Yes, it's been too long and mommy's excuse is the same as usual: too. darn. busy. Mommy got a new job after returning from France and it has really eaten up her time. I haven't even been doing my cooking like I was before, ugh! Hopefully I can do better in 2017...for now, let's catch up a bit.
Obviously, we just had Christmas. You loved it so much! We stayed home this year so that Santa could come right to our house. You got many presents and declared, "I must have been really good!" Well, yes, mostly...lately your temper has been getting the best of you more often than before, which we are working on. Even so, Santa must have known that you are good at heart and decided to go with that ;) I think your favorite gift is the Angry Birds play set. You spent most all of the day playing with everything, except the broken gift. You received a play stove that you really wanted to play with; unfortunately, we discovered it was damaged and mommy had to return it to the store where she thinks Santa got it.
After returning the stove, mommy was told that there were no more of that stove to be found, so I came back home, got you, and we went to Toys R Us to pick out a different gift. You chose an Easy Bake Oven and couldn't wait to get home and try it. I think you liked it, even though you didn't eat the less-than-attractive cookies it produced as a first batch. Problem is, you cook with mommy all the time, thus I'm not so sure this was the best idea. We'll see how much you play with it in the coming months...
Today we just got back from a brief trip to Des Moines. We stayed at the Prairie Meadows hotel with Grandma Judy (and Grandpa Roger, who you have started calling "Silly Buddy" lol) and visited mainly with them, but also saw mommy's aunt Diane, uncle John, and cousin Rick. We haven't seen them for a couple of years because of how much trouble it was to travel to everyone with you a couple of years ago. Now that you do better at sleeping in unfamiliar places, we will come back to Des Moines more often and see more relatives.
Other items that have happened that I can think of off the top of my head: you now have a couple of loose teeth (bottom right one is most wiggly, followed by bottom left and top left), you really liked 'sewing' on the machine with mom a while back (you got to press the foot pedal while I directed the fabric), your favorite game on your phone is 'Bad Piggies', you had a sort-of party for your 5th birthday (only a few people were able to come, but it was still fun), you are just over 4 ft tall, you can spell a lot of short words, you can read nearly everything you see, and you nearly broke mommy's nose 2 days before Christmas (it was not intentional at all, you raised your head up too fast while you had your back to me on the bed).
Sunday, we'll be traveling to Nana Linda's to celebrate late Christmas with her and give daddy some alone time to de-stress (mommy and daddy's Christmas break dates didn't match up this year :(( ) I will do my best to write more again soon, I swear! Love you lots, mommy.
