100 Happy Days Challenge: Day 81

For Saturday, November 8th

*If you are looking for a new drinking game, please get your beverage of choice ready and take a drink every time I say "Mickey Mouse." You are likely to be too intoxicated to finish reading this post, however. Good luck.*

Today wasn't an awesome day, but I suppose not every day can be. I felt a little cranky, really tired, and more inpatient than normal. Grayson has been doing better than a lot of newborns in terms of night sleep; I'd say I'm averaging about five to five and a half hours of (broken) sleep, but that's up from the three or so I was getting in the first week. In spite of his decent sleeping, I'm still only getting five hours, which obviously isn't really enough for anyone and I'm sure my body is trying desperately to catch up from the lack of sleep last week.

Grayson was fussy for a big chunk of the afternoon and I just never really managed to feel awake today. Today was a mombie day, for sure. In spite of my tiredness and my grouchiness, today had its highlights:

1. My parents came over to visit with and spend time with the boys. It was nice to break up the lazy day with a visit from people who looked awake and alert. I forgot that there were people in the world who look awake during daylight hours. Weird.

2. My Aunt and her family brought over more gifts for both Carter and Grayson. Carter got these Mickey Mouse pajamas. He is obsessed with Mickey Mouse right now and there are days where he will only wear Mickey Mouse clothes (which is a serious problem, because I only have two Mickey Mouse shirts for him). They buy my boys the cutest things. I truly don't care about people buying either of the boys gifts, but the fact that they do and the fact that they are excited to do it makes me feel like they just really love my boys and makes me feel happy and grateful to have this family in my life.

3. My cousin, Nicole, came over today with her man-toy, Levi, to bring the gifts referred to above and she pointed out that I hadn't taken a photo yet of her and Grayson. She's been here a lot helping us out since he's been born, so I've had a thousand opportunities, but my brain is mush and it didn't even cross my mind! Anyway, yesterday, finally, I got some good pictures of her with my newest babe :)