Posts Tagged Holiday

Happy New Year!

Jan 4

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2010 is starting busy — we’ve got a 4-tooth extraction for Katherine to schedule, basketball practice is back on for Thomas this week, school starts again, work is hitting the ground running, and I’ve got an interactive fiction work in progress to get moving on.

Also, I got Dragon Age for Christmas from Robin, so I need to squeeze some time in for that as well. Not to mention it’s 2010 already and I’m still waiting for my flying car or jetpack. And the Vancouver Olympics are coming up; gotta record some of the events for Thomas. I’m sure I’m forgetting something in there also.

Speaking of Thomas, he’s really enjoying the gifts he got for Christmas this year. I think the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” books he got are among his favorites, which is pretty cool. It’s very gratifying to see him looking forward to plowing into a book (or, in the case of the “do it yourself” Wimpy Kid book, writing in a book). He also got a ton of building toys — K’Nex, Bionicles, etc. that he’s been having a very good time playing with. Katherine got lots of craft and art gifts, which she really enjoys. Jonathan has a number of new toys that he’s having fun with as well, although some of them will have to wait a month or so before he can really manipulate them well.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year! I’ll do the best I can to keep up with the blogging along with everything else.

Tags: Holiday, Jonathan, Katherine, Thomas

White Christmas

Dec 28

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We normally travel to see family either right before or right after Christmas. This year, however, a combination of a newborn baby and a Christmas morning blizzard consipred to keep us at home. It was bad down here; up north in Missouri and Nebraska it was substantially worse, with the interstate closed between St. Joseph and Nebraska City.

So we stayed home, and actually had a very nice, slow, nuclear-family-focused Christmas. Thomas received Mario and Sonic at the Winter Games from Santa, based on a very last-minute request. Katherine got a Wonder Pets playset that she played with constantly for two days, and Jonathan received a Bumbo seat so that he can sit up with the rest of us during mealtimes and playtime. Since he is almost as social as Thomas was (actually, he may be more so) he really enjoys being able to mug and smile at everyone during dinner.

We took advantage of the heavy snowdrifts and got out to sled on Saturday and Sunday. The kids had a great time sliding down a steep hill near school, and I even got a few runs down the hill myself. All in all, it was a very nice Christmas weekend!

Tags: Holiday, Jonathan, Katherine, Thomas

Night Ranger

Nov 30

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The Thanksgiving trip was pretty good; as good as could be expected, really. Jonathan was awake for significant chunks of the car ride, and when he was up in the car he wasn’t happy, but other than that there weren’t major problems. We got to see both sides of the family — there was a family reunion for Robin’s dad’s side of the family in Weeping Water, which we were able to attend. We then ate dinner with her parents in Lincoln and then traveled to Blair to stay overnight. We ate breakfast and lunch with my folks and then headed home — unfortunately we were not able to see my brother and his family, who were unable to come up while we were at my parents’ house.

Katherine continued her streak of night wakings; it’s now been about a week and a half since she’s actually slept through all night. Things are improving just slightly on that front, however. The last few times I haven’t needed to intervene — she eventually goes back to sleep on her own, but it takes hours in some cases. I’m hoping that she’s retraining herself and that we’ll be out of the woods soon. In the meantime, however, I’m pretty close to the bottom of the barrel on sleep, which is unfortunate as Robin is also.

Tags: Holiday, Jonathan, Katherine, Weekend

Turkey Day

Nov 25

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We’ll be taking the show on the road this Thanksgiving, although given how Katherine and Jonathan have been sleeping, we’re going to keep the overnight stays down to 1.

It will be interesting to see how Jonathan weathers the trip; this will be his first journey of any length. I’ll make sure to post an update when we get back, although it may be Saturday rather than Friday due to travel issues.

Have a good holiday, everyone!

Tags: Holiday, Jonathan, Travel

Halloween Pictures

Nov 13

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We’ve taken a lot of photos recently; here are some from Halloween. Jonathan was a sleeping frog most of the time, although he was a crying frog from time to time as well. Thomas was Jango Fett, and Katherine was a princess (I forget which one). The kids both greatly enjoyed the Halloween festivities at school, which included a parade and the chance to wear costumes all day, and we had a good time trick-or-treating for an hour or so.