Here we are enjoying the Zoo Lights at the Phoenix Zoo as a family. It's a fun event every year, and being Phoenix, it's totally fine to spend a few hours outdoors at night. As you can see we still bundled up (ah, how the blood gets thinner when you've been here 7 years), but I like to think it was all in the spirit of the season.
This was a highlight: watching Evan enjoy the wonder of the lights (never mind letting my child blatantly get so close to the wonders of electricity!)
And this I thought was pretty cool: It's the giraffe enclosure. Obviously they were sleeping but what a pretty place to lay your head, if you're a giraffe.
One Sunday evening we went to our favorite local Christmas tree farm (read: the parking lot of Home Depot) to pick out our Horne Family Christmas Tree. Surprisingly those suckers stay alive for a reeeeealllly long time in Arizona - we had our tree up 'til well after the New Year this year. One could state laziness as the reason, but again, I like to chalk it up to keeping the Christmas spirit alive. Evan had a lovely time running around, but stopped short of actually touching any branches. Apparently spiky pine needles don't look like much fun to play with. Maybe next year.
Then one day we got Evan bundled up in his new jacket, for no reason other than to pretend it was winter. He loved it and Mommy got a cute picture. A win-win if you ask me.
Christmas time was fun fun fun with Gramma and Grandpa Charlie in town.
Here is my favorite Christmas picture...
And here's Gramma helping Evan get over his fear of pine needles.
Christmas morning was a hit, but very a 'la toddler. Evan was fascinated and very pleased by his first gift, a push toy from Uncle Jony, but then didn't understand A) that there were more presents to open, and B) why on earth he would want to open another present when the toy he just got from Uncle Jony was the coolest thing ever.
Eventually Gramma convinced him that Thomas the Tank Engine is equally cool and worthy of opening on Christmas morning. Then Grandpa Charlie showed him his new matchbox cars and both were in auto heaven.
And the family by the Christmas tree.
After Christmas we took my Mom and Charlie to the Desert Botanical Garden for the Las Noches de las Luminarias which is a beautiful lantern and musical event they hold every year. The evening was beautiful and enchanting, though at the time marred by my mmm...impatience with Dave, as he neglected to check that the camera batteries (both camera and video camera) were charged before we went. This is the only picture we got of the event. Looking back perhaps I was not at my highest point of joy and forgiveness and grace that night, though to his credit Dave was, and took it in stride. (Seemingly he's seen this side of me before?) In any case two months later I'm over it and can now simply enjoy the pretty picture. :)
The other news of the Christmas season (which everyone who is reading this will likely know by now), is that I had another little present growing by Christmas as well. Which made Christmas actually quite a nauseous day for me, and I couldn't even blame it on rum cake. We had Evan march out in a "Big Brother" t-shirt to announce to news to Mom and Charlie, though they'd already been suspicious (they wondered why I kept refusing wine at dinner) and the news wasn't a big surprise. But baby news is happy news in any case. And my mom did a great job keeping the news a secret for the next couple of months until we were ready to spread the word.
So that's the real instigation for me to get this blog up and running again. I much enjoyed having pregnancy blog for Evan, and far be it from me to start the favoritism early, so I shall make every endeavor to keep pregnancy updates in this blog as well. To that effect, here's me at 5 weeks. Nothing much (nothing at all, actually, except me at baseline), but bigger bellies to come...
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