Snap, Crackle, Pop

This morning Noah discovered that his Rice Krispy cereal 'talks' to him. He spent the morning listening to it, and occassionally talking back. The smart little kid also grabbed himself a cutting board and a knife so that he could cut up his banana like Mommy and put it on his cereal.

Dinosaur Museum!

We've been wanting to take Noah back to the dinosaur museum for quite a while now. He hasn't been since he was really little, and we thought that he'd enjoy it more now. All day long we were talking about going, and he was really excited. It helps that there's an episode of Caillou where they go to a dinosaur museum, and Noah is currently obsessed with that show.

Zander and I tried really hard to get him to care about the dinosaurs, and fossils, and to read some of the plaques for ourselves, but he just didn't really care much about them. He did however love the displays and activities that were aimed towards his age group.

Lots of food and friends

The 'girls' all convened again today for lunch. Honestly this is one of the happiest things for me. Me and my childhood friends have started getting together every couple of weeks for a fun afternoon out, and it's a BLAST! There's a good amount of time spent catching up on what's been going on in each other's lives, talking about random pointless things, and lots and lots of random OLD memories come up as well. Today we had Emily, Ashley, Kristi, Catherine and me all having lunch together at La Jolla Groves down in the Riverwoods. Fantatsic food, good friends, great time.

I got all of the ornaments off of the Christmas tree this morning, except that I left the angel on top because I couldn't reach it. Noah didn't' like that I left her up there and asked me to take it down. I explained that I couldn't reach it because I'm too short, so he went and got a chair for me.......

Noah's Fortune

This was Noah's fortune tonight:

You will be a great success - both in business and social situations.

How's that for a fantastic fortune to get?

New Years

We've never been really big on celebrating the New Year holiday. It's kind of silly really. So as our own tradition mandates, we kept it fairly simple this year. New Years day we had a nice, lazy day, then had my parents over for dinner. We had salmon with teriyaki and macadamia nuts, lemon rice, and a salad. Not to toot my own cooking horn, but it was FANTASTIC! We spent the rest of the evening playing games, and being entertained by the kiddos.

Did I mention that Kaiden is crawling? Crazy kid.

Christmas!!!

Christmas morning we did the usual present opening thing. Noah wasn't really sure how he felt about it at first, but then he really got into it. The tent that Santa gave him was a little scary for a minute, until he figured out that it was his, and he got to keep it and play in it. Then we couldn't get him out of it to open anything else! Grandma and Papa Patterson joined us for the morning, since their house was in pieces. It was a lot of fun to have them with us! They stayed for breakfast, games, and overall Christmas morning fun.


Later in the day all the Patterson's got together for lunch. Since the parents house wasn't exactly a suitable venue for a dinner, we all went over to Mi Ranchito. Always a good place for eating!