It was such a great day to see some family! My brother and sister in law, and their two boys came out for a visit this weekend, specifically to meet Laela. While everyone was more than willing to come to our house for the days they’re out, we opted instead to meet at my parents, since they have places set up for the boys to take naps and everything. We’re pretty comfortable there anyway. A second home, I suppose. So we all decided to meet there for brunch at noon.
Laela bean had a solid night, waking up to eat at 10:30pm, 1:30am, and 5:30am. We all slept until 9:30am!!! It was actually a beautifully long night, so we felt nice and refreshed in the norming. We fed Deks a little something before heading out. We arrived at my parents place around 11:00.
The day was wonderful. We ate a monstrous brunch and the kids played pretty well. As per usual, Dekker was insanely shy and it took a while for him to settle in, but all the boys needed naps at the same time so they all went down for a good hour or three and were quite refreshed afterwards. We all got a kick out of comparing the stages and ages though. There are gaps of one year between each kid, almost exactly. My nephews are three and one, Dekker is two, and Laela is new. It was kind of perfect because we could all relate to each other in the way our kids were acting.
We celebrated Brady’s birthday over supper. He didn’t know it was coming, which was always fun, but my mom and I had previously discussed what meal he might really enjoy for his birthday, since his actual birthday is October 14th, which falls on Thanksgiving Monday this year and we figured it might kind of get missed, with that and with Laela’s birth. So my mom prepared a huge perogy feed, with farmer sausage and gravy. It was sooo delicious! She made him a chocolate cake for dessert, which was actually quite decadent without being too rich. I love that supper tonight was as yummy as it was, and that we’re going to have Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow too! I’m thinking this weekend isn’t going to help me lose my pregnancy weight, haha!
(*Braggy side note that I need to include: I weighed myself at my parents today at am officially down 19 lbs! Laela was half of that and I still have a ways to go, but it counts! Heyo!!!)
We left to head home at around 7:50 this evening. It seems so early, but we want to try and keep Dekker on track with his schedule. We have never been too concerned about “scheduling” things at all but right now, if we delay Dekker’s bedtime by 15-30 minutes, he struggles waaay harder! So we want to keep him at his best for when we’re all together tomorrow again. He still went to bed later than he would have had we left even sooner, but this worked. He didn’t put up a huge fuss at bedtime at all, which is a great relief for Brady and I. Bedtime is hard for lots of kids, but its always sad to put him down for night when he so clearly would rather be playing with us.
But luckily, that isn’t the case tonight. Laela is dozing, the bath has run, the house is quiet, and I’m so ready for some guilty pleasure tv. A little bit nervous for the night, since Laela seemed to skip her “wakeful time” today but who knows. There’s still time for her to be awake and get good and tired.
More family stuff tomorrow! Looking forward to it!