Hey there Peanut Butter –

Happy New Year!

As I get ready to climb into bed to get ready for a busy day tomorrow with work and school resuming, I think back to the amazing break we just had!
* good hanging out time
* making a gum drop wreath – started by you & Kate and finished me you and me.
* Swimming at the YMCA
* Mama & Maya’s venture to get our first, annual Maya-sized tree – in the POURING RAIN!
* Christmas with Jo Ann one night with her homemade pasta

* The Christmas Carol at the Geva Theatre with Siobhan and Kate
* Christmas with all 5 of us when Daddy Jim told the Christmas Story, we slowly opened and appreciated presents and then watch Santa Claus 2.
* You went to Las Vegas with your Dad for your Great Grandma’s 95th birthday…while there, you saw the Blue Man Group
* The five of us went to Great Wolf Lodge for New Year’s Eve and had a BALL! We swam hard, danced, hard, ate yummy food, experienced a ceiling full of balloons falling on our head with fake snow, stayed up until midnight to watch the ball drop… you and Daniel wrestled a lot in the water – laughing a lot!

We missed Macy a lot this Christmas…You would like a new dog, but we haven’t figured that out yet. Soon I think.

And YOU – you are just becoming the most amazing little person ever:
* You notice others around you and try to help them.
* You are wittier than anything – I am constantly surprised by your ability to make me laugh a real, hearty tummy laugh when you surprise me with some quick retort.
* You still LOOOVE to be nakedy – like, really naked – all the time (note that it is winter and cold as I’m writing this.)
* You know so many of the words to songs on the radio, and you already have a sense of what is in or cool or legit or whatever they’re saying these days.
* You think I’m weird, but it is clear that you appreciate this weirdness. You remind me, “Remember Mama, strange is good.” 🙂
* You still say Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama? …
* Daddy Jim, you and I love Junie B Jones – We laugh so much when we read it. You bought Daddy Jim a boxed set for Christmas which surprised him and made him very happy.
* You’ve lost one tooth with another wiggling next to it.
* You are reading and writing (though not confidently yet).
* Still a confident rock star with respect to art:

I’m headed to bed – I will add fun pictures to this post soon. I love you my sweet pea! I love being your Mama!
Mama