2009_01_06 Tuesday

Oh boy is Mom unhappy. Jonathan was up from about 3:30 on this morning, and so was mommy. Luckily, he would fall back asleep on occassion, but I sure did not. Dave and I just about high-fived when he got up as I was getting back in bed to let Jonathan cry it out for the remainder of the morning. I fear today.

After breakfast of blueberry pancakes, yogurt, and an orange, we headed out to the local zoo. It's chilly out but not uncomfortable. We were the only guests at the zoo! we had the whole place to ourselves. He had a great time wandering in the reptile house, watching the frogs, snakes, and turtles. Many of the animals were inside, but we still saw elk, wolf, bison, the entire farm, llamas, sea otters, ducks and geese, and some birds of prey. Good enough for me. Jonathan actually walked/ran 90% of the zoo himself. So, as soon as we got home, he was off to a nice, long nap.

I managed to take down our Christmas tree...well, at least the ornaments. The ornaments are even stored in labeled boxes in the basement! The tree is now wrapped in a huge bag and ready to be lugged outside.

Jonathan had a fantastic linner: chicken nuggets, fish sticks, sausages, strawberries, teriaky veggies, and milk. what a champion. Then we played with the new shape sorter and the new truck puzzle. They are both proving to be good purchases (or gifts from Julia); they've kept his attention for a loooong time!

We got packed up in a new snowsuit (thanks to Bobby), wrapped in mommy's scarf, seatbelted in the wagon (thanks to Grandma Cathy) with a cozy blanket, and by the time we got 1/3 of the way to pick up Dave, it started raining/hailing, so we had to turn around. what a letdown!!! Dave's home safe and sound after twisting his ankle, trying to catch the train.