A Good Nap Day

Yesterday Leo feel asleep while reading; today the same thing! Much better, i think, than me trying so hard.

Warm Inside

Its a cold snowy day here. The predicted high today is 2 degrees. yikes. The entire school district is closed, which seems a little crazy. i mean this is Colorado, northern Colorado. This is not the first time its been below zero--not even the first time this winter!

 

Leo is closing in on eighteen months and is becoming more of a toddler everyday. His vocabularly has increased, but he still likes to demand certain things in his own language. Some of his new words include owl, Alma (his cousin), "out there", water, buckle, open, and "all done".

Yesterday I had a very funny time getting him down for a nap. I had fed him some homemade juice (i rarely ever give him juice) but thought because I had juiced the apples, kiwi and beet myself that it'd be good to get him a quick shot of vitamins. But oh no, i went a little overboard because the 10 or so teaspoons of juice i fed him (feeding him juice like its soup seemed like the way to go) made for an epic nap time. It took me 1.5 hrs to get him down. We read stories, we cuddled, he played peek-a-boo with himself in the mirror, i layed down in bed while he did this crazy routine of yelling some indecipherable words then shaking his head from side to side REALLY fast, then flinging himself backwards onto the bed--over and over and over again. It was a riot and he probably kept going because i was laughing so hard.....

Just another Leo day.

Here are some pics from the last week:

Holiday Recap

Our first blog post!

I look forward to sharing moments from our life with you.

This set of photos was taken during our holiday celebrations--both in Ft Collins, CO and in Norwell, MA.



Our holidays consisted of a Christmas Eve Day celebration at home with just me, Leo and Steve; then onto Denver to celebrate Christmas Eve Night with our friends Christie, Logan, Cher and Logan's parents (and to allow a quick trip to the airport in the morning); then it was off to Boston on the plane with our friends Lucy, Matt and Amariah (so fun to share a 5 hour flight with friends! it made the flight feel MUCH shorter!). Plus, a lovely lady sat in our row and helped with Leo. She let Leo sit on her lap and they flipped through magazines together!

Christmas day was spent at my sister's home with cousins, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles and mimi and poppi (my parents preferred names over "grandma" and "grandpa").

We had a lovely trip home, but missed my brother Greg (whose flight was cancelled from London due to snow)


Love,
Amanda