New Year's Eve Day was a good day for us all. Josh got to sleep in pretty late while Ridley and I hung out with the kitties and updated the blog. Shortly before Josh got up, Tweak decided to mount a fierce arial attack on the Christmas tree, so we decided to take it down. It didn't take too long, actually, seeing as Tweak had already removed all the ornaments from the bottom half of the tree.
After lunch, Josh took the kittens and headed out to his parents' house to start Ridley's laundry and meet a couple friends to see a movie. Ridley and I elected to stay home instead so that my mom and Bilhenry could stop by and we could see them again before they headed back to Milwaukee. Ridley was in a much happier mood than he had been the other times he'd gotten to see them in the preceding days. Grandma Kathy even got to read him part of his Christmas book!
After Ridley ate some dinner, he and I headed out to Josh's parents' house for their New Year's Eve party. We hung out for a couple hours, but then Ridley got cranky, and met a new level of Ridley crankiness, so he and headed home (where he calmed down immediately upon walking in the door). We brought in the new year with smiles and a little spit-up and were both in bed by 12:15.
New Year's Day was Happy Baby Day! After a good night's sleep , Ridley woke up happy and smiley and barely fussed the whole day!
Josh, Ridley and I all headed out to the Mall of America to meet Jake, Beth, John, and John's friend Ellen for lunch.
The host apparently thought Ridley needed crayons and a kid's menu, but he wasn't interested in them. So Jake, Beth and John colored the pictures instead.
After lunch, the others went to play mini-golf at Moose Mountain (they all said it was over-priced and boring, and recommend not wasting your money on it), and Ridley and I went to get his diaper changed and then do some clothes shopping. Things we learned along the way:
- The department store bathrooms have way nicer changing tables than the mall ones. Not only are they bigger, but they're cushioned too!
- It is far, far easier to take the elevator at the back of Sears than to use the ones in the mall itself.
- Even though most of H&M may be packed with people, the baby section may still be pleasantly empty.
- Baby clothes stores do not have stroller-friendly layouts.
- Months of searching can pay off. My nearly six-month search for a plain grey, infant-size baby hooded sweatshirt finally paid off. Not only did I find the cutest grey sweatshirt (it's from a line of clothes that had a sled-dog theme, so the hood has little ears on it!), but it was on sale for 60 percent off. And it's a 3-6 month size, so it should fit Ridley in about a month or so!
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