed Alice.  We all woke up again at 7 the next morning feeling much better.

Today at church Alice was the most wiggly she has ever been.  I don’t know if it is her newfound mobility or just that she had more energy after sleeping so much, but she was all over the place and did not want to be still for even a second.