Shokufeh is... home

Enjoying it while I can

MrMan fell asleep in my lap while nursing, and it's kind of nice. Normally, these days, I'd put him down. (I love this somewhat new development of his staying asleep while being moved about.) But my laptop is handy, and I'm happy to hold him a bit longer. Such an occasion is rather rare these days. It reminds me of his younger days, the first few months of his life, when I would nurse him on the couch, and then watch tv while he slept on my lap. We were like this *wraps middle finger over index finger*, just about 24/7.

In a little while, we'll go to the park for playgroup. A change of venue. Should be fun. We decided against dressing him up for Halloween, since we have no trick-or-treating, or parties, in which to participate. And he's pretty anti-things-on-his-head. (With the exception of a hat that he picked out at BabyGap this weekend, and insisted upon wearing through the mall. My child, the fashion plate.) I figure a jack o'lantern bib will suffice until next year, when he'll have a greater appreciation for dressing in unusual fashion.

In other news, is it crazy that the thing that finally pushed me to just go ahead and buy tickets for Thanksgiving was the prospect of seeing blog friends? For a couple of weeks, we've been talking about visiting the Virginians, aka my dad's side of the family, for Thanksgiving. It's been a while since my parents have seen them, Sam and I haven't seen some of them since our wedding four-plus years ago, many of them have yet to meet MrMan, and I have yet to meet my cousin's younger son. But we hadn't bought the tickets yet. But last night, once I found out that The Princess and Freckle Face Girl would also be in the area, I clicked that button to purchase tickets. It wasn't that family wasn't enough to get me there. It was that I wanted to make sure we were there long enough to see friends, in addition to family. So now that's taken care of.