Welcome...: Valentines Day, Gettin Cozy

As an official family of 5, I thought it would be fun to celebrate our love together with a little family escape to a beautiful place. My mom and dad had given us a gift certificate to the Big Sur River Inn for Christmas last year and Terra coordinated and invited us all to go at the same time.

I didn't expect it to be romantic, just beautiful and cozy.

However, one member of our family had big expectations for a cozy, loving, Valentines Day that I was not aware of.

It started off just fine...

We stopped by the Elephant seals on the way up, and got quite the show! They were fighting, nursing, flopping up and down the beach, breeding, and yelling. They were more active than I have ever seen them! (There was so much..."match making" it seemed quite fitting for Valentines Day.)

We Enjoyed the Big Sur River at our cabin with my sisters,

Then we went out to dinner on the river. Not to be left out, Big D. decided that he wanted to eat the whole time we were eating. Thankfully he is my third baby, so it didn't phase me too much. I enjoyed my seared salmon and wasabi potatoes while nursing the entire time. They were delicious.

After dinner we went back to our cabins, had dessert together and played a game or two. Then we headed off to bed.

This is when things got interesting. I know what you're thinking, Valentines Day night, beautiful scenery, cozy cabin...

Well, you're right. Someone was hopin' to get cozy on Valentines Day.

It wasn't me. It wasn't Ryan. Nope, it was Big D.

Hopin to get cozy ALL. NIGHT. LONG.

Normally, he sleeps pretty well but this night he was uncomfortable and woke up the moment we put him down. He just wanted some sweet lovin'.

(Additionally, we didn't want to let him fuss at all for fear of waking the other two kids.)

So our little man got his Valentines Day love and was held, cuddled, (I) nursed, coddled and rocked non-stop from 10pm till 7 am.

We were captive and he knew it.

His little 4 month old brain knew he could bask in cuddle-glory to his heart's content, and so he did.

I should have seen it comin. He's a lover through and through.

(In his defense, he also had a cold, it could have been because of that ;)

The funny part was when we woke up after sleeping somewhat soundly from 7am to 8am, Ryan and I looked at each other and admitted that we really didn't feel much different than every other morning.

Yep. Tis the season. Baby season.

So off we went, and enjoyed a great breakfast at the Big Sur Bakery,