I had completely forgotten to post these – the pictures from Christmas morning with Shorty opening up all his wonderful presents that the whole family bought for him (the perks of being an only child AND only grandchild!) and also the New Year’s Eve celebration that we had at our park group playdate on December 31. Our friend Sonia has a tradition of bringing plastic champagne flutes and non-alcoholic apple cider for all the kids and moms to toast each other and the coming new year. Hopefully we don’t look like a bunch of drunks and give homeschoolers in our neighborhood a bad name. There are also a few pictures of the quiet but extremely fun new year’s celebration we had with my mom and grandma at home!

I hope 2010 is being inordinately kind to all my readers so far.