You and your family and doggies moved in with Grammy and I on November 20. You'll be living with us until late February. Welcome! Ben is sharing a room with Emma; Jack and Molly share their own room. Your Mom & Dad are down the hall. Apple & Ruby are here too! We will have many adventures I'm sure over the next few months.
Every two years, we visit the Portsmouth “Festival of Trees” during the Christmas holidays. Our experience always includes:
1. People, lots and lots of people! It’s always packed; the lines to see the decorated trees are very long and the parking lot is jammed packed.
2. C-C-C-C-old! Its always bone-chilling cold! This year was no exception, for the first time ever we skipped the first house trees because the wait outside was brutally, bone-numbingly freezing. The adults mind it more than the kids!
3. thirteen is a lucky number! It’s always a good time being together, all 13 of us, your family, your cousins, aunt, uncle, grammy and me. Everyone’s in a good mood, taking everything in…enjoying the lights and feeling the spirit of Christmas.
4. Yummy # 1! the free chowder always warms us up, at just the right time.
5. Making a decision! It’s always fun to decide which tree – out of dozens and dozens of decorated trees – is our personal favorite. Once we decide, we take our wooden popsicle “voting stick,” drop it in the container by our chosen tree, and cast our vote. It’s more fun than voting for the President of the United States!
6. Yummy # 2! After an hour or two of tree viewing and bearing the cold, it’s always wonderful to go to the Japanese Steakhouse. The chef cooks our food in front of us, making volcanoes out of stacked onions, lighting surprisingly hot fires and flipping food into our mouths (we try to catch things, but usually don’t).
Hooray for the 2013 Festival of Trees, one of our favorite nights during the holidays!
What a fun afternoon we had today!
You let me hang out with you and we kept busy doing all kinds of cool things including:
the only thing we didn’t do is your current favorite thing… playing with the wooden doll house. You’ve got that covered on most days, often moving it from the edge of the living room to the center. you’re a man on a mission Jack, there’s no stopping you.
one of the things I’ve been noticing lately is how much you look like your brother Ben when he was your age… here’s proof:
