Good Morning Everyone! Its a COOOOLD one today... I have the heater going and the fire just died and I am still freezing. Well yesterday was "Gobble Gobble" day so with that of course I have new Mia stories.
This year was a little different. Since Alex is still so small and doesn't do well in the car, we decided that I would stay home with him while Adrian and Mia went to San Diego to celebrate Turkey day with the Cardoso family. I felt a little bad that I couldn't join them but Mama duties called, it was a good day though Alex and I had lots of bonding time. Adrian on the other hand, had his hands full with little Miss Mia.
Mia woke up in one of her famous moods. She was cranky, demanding and not happy. Though most of the morning was a battle I still managed to take some pictures of her in her little Holiday dress. A hand-me-down from her cousin Brianna. Once all dressed up in her dress, new shoes, and poofy socks she was ready to go. It was hard to stall her for another 2 hours because she kept wanting to go "outside" or "byebye". Eventually it was a good time to leave and her and Daddy headed out.
She did good on the road, she slept most of the way so once they reached her Grandma Rebecca's house. They decided to stop by there to say hi and visit a bit before heading to Tia Ana's house for the Turkey Day celebration. Once at Grandma's house Mia went nuts! She loves her Grandma so much and was so excited to see her again. Of course she got into EVERYTHING! jewelry, crayons, items and all sorts of things went flying. After a pretty good visit it was time to go, but Mia didn't want to leave. Uh-Oh! Finally Adrian got her to the car but she insisted that Grandma "Sit down" in car to go with them. She wasn't to happy when Grandma couldn't go with them.
Then it was off to Tia Ana's house. They got there pretty early so Mia had time to run around and play with cousin Adan's toys. They were first to eat as well and to Adrian's shock (and mine when I heard) she actually ate TONS of food! WOW! Thats alot coming from little miss picky eater. She ate lasana, ham, mashed potatoes, turkey and all!! I am impressed.
Soon people began to show up and Adrian said she was a bit shy at first but warmed up quickly. She went up to her Great Grandma and said "Hi" which she never used to do and was running all over the house playing with her cousins. At one point she was holding her cousin Brianna's hand and jumping around, next she played with Adan who then became alittle rough with her (hey hes a boy it comes natural! haha) but she still enjoyed playing with his cars. At one point she was having so much fun she screamed super loud and the entire family grew quiet and looked at her in shock! Yep, Mia was making her presence known!
She also went upstairs to where her older cousins where. They were setting up to get ready to play some Guitar Hero (a virtual band video game) and right away she went to the drum set. She took out the sticks and was having fun hitting the drums and kicking the bass drum. She was having a bit to much fun because once the older cousins wanted to play she didn't want to give up the sticks. They tried bribing her with the unused guitar but she wanted no part of it. Eventually Adrian had to go over there and take the sticks away. She wasn't to happy about that but that didn't stop her from snatching one of the sticks back when no one was looking! haha
She was also a little goodies monster!! Adrian said there was a huge table full of sweets and every now and then he would catch Mia running off with a giant cookie! Another time he found her mouth covered in chocolate! She was in heaven especially since we never give her full reign of sweets. No wonder why she was all hyper and screaming around the house! haha
Another cute thing that happened was she really took to her Tia Ana. She kept calling her Grandma! I think because her Tia and Grandma are sisters and look similar. But she was in love with her Tia. She kept insisting on sitting on her lap every chance she got, following her around the house, and just giving her tons of hugs. Tia Ana didn't mind and spent alot of time with her.
Towards the end of the party and as people started to leave and things winded down Adrian found Mia sprawled out on the kitchen floor!!! She was tired! I think she sugar crashed! haha She didn't even have her blanket, she was just laying there. Thats when it was time for them to head home. Mia slept a bit on the ride back and once they got home she went straight to bed and knocked out. She was in her jammies but had her dress still on. I asked Adrian about that and he said that when Tia Ana put on her jammies, Mia insisted she wear her dress over them! haha My little Mia, always loves to dress up.
Overall Thanksgiving was great for all of us. Granted I wish I could have been there with them but staying home with Alex was still nice (though he refused to sleep much and I didn't get to catch up on all the rest I wanted) it was still fun. Hopefully Christmas I will feel comfortable enough to take Alex down south because I would really like to be around some family during the holidays and see Mia run around with her cousins. That is always a treat. Well I think I will get some left overs and some rest before the Mia monster wakes up. Adrian is out shopping for black Friday morning deals at Target so I won't get much relief from the kids today. I need to prepare for that!!
Happy Post Gobble Gobble Day!!!
