Sunday Family Day with the Koos

My two beautiful girls

Besides the obvious assertion that every day these days is family day, today (Sunday), we spent the day with my sister Joy's family! Margaret had lots of fun with her cousins and her cousins seemed to have much fun poring, patting, loving and otherwise fawning over Margaret.

The morning was actually quiet, with us spending most of it in bed. This made sense, however, as Margaret's schedule last night was slightly off. She was up at 12:30 and demanded to be fed (after an 11:30 feeding). She sucked down nearly 6 ounces of milk and before succumbing to sleep at around 2:00 AM. Then, she was up again at 4:00 am, 6:00 am and 8:00 am. Usually, she goes down at about 11:00, isn't up until 3:00, then wakes again at about 7:00. The extra wake cycle means a lot less sleep (for SAM, mostly), so we stayed in bed a bit extra this morning.


Starting out the day in Mommy's arms

Hanging out with the Koos at the Country Club is always fun and delicious. Sarah and I got to enjoy our burgers in relative leisure as the George and Joy almost fought to hold Margaret.


Gathered 'round the main event

As always, the kids are great with Margaret and simply love to get involved with her care. Here you see them gathered around ready to observe how I change a diaper. This change wound up resembling a surgery with different nephews and nieces assisting during different phases.


The pit crew

After lunch, we all went to Joy and George's house where we all hung out until dinner time. It was a lot like Christmas, actually, with the kids upstairs playing on the computer while the grownups napped at first then hanging out (when Margaret and Sarah weren't feeding).

Margaret did manage to take a nap and let Sarah out to hang with the grownups so that was nice.

After a nice dinner with the fam, we came home to, what else, feed Margaret.

I think that this has been our longest day out so far and I have to say that it seems like it was very successful. Of course, part of the success was due to our ability to make ourselves comfortable at Joy's house, but still, managing to have such a long day out and come home in as good shape as we have is confidence building.


Shot from the fair last week where I sold ALL my games!