I pulled all of these off of Tina’s camera a couple weeks ago and havn’t had time until now to get them all edited and posted.
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Tag: Christmas
Teeth!
Teeth, teeth, and more teeth. Archer was falling a little behind in the teeth department so he decided to catch up. I don’t know why he decided to do it all at once :-). Just before we headed home from our Christmas adventure his second pair of lower incisors broke through. He packed a sugar cookie around all day, periodically nibbling on it to make them feel better. It looks like his upper canines are about to pop through. To top it all off, a couple days ago he was grumping and pointing at the back of his mouth. When I convinced (bribed) him to open his mouth so I could get a better look I found his upper premolars had both broken through. So, once again he is going around and chewing on everything that will fit in his mouth. It has made bed time pretty rough for all of us, too. He was up for three hours past his usual bedtime tonight. Hopefully he’ll want to sleep in tomorrow.
Finally Home
After nearly 600 miles of driving we are finally home. During our trip back from Oak Grove everybody except me slept 95% of the way. At one point everybody, even Silvio, was snoring. A made out like a bandit. We barely had enough room in the van! One more box and I would have had to strap stuff to the top.
We had a really great week. We had Christmas at C’s parents, another at C’s grandmother’s, went out with the Matsons, had another Christmas at my mom’s, and had Sunday dinner at C’s grandmother’s again. It’s a good thing the Matsons wanted to go out. C and I hadn’t done much of anything by ourselves for quite a while and it was really nice to be able to leave A with C’s parents and have a night out. We went to this little restaurant in Westport called One80 that makes an awesome flatbread pizza. When we finally stumbled home at 2 o’clock A was still fast asleep and we had a good night’s sleep.
Between C and Tina, Arch was looked after every morning. I got to sleep in EVERY DAY, once until 2 in the afternoon. Now that I have caught up on sleep I feel like a completely different person. 🙂
Second Christmas
We are almost done with A’s second Christmas. Holidays are always accompanied by a bunch of driving and this one was no different. This time it was home to Oak Grove, Dover, and back to Oak Grove. Tomorrow we’re headed to Hamilton and back and Sunday will be Dover again before we head for home. It has been really nice to see everybody.
A has handled all of it really well so far. He is big enough now that we turned his car seat around and that made a big difference. He really likes being able to see us and looking at everything out the window. He still doesn’t like to ride for more than am hour at a time, though.
I have been thinking about getting a couple tapes for the VCR in the van. I always said I wouldn’t me one of those people who uses movies to entertain their kids on car rides but now I’m willing to give it a shot. A seems to really like watching short cartoons while he eats so we’ll have to see of they work in the car, too.