Potpourri

This is a collection of pictures of Jack from New Years. We'll start with the pictures of Jack getting naked. He's been getting close to dressing himself in the mornings. He's randomly taken off pants during nap time or even at day care. What can I say? He gets that from his father...hahahah. This particular morning we found Jack wearing no jammies. He was quite proud of himself for stripping down. (I can't believe the diaper was still on.) Then he just got silly and started posing. Who knows where he gets that from!



Next we have pictures from a New Year's Eve party we attended. It was hosted by one of Tom's fellow classmates. It was an "East Coast" party (celebrated at 9pm), totally family oriented. It was fun for Jack, he had a great time running around and playing with the big kids. I really haven't connected with anyone out here yet, other than our neighbor, Laurie, and a few people at work. It's not the same as Schweinfurt! I miss my girls and knitting group in the worst way! But back to the party....All the parents sat and played pictionary while all of their children ran crazy. I really didn't care about that, it was a party after all, but if you see a kid throwing all of the marbles from Hungry, Hungry Hippo at other kids and not do anything about it....that I'm not OK with. It's was weird. We didn't make it until 9pm. That was way past Jack's bed time and I was sick of watching a bunch of kids hurt each other and nothing being done to stop them. I wasn't about to correct other people's children. There's always a fine line with that. So we had fun, Jack had a blast and we headed home around 8:30. You'd think we'd stay up for New Year's...we didn't. We tried but we only lasted until 11pm. :-)
In the pictures you'll notice a red crayon in Jack's hand in EVERY picture. He didn't put that down the whole 2 1/2 hours we were there. Quirky!






Hope everyone started 2009 off well! We miss you all!