And a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We've been having a hard time accepting the fact that Christmas is over and that we don't get to see Santa again for another year. Despite singing Christmas songs over and over and over, we've learned to let Christmas go. Instead, we're celebrating the next big occasion - New Years.

A new year means lots of things - we'll each be another year older. And when you have growing boys, there's always a lot of cleaning and shuffling around to do. We did that a lot this week. Sam had finally outgrown his crib and I was getting pretty big for a small toddler bed. So the parents finally broke down and moved us each up to bigger beds. That of course meant total room cleaning and reorganizing!

But it was all worth it - check out our new rooms. Here's mine:

And here is Sam's:

After mom cleaned out my closet, she found this super cool bed tent that they had for my new twin size bed. We love it!Sam and I both napped in the tent the other afternoon.
After that huge cleaning job was finished up, we did find some other fun things to do. Here we are practicing tying shoes with daddy - let it be noted that both Sam and I prefer velcro!We also took a trip to one of our most favorite places - the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point.

Here we are playing with the dinos.We got to spend some quality time at the water/sand tables. It helps if you have a daddy who's willing to hold you up the entire time so that you can avoid the raised but really crowded area of the table.I'm tall enough that I could reach in on my own, even without being in the raised area. Here's our baby Triceratops - we always have our picture taken here.

And if daddy is with us, we like getting a lift up to see the T-Rexs up close and personal.Sam forgot how big they are so close up. He was just a bit nervous.And another of our favorite dinos - the big Triceratops.We spent a fun New Year's Eve having Uncle Noley and Aunt Christy over for soup and games. They brought their Loopin Louie game with them - SOOOO much fun!

We played Uno Moo, and Gone Fishing. The games made the night fly by.

Before we knew it, it was New Years. Of course, we celebrated on Halifax (Nova Scotia) time so our "midnight" was really 9:00 p.m local time. What we don't know doesn't hurt us!Some party hats and noise makers really add to the fun!Uncle Noley took care of reading time duty and we were off to bed - Sam in his party hat and all.

Other than that, some good playing around the house kept us mostly out of trouble. Have a great week everyone.Sam Alert: Howdy y'all. Enjoy some cute pictures of me from this week. First up - me marching around at the stroke of "midnight".And me playing Loopin Louie - I think I may have won every game we played - at least in my own little way. See you next week.