Thanksgiving Week

We've had a wonderful Thanksgiving week. Edgar was just commenting this morning on how blessed we are, and how good we really have it :) November's been a very good month for us. We spent Sunday the 23rd at Edgar's grandparent's house. The picture above is his grandparents--Francisco is holding Eli Francisco :) It was a very nice afternoon. Edgar's mom cooked an amazing feast, and we had a great time with family. Eli was a big hit, of course, though he slept most of the time. When he did wake up, he wasn't super happy, but he did really well during picture time.
On Tuesday I went to see my doctor, and she said that everything is healing really well. I asked her when I could start running again, and she said I could start now! Of course, since I can't even walk a mile yet, I think running is a little far off, but it's good to know I can start working toward that. I have already lost 20 pounds, which is exciting. I have quite a few more to go, but at least I've got a good start :)
Thanksgiving day was spent at Ryan and Jennifer's, though we did go back to Edgar's grandparent's house for a quick visit--it was their anniversary. Once we got to Ryan's house we had a relaxing day of eating and hanging out. Jennifer did an amazing job on dinner, and I now refuse to believe that she doesn't cook. Everything was fabulous. My favorite? The corn casserole. I just finished off the last of our leftovers, and am kind of wishing I took more :)
After dinner we went for a walk with the kids--including Eli (He seems to really love his stroller. I can't wait to try running with it!) We walked just over a half mile, which is frankly, about as far as I can go on a full stomach...I'm going to try for a mile today...slowly, but surely, right?!
After the walk we had dessert and coffee, and had a highly entertaining time watching Ben & Carly sing with the Karaoke machine. I was laughing so hard Edgar had to take Eli.
We came home and put Eli to bed. He is doing so good at night. He eats about every 3 hours during the night--sometimes he'll go longer. The only problem seems to be he has an extremely wet diaper at about 3 am, and for the past 3 nights in a row I have had to completely change his pj's in the middle of the night. Now I'm barely awake when I dress him in the morning, let alone at 3:30 in the morning. I am hoping the trend changes...I'm going to try and help the trend change by maybe getting some more absorbent diapers :) This morning at 4 am when I was putting new pj's on him, I did notice, however, that his umbilical chord was gone. I have no idea where it went--I looked through his pack 'n play, and through his pj's, but it's not there. It must have been in his diaper. I'll be glad to give him a 'real' bath tomorrow, and not have to worry about getting that wet.
Here's a picture of what his bellybutton actually looks like :)

This morning Edgar dressed Eli, and he promptly proceeded to poop right through all of his clothes, so we redressed him...again (yes, that's 4 outfits in 4 hours...yup, I'm doing laundry today) I thought this outfit was pretty cute. It's a 0-3 month outfit, so it's a little big, but I LOVE the red on him. I think he looks really cute in darker colors. And check it out! He's sitting up on his own! (Just ignore the pillow propping him up :) )

Believe it or not, there are some things going on in our lives other than Eli :) Today Edgar is out shopping for a new car. Hopefully we will have a new car by the end of the day. My car is...well...Edgar doesn't like it, it doesn't get very good gas mileage, things are starting to wrong with it...and the biggest issue is, the stroller doesn't fit in the trunk. So we are buying a fuel efficient car for Edgar to drive to work, and I am going to take over his Honda. I'm excited to get the new car, even though I won't get to drive it much. It will be nice to have 2 very reliable vehicles. We also got our laptop in the mail today. I'm SO excited to have this! Now I won't be confined to the office when I am doing my work for my classes I teach. We also got a new vacuum today (Feels like Christmas today!) Edgar got it out of the box and vacuumed all of the carpet in the house. He was pretty excited to have the carpets cleaned.

Once we actually get the car home, I'll be sure to send pictures.

Anyway, that's what's going on with us. Hopefully everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving!