So Christmas was great. Sophia got a lot of fun toys from Santa! She had fun with the bows and had her siblings to help her open her presents. We definitely had a white Christmas! Bing Crosby wouldn't have known what hit him! We were quite worried that we wouldn't be able to get out of our driveway for San Diego on the 27th, but luckily, thanks to my poor husband who had shoveled the driveway 5 times prior, we got out!
The flight down was great, Sophia is always a pretty good traveler when it comes to airplanes, thankfully! She seems to make "friends" on the plane rides too. Always checking out who is sitting around her, makes eye contact and gives them huge smiles. She seems to win over their hearts. Such a ham and social butterfly we have! She had a nice nap on the way down and up...and had fun playing with the curtain that covers us from the first class cabin. You can see in some of the pics, its adorable!
New Years was pretty laid back at our condo. Mommy fell asleep at 830pm with Sophia! Big party people we were! But, I must admit, I felt pretty good from all the sleep the next morning! I woke to the sound of fireworks at midnight. Since our condo is downtown San Diego, there were lots of hotels, etc celebrating the new year. Whispered a little "Happy New Year" to our baby girl and drifted back to sleepyland!
Paul and the kids stayed up for the New York blast off, so that was good at least! Someone saw something happen.
The next morning I put a party hat on Sophia while she was playing in her baby gym. She looked so cute! It's strange though, I dont feel like its a new year...seems just like a continuation of 2008, but maybe that's because all this snow keeps coming back! Cannot wait for Spring! Hopefully we'll have better weather and a real summer this year!
We went to Hollywood for a couple days and showed the kids around town. We took a picture of Sophia next to her favorite star! It was cute. Hasnt changed much there, but it does seem dirtier around the city than it used to! Blech! We stayed at the London hotel for 2 nights. Gordon Ramsay just opened a new restaurant there, so we had a nanny come to watch the kids and we enjoyed a dinner together which was something we hadn't done in a while. Gotta get couple time in too!
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years and that all our new resolutions for 2009 are accomplished. I havent really figured out what mine are yet. I just want to continue to be the best Mommy I can to Sophia and accept that I'm not a perfect being and that I do make mistakes and its okay. I try so hard to make things perfect for her, in terms of napping and making sure that she's sleeping as well as she can, (it seems to be our only challenge with her) and its a lot of pressure. As soon as I think "Ah, ha! That's the problem, its not! And then Im racking my brain for another reason as to why shes not sleeping well at night. But hey, they are only this little once, and all I can do is enjoy the time with her and not focus on all the hard challenges so much that it takes over my motherhood joy! What truly matters is that shes happy and healthy and gets all the love and kisses she needs from her family! That's something I know I can do! =)
Happy New Year everyone!!! Love to all!
