Holidays

Yeah, I've been a slacker and haven't posted anything about the holidays. . . so here's the rundown. John's work closed from the 22nd until the new year, so we went down to NJ on the 23rd to spend the week down there. Toma was much funner this Christmas than last. We bought her a tricycle and had it sitting out. When we went into the front room that was the first thing she saw and she LOVED it. She climbed onto it and started pushing the buttons (it has turn signals that light up, a horn, and a "radio" button that plays a few songs) Her legs are still a little to short to reach the pedals unless she is all the way up to the front, but she loves playing with it. Also,she turned into a Grandma's girl. She just loves her Grandma Ward. She sat on her lap all Christmas morning and really enjoyed opening her presents. I think she had more fun tearing off the paper than playing with what was inside. But she definitely was spoiled. She got the tricycle, megablocks, puzzles, a truck, a toy vacuum, a train, some stuffed animals, a teaset, books, a bunch of cloths (definitely needed) and some other stuff. Everyone loved spoiling her, I wasn't guilty at all(yeah right) We had a good Christmas too. We got a Wii and have had fun playing with it. John's wanted to get a game system, and I told John it was the only one we could get, and I have to admit that I'm enjoying it too. That was our main present to each other. We also got some Cd's, DVDs and of course, I got a book or two. (YEAH) We also got a fun game from John's parents called the Train Game and we had a lot of fun all playing it. It was good seeing all John's family again. We had Christmas dinner at his Grandparents with all the aunts and uncles. I miss not being close to some family. We came back to MA on the 30th, wanting to miss most of the traffic and the crazy New Year drivers. So we had a quiet New Years at home with another snow storm raging outside. But it was nice. . . that was until John had to go back to work on the 2nd and Toma and I got sick, but you can't have everything perfect I guess.