It was an eventful 6 days from start to finish. First, almost crashing the car into hotel sprinkler system. Oops! Then forgeting Harry's car seat in the hotel shuttle. I'd say we started out on our middle foot. The flight was long and boring. Harry was a little fidgeting but he is growing up and now we can sit and talk or play pretend. Har is really obsessed with reindeer right now. In fact, he would like to own one the size of Bambi and keep it in his backyard. He said he will feed it carrots and water and the reindeer must have a red nose like Rudolph to fly through storms.

So we made it to Beantown got from the airport to Mom's house in about 20 minutes. Ate pizza visted with Mike and Sharon, Mom and Ed. And then went back to Logan to pick up Jody.

On Friday we drove 2+ hours to Carver to go to Edaville. It was a little bit of a disappointment for the adults but Harry loved it. He was nervous about the train ride because he was afraid of tunnels. The night before Mom and Ed were telling him he shouldn't go outside at night because animals might eat or bite him. (yeah, I told them to quit those stories..no one needs to be afraid of a possum in Squantum) So, Harry powered through his fears and really enjoyed the severly shortened train ride through the decorated cranberry bog. Afterwards he rode a carousal, a Dumbo ride, and a plane ride. He really enjoyed himself. He could have had his own plane but he decided to jump in the backseat of another kid's. They giggled the entire time and seem to have a blast. Although at one point I htought Harry whacked the kid on the head but after the ride when I asked about it everyone seemed happy.

On Saturday we went ice skating on the Frog Pond. Harry struggled with keeping himself up but Aunt Sharon, who is quite a good skater, really helped pull him along. Mom mentioned she might like to skate for exercise as she and Ed were quite amazed at not having skated in like 20 years just tooling around...and not falling down. Then we played in the snow piles made by the zamboni. Mike threw snowballs at Harry and Harry pitched them right back. Mike reiterated his baseball ideas for Har.

On Christmas Mike came over in the morning. Sharon stayed in NH until later. Jody and I cooked eggs and sausage and we sat around and opened some presents. Dad got Harry a Hess Firetruck and unfortunately the night before Mom let HArry open one present and it was ..you guessed it, the Hess Firetruck. So we decided to let Dad hold on to the present. Not like Harry needs any more gifts...holy guac he got a ton this year.

Then we went to Mom and Ed's at noontime and opened more presents. We had a nice dinner around 4 and back to Dad's.

On Monday we went to Fanueil Hall and walked around a bit. The city was deserted. It was so weird but great not to have to face the crowds. The weather reminded me of our Salem trip..gray, cold and slightly eery. Basically it reminded me of you and me mulling about, getting to enjoy each other wihtout interruption.

In the afternoon, Uncle Bob, Bobby, John and Anthony came over. Harry and Anthony had a blast. Especially when the uncles were playing "Keep Away". They were laughing and running around like crazy. I have never seen Harry play like that. He has such a blast and I was so glad.

Harry is so outgoing and busy. I told him last night before he went to bed that I hope he has a good life. I think he thought I said have a good day or sleep or soemthing becuase he just sort of brushed me off with okay mom.. That's alright.
He misses Daddy but we have been so busy this last month there isn't much time to dwell.In fact, I have only begun to start to feel that real core emptiness of your departure. We have been so harried with the season and keeping up and getting ready etc that there was no time to really feel the separation. We miss you. We'll just try and focus on the funs things to do when you get home.