Caleb, Megan, Nadine and I had nice and relaxing Christmas and New Years’ holidays. Some of our time was spent in Connecticut with my family, but for the remainder of the holidays, we enjoyed hanging out in Boston.
Aside from the usual holiday hubbub, the most important event of note is that we transitioned Caleb from diapers to underwear! We chose a weekend, went to the store, picked out some cool undies with him (he chose a Cars pack and a Superman pack) and then simply had him wear them around the house. We had tried other methods off and on over the previous weeks so he was aware of the concept of “no diaper” but had yet to really experience the reality of lighter undergarments. If you have any doubts about the cold turkey method, it worked like a charm! He was a bit put off the first few times (okay, uncomfortable, mad and sad that he wet his new undies, to be fair) but he started using the toilet more (we lavished him with praise every time) and now even uses the toilet at daycare. Yay! No more diapers!
Sweet! Enter the, “Whoops! We should have stopped the car sooner!” moments…
Enough of that — below are a few photos from the past few weeks.
Nadine hanging out in the Prado during our first real snowfall of the winter. You can’t see it in the photo but she had clumps of snow forming on her whiskers. It was quite cute.
Caleb was not feeling great that afternoon and was somewhat grumpy. That’s okay. I was grumpy too. (Well, I wasn’t, but if it makes him feel better that I was, so be it.)
A shot of the Prado and the Financial District taken from our roof deck that night.
Caleb and I had an awesome lunch at a Mexican restaurant in Central Square. We were running around the city looking for a jewelery store to get Megan a Christmas present (we finally found a perfect one in Harvard Square) and stopped here to get some grub. We barely cracked the door to go inside when Caleb announced that he wanted a quesadilla. I was somewhat taken aback since I hadn’t said anything about what kind of a restaurant it was so either he wanted one as a coincidence, or he recognized the smell of awesome Mexican food when we walked in and connected it with his favorite cheese-laden food (I’m convinced it was the latter).
The Red Line pulling into Central Square.
Caleb on my lap while we rode the Red Line back to Boston.
Nadine and her boyfriend (says she) Clyde. Whenever we visit my parents, she follows him around and tries to give him kisses (or puffs her chest out and tries to act cool). They are very cute together when they aren’t trying to show who has more feist than the other.
Nadine in the snow at my parent’s house. Check out how far apart her toes are — it’s hilarious when she does that (usually when she is getting wild and running around in circles with her ears back… or trying to maintain grip on ice…).
Caleb claiming his horde of cars and trucks on Christmas Day.
Caleb driving his girlfriend (Lydia) around our second bedroom…in a sugar snap peas box…
