Thankful on Thanksgiving

Today's episode of The Crosby Show is brought to you by The Pater Familias aka Babydaddy aka Lance. So excited that he agreed to write this one and hope he will agree to more (full disclosure: he actually wrote Episode 1, but since I edited it, I ended up taking credit for it. Shame on me!).

Ok...so i may have had a hand in the first one, but yes..shame on you!  

I struggled to kind of get this thing started because I kept thinking of 100 different things to say but 0 ways to say them. All the things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving were running together with the things I'll be thankful for in the future.  So, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone from The Crosby Show!  I also kept reading Carmen's other posts.  I've enjoyed her documenting these times and events in our lives.  We both own the fact that we are terrible picture takers.  We crammed a last minute photo session in the day we left from our Honeymoon.  When we got married, the wedding director wouldn't let our photographer <free plug Cauley Photography!> take pictures at the ceremony.  Our neighbor had to give us a picture of our own house during the snow storm last Christmas. I enjoy reading Carmen's entries as much as everyone else. I'm a watcher and a soaker-inner kind of person.  If that's a real thing. And, I like to tell stories the way I remember them... pictures sometimes don't tell the story right for me. It just never seems quit right. So I rely on her for that and she's the perfect person for the job.  She's good people, and Crosby and I are very thankful to have her in our lives. 

Crosby aka Prince aka His Royal Highness has had a full week this week. It started with a tough loss to Mississippi State in Little Rock, then Brandon Allen's truck got egged, then they took a game away from Little Rock till 2018, and finished up with an explosive diaper and 5 shots at his two-month checkup.  So maybe a few of those made it a tough week for his Dad, too.  Despite all the tough things, he continues to, in the words of Robert Randolph... Press On!  He's almost 12 pounds and a little over 23" long.  He took the shots like a champ, but still put up a fight during his morning BOP session.  You win some, you lose some. We're still winning more than losing and that's always okay.  Well, more than okay... its great!  He continues to get more vocal with us and even last night went a verse or two with Momma in the Sound of Music.

  

What I lack for in pictures I more than make up for in memories.  Whenever I need it, or want a picture, I just go and get it, just the way I remembered it.  It doesn't matter if it's a person or an event. It's an experience, and having him has been the ultimate.  It's a pretty cool feeling to know you made another half of you.  Watching him change and grow from day to day, week to week, has been a blessing!  So on  this Thanksgiving, I really am happy for everything.  I'm thankful for people, places, dogs, poops, 21 minutes of bopping without crying, having 20 minutes to eat dinner together with my beautiful wife. I'm thankful for family, friends, and everything in between. I'm also reflecting on those who are with us in spirit.  So soak up this time you have over the Holiday.  Make some memories and save them however you save them.  They're yours after all.         

-Lance