Happy New Year to all.
We had a really nice holiday season, both Christmas and New Year's. On Christmas we stayed at home all day and had a quiet family day. Gavin was so excited about Christmas this year. I don't think he really understood why he was excited in the days leading up to Christmas, but he was. Then on Christmas morning, instead of being freaked out by the appearance of presents under the tree, like last year (we guess that he was scared at the idea of a strange man - Santa - coming into the house), he was overjoyed.
Dermot naturally didn't care a whole lot about Christmas. He was curious about the tree after we put it up, but after a few times of us saying no when he would touch the ornaments or the tree, he mostly leaves it alone now. That, as a side note, is a truly amazing, mind-blowing thing. Gavin was (is!) determined and wouldn't stop doing something just because we tell him no. Even as a baby, he would forge ahead with passion and play with the tree (or whatever) despite our admonitions. Jason and I expected that from Dermot also, but he is so different. He would crawl up the tree and point to it, or touch just the tip of a branch and look at me and shake his head. I'd shake my head and say "that's right, no touch", then he would shake his head again. We'd go through this a couple times, but he never did much more than that, and eventually he just left it alone. So. freaking. crazy.
Today we're going to celebrate Christmas with my family, since we didn't do it last week. Everyone is coming over this afternoon and we'll exchange presents and have our traditional New Year's dinner of bratwurst and knackwurst, black eyed peas, & sauerkraut. We almost had a black-eyed pea-less dinner. I couldn't find any at the store a few days ago when I went shopping for today's dinner, and last night we had to go to two grocery stores to find any. We found so many people in the bean aisle looking forlornly at the empty black eyed pea shelves.
Posted by allison at January 1, 2008 11:16 AM