Thankful for Player Pianos and Fisher-Price

Thanksgiving was rather unusual this year.  We didn't spend it with blood relatives; instead we drove about 3 hours to spend it with friends near Fort Wayne, Indiana.  The highlight of the trip for Weston was a tie between getting to play with the classic Fisher-Price Little People garage...

This sells for $92 on eBay!

and dancing to the player piano...


Dancing to Rudolph from Robyn Weaver on Vimeo.

I play the piano, but Weston would not tolerate me playing during our trip.  He'd be in the other room playing, and I'd sit down to play a song.  He'd come running in, going, "Un-uh, un-uh, un-uh" and pulling my hands off the keys.  He sometimes does the same thing when I sing.  He doesn't mind when others sing, but I always get the ax, unless it's "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" and he's in the mood to hear it.  I find this fascinating (as well as a little ego-bruising).

No Internet

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth.  Actually, I think I have.  Our undisclosed Internet source put a password on their account a couple of weeks ago, and we no longer have the Internets here at our apartment.  I feel like I'm dying.  It's been good on some level because it's forced Weston and me to get out of the house on my winter break and go to the public library.  They have a nice toddler area in the children's section, so he can get into all sorts of messes while I catch up on the world, pay bills, send email, etc.

We're moving soon to a house (!) so we'll be getting Internets for sure then.  It's going to be a rough couple of weeks without it, but I'll make it through...

Quick update: Christmas was a blast.  Weston loved all the new toys and books, which couldn't have come a better time since he was bored with everything that he currently has.  I can't upload any pictures quite yet, but I'll get there.  Weston must have been good this year, because he got lots of love from Santa.  Grandma and Grandpa came in from Iowa and spent Christmas with us this year.  Nate and I slept in Weston's room on the futon, and that worked out okay until the last night when he finally realized that we were in there with him.  I think I slept about 2 hours that night...

Thanksgiving

Oops.  Thanksgiving's been over for two weeks.  It was a great holiday because we went back to Wisco to spend it with my mom, aunt, uncle, cousins, and their kids.  The traveling actually wasn't so bad--I get ridiculously worked up before going on car trips with Weston.  I just feel terribly guilty about having him confined to the car seat, and the drive from Cinci to my mom's is about 7 hours.  But, we left at 5pm on Tuesday and he conked out soon after we left for about an hour.  We then stopped to get Nate some coffee, and we played at the Starbucks and changed into pajamas.  He nursed, and then promptly fell back asleep for the rest of the night until we rolled into Grandma's at midnight.  He woke up, nursed again, and went back to bed.

Checking out Great Uncle Peter (and his beard)

The center of attention

Baby did have some real turkey and baked sweet potatoes for dinner and loved it!

He spent the rest of Thanksgiving teething.  He now has 6 teeth total--four on the top and two on the bottom.  I think the other two bottom teeth are coming in...  And then I hope we get a break.