December

Our vacation was absolutely amazing... all the way up until the 8 hour car ride on Sunday that ended with only having gone 100 miles and 3 sick Delafields. We had to pull over and get a hotel for the night before driving the last 7 hours or so, but thankfully we made it with no traffic on Monday.

Moving backward, we started out our trip at Christy's and had a great time. We walked from her place to the Smithsonian and checked out their American History Museum. We also enjoyed some good times playing darts and generally watching Steve and Will duel it out. Max, their cat, was rather perturbed with the arrival of a miniature human being to the mix, but Johnny had a wonderful stay at his aunt's.

From there we moved on to Boone and despite the general illness that passed through most of us during our stay, we had a great visit. It was so good to see Leta, John and Catherine. They all spoiled Johnny rotten (we've had to spend all of our time since convincing him that he can not expect to be picked up and play with every single time he cries) and were all sad to see him go at the end of the week. I really wish we lived closer to them, I wouldn't mind relocating to Boone. Too bad Catherine seems set on staying in Colorado... I was hoping to convince her to move back to State College!

Now December has come and the focus has turned from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Though Johnny enjoyed his pumpkin pie and the likes, sugar cookies and gingerbread will be a welcome snack as well. Tomorrow is my dad's birthday and we plan on getting our tree and decorating it then in keeping with our normal family tradition. I'm interested to see how Johnny reacts to the tree, he loved Leta's with all of it's lights.

Now if only we could just order his Christmas present...