"Making Memories of Us": Happy New Year!

Happy 2009 everyone! I am 8 weeks old today and Mommy says I am getting SO big! I gave her the gift of soothing myself to sleep in my crib by 10 last night, only got up twice. But when I woke at 5 a.m., I decided I missed out on too much and we needed to play- she obliged and hung out until I passed out again at 8:30. I think she actually worked on my Christmas cards you are all waiting for, so really, I did you all a favor!

Now where did we leave off...

We are on the tube. I look a lot bigger in my 'bear' suit and am still a little messy with the bottle.

I got to see London for the first time when I took Grandma and Grandpa there. Grandma really wanted to tour the Westminster Abbey and Grandpa humored us all by tagging along. I got to take my picture in front of Big Ben and look at the time... we actually got out of the house and were out and about well before 2:00 p.m. - GO Mommy! I was a good girl all day riding around on Grandpa and then he talked to me and made faces with me while we were on the Underground (tube) getting back to our car.

That says 11:10 a.m. (and London is 2 hours from home!)

New Year's was pretty relaxed for us all. I posed for a few last pictures with Grandma and Grandpa and Mommy had some friends stop by. Daddy made some yummy snacks for everyone. They all ate, talked, and watched the craziness in London on t.v. I woke up just in time to ring in the new year and then eventually went back to sleep.

Grandma and`Mommy took the tree down and I got a cool jungle in its place!

We got up really early on the 1st to take Grandma and Grandpa back to the airport. Daddy says that was the least amount of traffic he has ever seen on the motorway. Grandma did really well... only a few tears (in front of us anyway). Mommy reminded her we would come and visit this summer and that I'd be bigger, sleep a lot less, and be more fun to hang out with. (I, on the other hand, think I'm pretty fun right now!)