Day 97: Happy New Year!

January 1, 2011

A new year.  Fraser and I actually made it up till midnight last night. Our mistake. We're tired today. And Jacob woke up at 6! I guess he's excited about the new year too. We'll see where this year takes us. We had no idea at the start of last year that we'd be in Portland by the year's end. Hopefully, this new year will be full of wonderful happenings and happy adventures. 

One of the gifts we ordered for Jacob didn't come by Christmas, so we told him Santa just found it in his sleigh and left it for him last night. It's a marble track. Now, I know what some of you are thinking: choking hazard! BUT.... we are supervising our child and he's not one to put things in his mouth (not that I'm relying on that, it just helps). He is obsessed. He played with it non-stop for an hour, had a diaper change and continued afterwards for another two hours. The only interruptions he had was to talk to me about the ornaments I was taking off the tree and for us to try and get him to eat something. Wow.


I headed off to pilates, feeling a little under the weather due to my intake of champagne. And our instructor worked us hard today. We did a circuit with six different exercises for each go round. We went around four times. Yea, I felt like hurling after the class. It subsided within a half hour, thankfully. Happy new year, alright. 

After nap, back to the marbles. All afternoon. No joke. That's all he wanted to do. 
"Marbles in dere. Down dere. In dere. Out dere," he said as he pointed to the marble's route. We could just see his little neurons making connections and the wrinkle being imprinted on his brain. So cool. We skyped with Uncle Nick and showed him the marble track. Fancier than the ones he and Uncle Jeff used to make when they were younger; they used toilet paper tubes, pvc pipe, tape. But hey, it worked and provided hours of entertainment.