Happy Christmas!

This year we spent Christmas in upstate NY. We left on the Wednesday before Christmas and had a very pleasant drive. It normally takes about five hours to get there, and the minute we hit the Berkshires it snowed the whole way home! Luckily it was a light snow, and not the normal snow that begins accumulating right away and you have to drive 35 mph and can only see five feet in front of you. Annie is still a pretty great rider. During the whole five hour trip she maybe got a bit ornery for a total of ten minutes?

We were in NY for five non-stop days of food, family and friends. Annie had a great time and Christmas is becoming a lot of fun for her! This year she got a ton of presents, mainly because we didn't get much for her last year. She really liked unwrapping presents and playing with her new toys. I think the biggest hit was the Rody. That's the red donkey/burro-ish toy she's riding.

Annie always plays on it at this store we go to, so we tracked one down for her and gave it to her for Christmas. I thought I was being good by also buying an air pump too to make sure we had a way to blow it up after she unwrapped it. After messing around with for about 20 minutes, I couldn't figure out why the pump seemed to be the wrong size and none of the different sized needles fit. So annoyed. Karen to the rescue. After about 30 seconds she figured out what the problem was and had the Rody blown up in now time. Everybody loved it, and the best part is that the weight limit is 400 lbs! I know, a bit unbelieveable. But there were some people who tried it out and it survived! Now that it's at home, in addition to riding it, Annie has found another purpose for it. Stepping stool. She picks up or drags the Rody where she wants to go, and then pushes it on its side and then uses it to help her reach hard to reach places! Great for her, not so great for us.

Annie also had her first haircut right before Christmas. Her hair is getting pretty curly, which is a big part of the reason she hasn't gotten a haircut sooner, because she had a mullet. But since the back of her was so curly you couldn't really tell that the back was so much longer than the rest, but it was starting to get noticeable so Karen took care of it.