We Give Thanks

Dear Conrad,

In very little time, you were a month old and Thanksgiving was upon us. We drove all the way from Columbia, Missouri, to our families in Russellville, Arkansas, for the first time since you were born. We were worried about the challenges of driving with a newborn, especially since the trip home was over 300 miles!

November 16th, 2012

We stopped at Arby's in a town called Lebanon on the way there. Your daddy has such a young-looking face in this photo ... maybe because of all the hair on his head. I wonder if you'll have as much hair as he does or if you'll be bald like your Poppy.

Thanksgiving was much busier than I could have ever expected. Nana and Papa normally make a full Thanksgiving meal, but this year your uncle Howard's family came to visit immediately following dinner so they could see your cousin Ryker. It was a pretty rushed event.

Hoo boy, did I over-process this photo or what?
Ryker (7 weeks) and you (5 weeks)

Normally, Poppy and Gigi don't really have a Thanksgiving meal; we normally just have a regular, but nice, dinner with your aunt and uncle and cousins. We still wanted to make sure that everyone got an equal amount of visiting time, so we were bouncing back and forth between houses a lot.

Your uncle Howard was sick during Thanksgiving. Even though he didn't handle you, he interacted with everyone else and his own baby, so you ended up receiving it from someone. Your daddy caught it too, though he was sick longer than you were. I think you only coughed and had a runny nose for three days, whereas Daddy was sick for the entire week after we came home from Thanksgiving. I ended up catching it the next week. I was so mad at Howard for being around when he was under the weather, but what can you do? I probably would have still come down and seen everyone if I were the one who was sick. At least you weren't sick for very long, and it didn't seem to hit you as bad as it did us.