Happy 2012! We had a pleasant, relaxing last few days of 2011, reading books (Shaina), playing video games (Jeff), watching lots of Netflix episodes (all of us), and eating away at that 4lb bag of peanut butter M&Ms that Santa gave us.
While Jeff rang in the new year in the family room and a movie, Jay, Rose, and I snoozed in the new year in our beds. This year is already SUPER for at least 3 reasons:
- Church is now at 9am instead of 1pm (Jay went to nursery all by himself again at last on Sunday!!)
- We got a shiny new car stereo unit and it even has a jack for our mp3 player built in! Our musical possibilities on the road have expanded considerably. *see postscript for details
- And best of all, Rose sprouted a special new consonant-vowel combo that has me dancing for joy. It may be just babbling, but it may be more. I choose to believe the latter.
Of course, Rose has already been saying Dada for a few weeks now. She can point to each family member when we ask her, “where’s ____?” She also has an opinion about everything, and squeals her disapproval if others don’t share her feelings.
My little baby is suddenly sentient!
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P.S. One of the last things that happened in 2011 made us glad to say adios to that year: on the only night all year that we accidentally left our car unlocked, our 7-year-old car stereo was swiped! They left a gaping hole in its place, and another empty spot where my old CD case lived.
Who steals ancient technology and outdated CDs? It was done out of pure malice. Grumble. If someone steals something valuable, I can convince myself that they really needed the money. But when everything stolen is worth about $25 or less, I just get cranky. I also really don’t like the idea of thieves prowling around our street. The thing I’m actually most sad about is that we had disc 9 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the CD player when it was stolen, so now we’re missing a piece of the story!
3 comments:
Rose is definitely not just babbling. It's the best when they learn to say mama and dada. That's horrible about your car stereo! I hate selfish people who don't care about how their actions affect anyone else. Chad leaves the car unlocked all the time and I find myself waking up at night and locking it with my key button thingy through the bedroom window. Well, at least now you have a nice new one, right?
We had someone steal the radio out of our first really old car. Alas, the car was locked so they broke the window to get to it. Unfortunately, the window cost more to replace than the radio did! I understand your pain!
Happy New years to you!! It is so sad what people do sometimeS!! I mean seriously. But I'm glad Santa was good to you to bring a new one!
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