Happy New Years 2025!

 New Years Eve

Since this is also special to our family because it is Chris's and my anniversary, I went to pick up sushi as a special dinner while Daddy and the girls made the table all pretty for us. I remember long game nights with friends when I was growing up so I wanted a little bit of that this year. The girls stayed up with us until 10pm, we each picked a board game to play as a family starting with the girls' choices. Then they started drawing a cat play house for some reason while I was putting Adrian to bed so when we started my game they were distracted but Daddy picked Uno so we got to teach them one new game. We got ready for bed and then watched the Times Square ball drop in NYC so we could have a countdown. I almost felt like we should have done something else because I didn't love showing all the crazy people partying, but they were busy coloring on the table and didn't pay attention until about 30 seconds beforehand. Then seeing people kiss reminded me that people actually do that so I kissed Chris and we blew our party horns then sent them to bed!

Parks

Since break started I've been making sure we get out for a walk once a day and finding new parks around the neighborhoods. We are within walking distance and have enough sidewalks for 4 different parks and the girls have been naming them. Starting with 'park we eat at' because of the summer lunches and 'park we don't eat at' which is now 'the workout park'. We now have the 'orange park' where Buttercup tried her first slide but it was huge, the 'slide park' where she wasn't interested because of her past experience, and the 'blue park' where she overcame her fear and had fun going down the slides. We had heavy enough snow on the 1st to stick to the ground which was enough to stop our daily walk, but made a fun day playing in the snow. It was a new experience for both Adrian and Buttercup, but I bundled them up enough and had to handle the aftermath when everyone wanted to bring the snow inside.

More

Finished my first 2000-piece puzzle that I've been wanting to start wince my party when I began sorting the edges and some of the colors. I could never find a surface to do it on until last week and set up the back of a large mirror in my sewing room. I was working on it for so long off and on throughout the week that my family and dog got used to me hiding away and kept finding me in there. Chris may say its an addiction, but only when I have a puzzle that I really like and this one was very fun with all the colors and textures. The girls stole Adrian during one of the meals and it was funny that they wanted him to sit next to them so I had to catch a picture. His favorite meal is breakfast when I do bananas, eggs, and toast because he goggles it up so fast! He also is now really good at holding his own cup and drinking through the straw, I'm pretty sure our weaning is on track but who knows with this little one because when he was sick a week ago I felt like we hadn't made any progress! Now that he is feeling better and sleeping better he its is back to the old schedule and thankfully that means getting the girls to the bus stop on time should be possible.