Happy Holidays!

 
 
 
Hey there, it's me Lars! Thought I would share a picture of Mama playing MY new toy. We both really like it. Then there are some cute ones of me. Who doesn't need cute Lars pictures on a regular basis?

snow snow snow

Larsy left Perkins at 12:30 & isn't home yet. It's 4:10. Roads are really really bad & it took me 2 hours to get home from Worcester, but this is ridiculous. We've been in contact with the van & they say they're inching along. Sigh.

p.s. Lars got home about five minutes after I posted the above. Such a long ride.

a growin' boy

Lars has grown 8 cm and gained 5 pounds since June. He measured today at 108 cm, that's 42 1/2 inches, which is 3 1/2 feet + a 1/2 inch. He's 40 pounds.

Here's a link to the car seat we're trying to get insurance to pay for. The little prince'll be ridin' in style.

Thanksgiving

Lars had a wonderful Thanksgiving, with Cary, John, Tucker & Zane here from Vermont from Wednesday to Friday, and Mommy visiting every day. Lots of sound & energy & music & wonderful smells, and although he didn't partake in dinner at the time, he has enjoyed some leftovers.

Spent Mama's birthday with Lars' Godparents Lisa & John & their birthday boy Griffin, and friend Rocky. Quite lovely. Next morning visited Denise & Kali & went with Kali to the Mapparium. Wow, what a place! If you haven't been there, it's a three-story, stained glass globe in the Mary Baker Eddy Library, in what's known as the "Mother Church"- the huge Christian Science church downtown Boston. It's stunning visually,

but for Lars the acoustic properties were of course more interesting. Glass completely reflects sound. If two people stand at each end of the 30-foot bridge, with their backs toward each other, they can whisper to each other and be heard as if they were standing side by side. And if you stand in the very middle and make sound, it reflects back to you from every direction. It's quite amazing. (No photography allowed inside, so I nabbed those photos off their website.)

Note from last Wednesday in Lars' preschool book: "Lars beat the conga today on his own!! Very exciting--we had a blast. He needed repeated guiding to find the drum--but once he did he beat with both hands repeatedly! Yahoo! Jill" Wheee & yeah for music therapy. Lars is so blessed to be able to work with Jill.

Could definitely tell this was Lars' first fall out of the house & with other kids: he got one sickness after another, with no breaks in between. Happily (knock on wood) he's been well for several weeks now. I was gone for six days at a conference the week before last, and Lars & I had an incredibly joyful reunion when I returned. Having never been away from him, that was challenging. And wonderful. Michelle & Andey took extra good care of him, and of course he had his fantastic Perkins Preschool crew. Reports are he mostly did well, although a bit grumpy and out-of-sorts toward the end.

Here's to staying well through the holiday season. Cheers.

more trampoline

trampoline arrives

Several weeks ago we got a 14' trampoline for free from the local freecycle network! It happened to be a neighbor giving it away. I wish I had photos of us seven adults carrying it down Mechanic Street, around the corner and up Ash street. We stopped traffic. The boys both absolutely love it.

apple picking...feeling...frolicking...

Nice leaves, smooth apples.
Great hills to roll down, too.

Halloween

Lars had a fever & couldn't go out, but was still the cutest little skeleton in town. And jolly, too. Joa as bat-biting Ozzy Osbourne. For his school halloween dance, he died his hair black, too. Mommy dons the wig Joa rejected.

missing Halloween :(

Little Larsy is sick. Still? Again? Hard to tell. He had a touch of pneumonia, went on a 10-day round of anti-biotics, and then right when he got off he spiked a fever & threw up 15 times in a night (Saturday night). He's been home from school all week, and last night was up to 104°. I got it down to 100° with tylenol & a cool bath. We'll see how he feels today.

It's very sad to miss Halloween @ Perkins! Such a sensory experience. Sigh.