Daddy Day Care

As most of you know, Nick is in landscaping...which usually means LOTS of snowplowing in the winter. Not this year! We have not had the snowfall we usually get, so he has been home a lot more than usual. Which means we get to save a little $ on daycare (Willa still goes 3 days a week for consistency's sake), AND he gets stuff done around the house! Win, win!

On Thursday, Willa decided that she didn't need an afternoon nap. I work from home in the afternoons, so it was up to Nick to entertain her. He decided he needed some chocolate cake, so he pulled a mix from the cupboard and the two of them went to work baking.

Tonight's activity was paper pirate hats!

I know he's ready to get back to working regular hours again, and we're ALL ready for spring so we can get out of the house, but this has been a lot of fun!

Christmas 09...one month late!

Yes, I'm a huge blog slacker.

Anyway, Christmas! I will try to remember what we did. We made the trip home in about 8 hours. It definitely takes longer when you have a little one, but I think we could've done worse! Willa did GREAT on the trip. We only had one meltdown on the way there, I think she cried for about 15 minutes but that was the only incident. By the time we got there she was definitely ready to be out of her carseat. We went to Christmas Eve church that night and had another meltdown on the way home. It was just too much carseat time! Fortunately, after a good night's rest, Willa pulled it together and had a wonderful long weekend, being passed around and spoiled!

We had 4 Christmas celebrations to squeeze in, running here and there visiting people...it gets to be so much! We did manage to get away and hang out with a big group of friends, and I'm so glad! I think we are going to make that an annual thing.

Anyway, here are some pictures. Willa got to play with her cousins Cole and Aubrey and learned to sit up on her own over the holiday. She's a pro these days, but it was big news just a month ago!