Thanksgiving in New York

In case you hadn’t noticed, there are pictures from our Thanksgiving in New York. You can find them under the Year in Pictures section. Before I forgot, I wanted to write up a post about our trip.

First off – Quincy was awesome an awesome traveler. He didn’t fuss or complain at all over being in the car so much. If only I could say that about his parents. We stayed at Dara’s mom’s for the whole week. Quincy had his own single bed to sleep in – which worked out better than we could have hoped.

The Monday before Thanksgiving was when we had our Thanksgiving dinner. This was the best day for all parties. It was a large feast of your traditional turkey-day foods. In fact, I have pictures of the food, if anyone wants to see them. Thanks Ryan!

Quincy had such a great time playing with Isaac and Nathan. Plus, he finally got to meet his new cousin, Elizabeth, who he had been talking about all the time.

On Tuesday, we all went to the Strong Children’s Museum. Quincy has been there before, but I believe this visit was his most productive as far as getting a lot out of it. Plus, I got to play the original Pitfall from the Atari 2600. Oh yeah, old school games.

Wednesday was fun for Quincy ’cause he got to go see where Uncle Ryan works and sit in his police car. Dara and I were “locked” in the back while Quincy, Isaac, and Ryan sat up front and got to play with the cool stuff. I have to say, not a lot of creature comforts in the back of those vehicles – not even a cup holder.

We spent Thursday hanging out and had another nice meal all together. Quincy got to log a lot more play time with his cousins before we drove home on Friday.

Quincy skipped every nap except one on this trip too. It didn’t seem to affect him that much. He would sleep in extra in the mornings and he got caught up on the weekend we got back. But it seems like he can go without when necessary. Look for that to be a developing story over time. . .

So, round one of the holiday season went very well for all parties. Next up, Christmas!