Trees of Light!

This morning our buddy IR came over with a present for Peanut to open! Which was great, otherwise I was going to wrap a not so often seen toy just to give him some practice ;) She brought a neat flap train book for him, he's already flipping through it solo looking for teddy bears in the flaps.

We went outside and played in the snow/shoveled a bit. Went for a sledride around the house. We ate a lot of fruit, finished up the banana bread, and he had to go down for his nap early. He slept ok last night... he woke up around midnight and 130, then up for the day an hour+ early at 7. Poor Daddy's turn to get up with him too. But he took his nap well at least.

He got up, ran around the house, we played with the playdoh some, he helped me feed the cats. We neglected to go to the library, but we'll do that on our way to Gma's tomorrow. Our big event of the day was to drive down to a place about an hour away for dinner and a light display. Dinner was a hot mess, Peanut wouldn't sit still, he wouldn't eat or drink, of course I didn't pack a toy or something to distract him, he ended up tipping his chair over and crying on my lap for a really really long time. Sighs. He's just been off his rocker and crying a ton lately. Darn good thing he's cute!

But we left in good spirits and headed for the lights. We all loved them, the kids gazed around in wonder, and I'm sure never would have wanted to leave if it wasn't so chilly (~20 degrees, bundled up like penguins). But he broke down at the end, his fingers were getting cold (he needs to make fewer snowballs, his mittens only work so well!) So we rushed him into the car and took off. I sat back there with him, as it took a block or two for the tears to die down.

But then we saw a train... then a light train. He was happy, and then he spent a good deal of time counting my fingers. Sometimes he'd miss one and I'd have four, or keep on counting and I'd have eight :)


We got home, had a snack, then read a bunch of books, including our new book, a Quiet book, a color book, Moo Baa Lalala... yeah. But it was 835 then and I sent the boys packing for bathtime. Then we read our Santa book, Noisy Train, and Happy Hippo, Angry Duck. I'm really not sure how much longer the gate will work, he gets halfway over and stops. As long as he doesn't feel safe climbing all the way over... but I feel like soon we're going to play the, walk back to your room game. That or get something so he can't open his door, but that's not a long term solution, that's just a fire hazard. Sigh. But he's asleep now, and my phone is done dumping pictures, so time to turn it into a flashlight and check on him and his covers.

He was sleepining cozily, pulled the blankets from under him and covered him up. We're going to go watch a movie now, maybe make some hot cocoa as I glare at him and his freshly made gluten filled cookies <3