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| For the record, I LOVE THIS PICTURE. |
The boys got VERY excited about New Year's Eve this year. We didn't do anything special to celebrate - unless you consider staying in your pajamas and watching football all day "special" (which I DO). Anticipating that the boys would be going to bed at 7 or 7:30, we did some sparklers at halftime of the Alabama / Washington game.Unlike last year, when the boys wanted to SEE the sparklers but not touch them, they couldn't get enough of them this year. I think we went through three or four boxes, all left over from the stash I bought this time last year. Every time one sparkler would go out, they asked for "more fire." Then Jeremy would light one up, and they'd fake cough, putting their empty had over their mouths and pretending to be overcome from all the smoke. Jones, of course, started this little charade.
After they played on the clubhouse for a few minutes, we then watched "The Three Little Pigs" (because Jones is newly OBSESSED). Then, we counted down to "midnite," thanks to one of Netflix's on demand countdowns. We did the King Julien one from "Madagascar," and it was awesome. Then off to bed the boys went.OHHHH.
AND at dinner, the boys were using the map-of-Disney World plates we got them for Christmas. I got them, hoping the boys would see them when they ate and start getting excited about our September trip. Well, it's already working. Jones started pointing at places on the melarmine map and saying he wanted to ride that or see this on our Disney trip. That led to a conversation all about what we're going to see - and whom we're going to meet - not too many months from now.
2017 is gonna be AWESOME.
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| "I can't hear anything," Jones said as he put the horn to his ear. |
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| This makes me wonder, if Jones were the leader of a 1940s big band, what would the band be called? I feel like I need to come up with something. |
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| This was the exact moment when Freddie realized his hat was on backwards. |
