Sorry Sesame Street Fans!

(Cooper's 2nd tooth made its first appearance at Thanksgiving dinner...right central incisor.)

I'm not kidding. That was the biggest turkey I've ever seen. That sucker was THIRTY pounds. There were 24 there for supper and we barely put a dent in it. I thought about this cartoon all day.

Cooper woke up in the morning and I managed to get him to go back to sleep around seven. I figured another half hour of sleep and I'd be ready to face the day. Oops. We all woke up at about five minutes to nine, so there was no church for me (again!).

Chris went out for coffee with his brother and brought me an FVC and a bagel that I shared with Carter. We hung out and relaxed until I had to get stuff ready to go to Mom & Dad's. I got it in my head that I wanted to make placecards for everyone's place settings. So I prepared a template and printed them all out and cut them out. I made little chipboard turkeys in Photoshop and cut them all out individually. I stuck the little turkeys on the tent cards with a foam pop dot. I am such a nerd. I wanted so badly to finish them I tried to recruit Chris to cut out the turkeys, but he opted to stick the pop dots on the turkeys while I finished cutting them out.

By then it was really time to get my rear in gear. Chris was a big help by bathing Cooper. First time in all his ten months! I prepared the perogies (five dozen) with fried onions and bacon. I toasted the almonds and noodles for the oriental salad and made the dressing. Chris got Carter ready and loaded up the Jeep and Cooper was asleep on the living room floor. I scooped him up along with the last of the luggage and we headed out.

When we got to Mom & Dad's, Mom was a little stressed that the humongous bird wasn't going to be cooked in time for supper. She started cooking it at ten o'clock in the morning! Turned out the cooking thermometer didn't work and everything was fine. The turkey was sooooooooooooo big, Mom used her hugest roasting pan and of course couldn't put the lid on it; she had to use foil wrap. I'm tellin' you, if I don't see Big Bird on Sesame Street next time, I'd believe we ate him for sure!

Everyone brought something. My aunts, Cindy and her family and Pete's family and their parents. There was of course the behemoth bird, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, oriental salad, tossed salad, perogies, buns, broccoli salad, ribs, meatballs, and then there was dessert. Two kinds of fudge, cookies, pies and a mile-high blueberry cheesecake. OMG it was goooooooooood. It was almost an hour after supper before I tackled dessert. Glad I didn't skip it.

We came home just before nine o'clock. Cooper was asleep in his car seat so I brought him in the house in it and let him sleep. Carter was tired too. He's been a little under the weather and was tired out from playing with all the kids.

It was a very cold, blustery day, but it was a great one. I'm so thankful for all my family and all that food on this Thanksgiving day.