So you know what we did for fun the night before New Year's Eve? We watched "2012" on our schmancy pancy new Blu-ray (don't worry, it's not too fancy: we got one of the cheapest ones with good reviews we could find, but Jeremy's definitely been wanting one almost since they came out). You know, the fun disaster movie where the world is like 80% destroyed. I've seen it before, but it was SO intense pretty much the whole movie. And it left me feeling unsettled, thinking about how the world is supposed to end in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar. Even though I don't believe it, all I could think was, "I am so not ready for the world to end. I need to be better, etc...) So when I saw this cartoon, I felt much better:
It's the little things that reassure us and make us see how silly our little fears can be, I guess.
Anyway, getting away from my silliness... We had a fun time on New Year's Eve. We had our friends, the Christensens, come over and we ate not-so-good-for-us food, watched part of Despicable Me (until the kids went to bed) and then played games for a few hours. It was so fun to do that again; games get so much more complicated when you put little kids and bedtimes into the pictures. Thankfully, their baby went to sleep in our pack-n-play like a champ, and we got to enjoy some adult time.
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| Katy watching the movie |
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| Must have been an exciting part! |
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| Between our projector and the blu-ray, who needs to go to the theater? |
We wrapped up that "party" at about 10, because we were all tired. Jeremy and I debated staying up or going to bed, and I had finally decided we should just go to bed, because I was falling asleep on the couch anyway, when Katy woke up. I'm so over teething. I'm ordering our next baby with at least 6-8 teeth already in. She was up from about 11 to 12:30, and I was not impressed to be "ringing in the New Year" with my 18-month-old. I may or may not have been a grump at this point. Thankfully, we were able to sleep in -some- the next morning, even though our church block switched to 9 AM. Here are our cuties on New Year's Day on our way to church!
Jeremy's going to be fairly busy this month, and even on a few of the weekends, so we enjoyed our Saturday yesterday. We went to the Lynnhaven mall in Virginia Beach and used Jaina's birthday coupon for free carousel rides. After that, we randomly decided to go down to the boardwalk in Virginia Beach, and we spent probably an hour there, walking (and running) along the boardwalk.
After that we made a quick run to Trader Joe's, and then went home. Poor Katy was about an hour past her naptime already - she could conceivably still be taking two naps a day (she's usually tired an hour or two before I put her down) so she doesn't do well with us pushing her naptime much. Thankfully she was able to take a nap and didn't sleep too late. It was worth it to go do some fun things together!
We had a nice day yesterday and everyone went to bed fairly easily. Jeremy has been putting them to bed more often lately, especially as he helps me get over to our complex's exercise room most nights as I try to re-establish some healthy living habits... They seem to be doing well with the daddy-bedtime thing. Yay!
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| When Daddy does pajamas, this is usually what Katy ends up in. I just can't figure out why it's his favorite... ;-) Isn't she cute? |
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Sounds like a fun weekend and a fun new year's!
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