January 2nd

You and Steph had a great night's sleep.  I know this because I watched the entire sleep.  I'm glad you two were comfy.  Ahem.  Moving on...

We were pretty well snowed in today.  We colored and played with trucks...You tucked me in with pieces from all of the toys that you have - very comfy.  We napped, and we watched an absurd amount of Barney goes to the Fire Hall...and ate an absurd amount of veggie hotdogs.  But Honey, an absurd amount.  Steph went to go pick Nana up from work and you decided that we were going outside.  I decided that we weren't, but then you convinced me (by continuing try to put on your shoes for long enough that I couldn't find within me a legitimately good reason to not let you out to play with the snow.  It being 2 degrees would have been a real reason, but I didn't know that it was 2 degrees until after we came back inside.  We went for a walk just like you requested, and you got stuck in snow a few times which freaked you out until I did it too.  That was fun, Kiddo, I'm glad you inspired it.  

You also requested ice cream (because why wouldn't blizzard like weather inspire ice cream cravings) and M&Ms...we're on vacation, again there wasn't any real good reason not to indulge...Minus that we were up pretty late with you scream-singing "twinkle twinkle."  I'll take it :)

January 1st - Happy New Year!!

All tucked in and in barely a different position than you were in last year... Ah hah hah...I'm a funny Mama...

We woke up and slowly packed ourselves, cuddled a little, saw a garbage truck (!!) and said goodbye to the Arlington contingent.  I hope we're all gonna stay in good contact with each other, you three boys have been inseparable since we got up here.  Sigh. 

We got in the car and headed up to Exeter to spend a few days with Nana and Aunt Vanessa, but first we stopped off at Air Zone for a few hours to play with Arielle and Joey!  That place is intensely exhausting, but well worth it.  The drops on the slides were insane, Man!  They were like seventy degree angles!  Do you know that I'm not all that confident a slider?  One of many times I'll suck up being anxious so that you don't learn my random anxieties I'm sure, but seriously, these things were almost straight up and down!  You and Joey got along famously, and Arielle and I did also... I want Ro and Dolly to come up and have a play date with Arielle and Joey and us!

Upon entry to Nana and Vanessa's, you and Steph put together a Lego Tow Truck.  Sometimes a little internal upset can be solved by creating trucks out of Legos...it's a good life lesson she's teaching you. 

We ran to Target to ready ourselves for a potential blizzard, and you were so excited to be in the snow... Just wait, Man... just wait...