TODDLER TUESDAY AT MOA

This was fun: we went to Toddler Tuesday at the MOA! And rode the rides until we were so tired we barely made it to the exit, into the car and back to my house for nap time. I loved watching you work your way up and down the escalators. You are so good at it but I am still nervous about you doing it alone. So let's still hold hands even though I know you dont really want to do that. Christmas is sneaking up on us and your Mommy is sick right now. I hope everyone will be better in time to get together for celebration snacking and tv and reading books, playing games, snowshoeing if it is warm enough and being together. I loved taking you to Hard Rock Cafe for lunch on Toddler Tuesday. What a lot of crabby kids needing a nap! What a huge, elaborate American Girl store!

END OF NOVEMBER 2016

Darling JJ,
I had so much fun with you today! We found a big bin of old toys from your Daddy's childhood and you loved this chain you are wearing in the photo.  That is an old hat of Maggie's, bought in Emerald Lake when she went cross country skiing with your Daddy. He was just about you age when he first got on cross country skis and he loved it. H always liked doing sports-y things when he was growing up, and he still does but he doesn't have as much time to do it. I hope you have lots of time to do all the climbing and jumping and running that YOU love to do. I hate saying"be careful" to you so much of the time, but seriously: you are so creative and clever in figuring how to get what you want and not afraid to take serious risks to try new things. Maggie wants to buy all the children's books by her favorite movie maker, Spike Lee. And the illustrations are amazing, so I hope you love them. And I also put trains on the list of things to do because you have been very interested in them recently. The solstice is coming and bringing with it all kinds of ways to celebrate the movement into the light. Food, fires, trees, lights, pretty clothes. Toys and toys and toys.....But for now, lets concentrate on snuggling, cozy and warm, and reading, drawing, drinking tea. Love from Nana. (See you soon)