New Year's

The day after Christmas we headed back to our house from Blowing Rock, unpacked the car, packed up the car again and left for Florida to visit my family. It was a long drive and even though David didn't sleep as well as we had hoped, once we put on his CD (Andrew Peterson's Slugs & Bugs - I highly recommend it) he was at least quiet and happy.

We got to my parent's house between 1 and 2 am and went to bed after unloading the car.

While we were there, David had everyone read him his favorite book, Cars.

On Monday, we visited some friends from Raleigh who lie a little over an hour from my parents. It was great to see them again. Here's Lanny and David playing the ukulele.One morning David woke up before we were ready to get up, so I got him out of the pack n' play to let him play for awhile until we were ready to get up. I had to lock the door so he wouldn't wake everyone else up since he learned how to open these doors. He grabbed Lanny's watch and put it on like a bracelet and took Lanny's keys and tried to unlock the door. He is growing up way too fast!!

We celebrated Christmas while we were down there.

David "helped" Parker open some of his gifts. David also enjoyed showing Parker how to play with some of his new presents.

David and Parker did play really well together for the most part. Here David is giving Parker a hug.

We took the boys to the park. I think David has a better time than Parker. He really enjoyed the swing.

We went to Disney on Jan 2. Parker's first time (since birth) and David's second. Parker went last Thanksgiving with us as well, but wasn't yet born.

Here David and Parker are in their strollers on the way to the monorail.

We then took a train, which David really enjoyed.

The boys did really well. They seemed to enjoy themselves for the most part. They even took a nice little nap so we could ride the Aerosmith ride. (My mom volunteered to watch them while we waited in line.)

We broke down and bought a kid leash for David (one of those things I said I would never do) and amazingly he did not fuss about wearing it. It allowed him to walk freely and us to keep him close by. David's favorite part was the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids playground area.