Winter Break:Days 4 et 5

Last night, I babysat for friends. I forgot how sweet it was to be with an infant at Christmas. I got to rock a little baby by the light of the Christmas tree while watching cable. Bottle feeding is a trip! You can see the vulnerable little palate as they take in all that milk. I gorged myself on tv (a show that follows the Antrhopologie buyer around the world, parts of the movies "He's Just Not That Into You" and "Rachel Getting Married" a depressing program about black mold, which I had to turn off and Oprah's Obama Special at the White House).

We also went to family swim, my eyes are still red from exchanging underwater messages with Clara. She had the common sense to do sign language while I was unsuccessfully mouthing words while laughter bubbles obscured my face.

This morning--Geoff took the girls to the movies while the boys and I had our own date. They came with me to my Kickboxing class. Oh my, that was so much fun! Manny wanted to listen to his own ipod while still participating in class. Talk about marching to your own drummer! And Benicio, oh man, he was 100% ninja. After Kickboxing, we went to the five and dime and saw tiny baby turtles. They got Pokemon cards and are happy as larks. I had really hoped that vacation would be so chill that they would have time to play in their rooms, to rest, and for goodness sake, find themselves bored. I like watching them make their own fun. I think it's good for them to direct and redirect their energies.

The elfing is almost done. What we haven't made yet, will have to wait. The kids are more excited to give their gifts than they are about Santa. I'll tell you more about the gifts later but I need to run-- I have a carrot cake in the oven!!