Christmas was wonderful and much quieter than Thanksgiving. T-day's really the big family get together holiday for the King family (my extended fam), so Christmas is always lower key, but this year seemed to be much more so. Maybe because my aunt Debbie & uncle Bob stayed home in Seattle, and my aunt Sylvia & uncle Don stayed home in Corvallis....I don't know, but it was quiet. Garrett really had no interest in opening presents, just in eating the paper after it was off! Well, until Trin handed him a present that made noise, LOL! We had to search, but we finally found a set of wooden blocks, which was one of those classic toys we really wanted to find for the G-man. The set I found is also a shape sorter, which I find even more awesome--I loved my shape sorter as a kid! I took the plastic packaging off the blocks set and put the blocks inside the sorter before wrapping it, so it made a lot of noise--G almost dove off the couch trying to get it! He loves it now that it's unwrapped, too!
Trin's favorite gift of the day? Sounds funny, but I'd swear (without asking her) it's the fashion glasses. No kidding--fashion glasses! They were on her list, and I found a cute pair at Claire's for $5...She's worn them nearly everyday since Christmas--takes them off when she goes to bed at night, and most mornings, she puts them on almost the minute she gets up! It cracks me up, but at the same time, seeing her in them freaks me out--she looks so much older! I have a hard time believing she'll be 9 in April and that she only has 2 more years of elementary school left before she's a middle schooler--yikes!
Oh, I got caught downtown in that snow "storm" a couple weeks ago--that was fun. Waited for 2 hours at my bus stop for a bus, got from 5th & Market to 5th & Broadway in about 40 minutes on that bus, then got stuck behind 2 other stuck buses & sat for another 30 minutes, waiting for my hubby to show up to just drive me home. We wound our way through the West Hills to avoid the parking lots on the main roads & highways, stopped to play Good Samaritan and tow 2 other cars up the hill, dropped off a fellow traveller at her home, and made it home around 9:45....I get off work at 5 and usually am home by 6. It was a loooooonnnng night!
Back on the "kid front": Garrett's 9 months old now, which I can't believe. Has it really been 9 months? He's a crawling master and is pulling up to his knees, which means pulling to stand and then cruising and walking I'm sure aren't far behind--yikes! He fights going to sleep unless he's completely exhausted, which makes for some long evenings. I've started taking him in and lying down in bed with him in a dark room, which works sometimes too well--there have been nights I've fallen asleep there too, LOL! Boy, trying to take his 9 month pictures was fun. He was so focused on the paper that I could barely get his attention on me--of the 14 pics I took, only 2 successfully show the sign and have Garrett actually looking at me--it was so funny! These aren't those 2, btw, but I love them:
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