Friday, December 12, 2008

2008_12_12 Friday

We're baaaaaaaaack. The trip to VA was nice. We stayed at Chez Brogan and rate it very highly. I saw Willy and Brent (and randomly bumped into a college friend (Jared) from CT!) during the day, Laura/Holly for dinner, and Liz to pick up baby stuff. Missed Marcy, Mo, Megan -- hmmm, seems like I missed the Ms this trip. That was a bummer.
Jonathan did a great job; he slept for 3.5 hrs on the way home. I was shocked. And, he slept in the pack-n-play as well as can be expected. Both nights were tough (15 mins of crying) to get him down, likely b/c everything was unfamiliar. He's pretty funny in the car these days, pointing out every airplane, biiig truck, truck, bus, train, and car he sees and repeating it until I acknowledge him.
He didn't seem to love Pugsley Porter; I think his licking and excitement scared J2. He did get a kick out of the Brogan black cats, who slept for hours after Jonathan chased them around with cat wands.
I saw the old house. It doesn't look like anything has changed, although they seem to park out front, so I wonder what they're doing with the garage. Otherwise, it sure doesn't look like the town has changed all that much. It was a bummer, too, that the weather wasn't very nice. Otherwise, we would have gone to the park during the day. The rain put a damper on things, though.
We played around a bit today until it was time to get Dave. Poor Jonathan was bundled up as though we were going to face a blizzard. Then again, the kid was warm. We continued with our Advent tradition, and it really seems like Jonathan is starting to pick up counting. He loves "twooo" and "teeeeee" if we give him a "one". And, of course, if he gets a truck as a gift, he goes bizerk!

1 comment:

Leslie said...

New folks in old house haven't totally moved in yet...or perhaps they are remodeling ;-), so they still have boxes in the garage. Or they moved from up north to get out of the ice and snow in balmy VA so they don't need to house their cars.