Happy New Year!

Ok, so I'm a few days late. We spent New Year's Eve at our friends' house. In what was surely the last miracle of 2005, Samson managed to stay asleep until after the ball dropped and we woke him to head home.



This was not the case with his buddy, Jacob, who hung out until the bitter end. He was smiling and running around in circles and getting the most out of every last minute of 2005. (Note the time on the clock behind him and his mom).



Now before you start feeling badly for his parents, I should note that we got a call on New Year's Day that Jake slept until 10:30. Samson, for all his goodness about sleeping in a strange room, gifted us with an extra 45 minutes. Which meant we weren't up until 7:15 instead of his usual. Not that it wasn't appreciated, but I don't think he'd sleep an extra three hours even if we moved to Brazil.

We spent the extra day I had off cleaning/reorganizing the basement. Most of the work was done while Samson was in his little jail, alternately watching us and TV. It was not necessarily our proudest moment as parents, but it allowed us to clean up the laundry room area and get rid of enough stuff that the garbagemen probably wondered if we'd been evicted as they carted it all away this morning.

In any event, happy new year. Here's to health, happiness, and peace in 2006.