Winter
Little G turned one!
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He wolfed down the cupcake and would have eaten more if I'd given it to him! |
He mastered the art of getting around - even if he couldn't walk yet.
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| Acrobatics |
We taught him to start contributing around here!
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| Playing with the vacuum |
He had his first plane trip and boat ride when we visited south Florida.
Spring
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| Taking a passport photo. It turned out great! |
In the spring we undertook our biggest adventure yet and went to Paris with Little G for 10 days! The flight was miserable and by the time we arrived, I was ready to permanently relocate to Europe to avoid a return flight. Fortunately, I had 10 days to compose myself and get my mind right about the flight home.
We saw some of the tourist highlights. From the outside. Fortunately, this wasn't our first trip to Paris, because we didn't go inside very many attractions and museums were a no-go. We enjoyed the slow pace, good food and adventure of getting around an old, big city with an almost-toddler. We spent lots of time in parks, taking walks (the Eiffel tower was walking distance to our apartment) and enjoying the neighborhood around our apartment that was a true Parisian family neighborhood. We went further afield a couple of times to take a guided tour in another arrondissment (district), which we loved. We also went to visit a small amusement park that was fun for Little G. We even got to see the finish line for the Paris Marathon and ride the Metro with thousands of marathon participants and their friends and families. It was a special surprise bonus!
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| Eiffel Tower |
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| Double Decker Bus Tour |
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| Crusing Around at Notre Dame |
Summer
Summer found us going to infant swim lessons. Little G was a trooper and after a rocky start he picked up on it and was soon swimming and floating around the pool. We highly recommend ISR for infant swimming and safety training!
We went to the beach a few times and enjoyed spending time with the ladies and Little G enjoyed impressing folks at the pool with his crazy swimming skills. People would literally go get their family to come back and watch him swim. We were a teeny bit proud of him. :)
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| July 4th |
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| My side of the family |
We capped off the summer with a trip to the lake with Big G's side of the family. It was great to have all three cousins together. They were all born within a few months of each other and are old enough now to play together.
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| Bouncing on the bed after bath |
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| Getting in the lake with Sug and A |
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| Big G's side of the family |
Fall
Little G started preschool two morning a week in September. He loves it!
Next on our calendar was a trip to Chicago to spend time with friends!
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| Enjoying the view from our high rise apartment |
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| Baby J - sweetest little heartbreaker! |
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Playing with Baby J |
Next Up... Halloween!
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| Chillin' in the sweet ride at the pumpkin patch! |
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| Our Little Lion |
I was a terrible photographer at Thanksgiving and don't have a picture to show! We had a fun time visiting my side of the family and eating way too much. We have so much to be thankful for!!
Winter
Here is our Christmas card photo from this year:
We celebrated Christmas the weekend before Christmas with my side of the family and then on Christmas Day went to Big G's family. The three cousins were united again!
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| Opening Gifts Christmas Morning at home |
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| P is a Pony! |
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| "Airpane" as G says |
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| Our all-three-babies-in-front-of-the-tree photo |
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| dancing followed |
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| A was feeling the music!! |
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| All the fancy Christmas presents and they find an old bin to play in. |
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| The Aftermath |
As you can see from the last picture, we have some cleaning out and donating to do with the older toys. I'm also going to put away some of the new toys so I can rotate them in later. I've found that Little G plays better with smaller groups of toys. Maybe because he can focus more?
That brings us up to date. Almost.
I have one other bit of news to update. I hope it won't change the way you think about me. Big G and I had a fundamental shift in one of our long-held beliefs this year. Something has happened that we said we would NEVER happen. I'm not proud of it, but I'm working on swallowing my pride and embracing it.
We bought a minivan. Or as I prefer to call it, a car with sliding doors. Shocking, I know. It was a sad day when I parted with my beloved Infiniti sedan for a more sensible mom vehicle. I finally came to the realization that the time in my life for zippy, fun cars is not right now. Right now, I'm in it for the sliding doors and extra back seat leg room for those huge baby car seats. It is the smallest minivan on the market since I wanted to be able to park in the garage and my stall isn't very long. Also, it isn't very cute, but as I said above, I'm working on embracing it.
Here is our little swagger wagon .... please try to contain your envy!
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| Mazda 5 |
Happy New Year!!
1 comment:
Hopefully I will be saying the same thing to in my new wagon.
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