Happy Birthday to the little girl

Today our younger daughter, Arwen, is a one-year-old.

It doesn’t seem that along ago we just brought her home. She’s growing up fast it seems and it’s the same with Anya as well.

Before I know it it’ll be time to start scaring boys at the door. I do not look forward to that.

Well, maybe a part of me can’t wait for the scaring part.

Random Thoughts

I took Anya to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville this past weekend. I found it interesting but for a five-year-old the best part was the small playground with a slide. I seem to remember lots of things for smaller kids to experiment and explore when I went there as a kid. Plus I was amazed at the number of mistakes and typos in the descriptions of the rockets. For instance, a rocket designed to fire from the ground to hit targets in the sky is a surface-to-air missile and not a surface-to-surface missile. Not good.

Anya managed to get sick the last couple of days and not pass it on to the rest of us.

Arwen is into everything as usual. She loves the Christmas tree. And she turns one on Thursday, how the time has flown by!

Allison is still working on being mommy again to a baby. Getting used to having a toddler and then suddenly a baby again is not always easy. But she’s doing good and hopefully she’ll be repaid soon with a full night’s sleep.

We got new lights for the tree and they are the new fancy LED based lights. I wasn’t sure about them at first but I have to say I like them. They are bigger than the normal lights so they have an old fashioned feel to them.

I’m amazed at how bad people are about discussing politics. The hateful us-versus-them attitudes I see is just not productive nor beneficial. If this isn’t resolved I fear it will eventually tear us apart as a country. The current crop of politicians we have in Washington, Executive and Legislative, is not really helping in this. For instance, the majority constantly blaming the minority for everything even though they have no ability whatsoever to do anything to prevent the majority from doing whatever they want. It’s madness.

A good weekend

So, another weekend has come and gone. This was a long weekend as I had Thursday and Friday off for Thanksgiving. Plus my birthday was yesterday so that worked out fairly well. We went to Alex City to celebrate Thanksgiving with Allison’s family and it was fun showing off Arwen to family who hadn’t seen her yet.

Friday was a hang out in the house day as Allison went shopping during the Black Friday sales. Personally I avoid going out into that nonsense myself but she likes it sometimes. That Alabama/Auburn game sure was entertaining, a good game to watch. Even though I’m an Auburn fan I was disappointed in Alabama’s performance. For the number two team in the nation playing a non-ranked team with a new coach to finish that close to the wire was not good. They better figure out what happened before they play Florida.

For Saturday we went out for lunch at a Mexican place we liked but I doubt we’ll return anytime soon. Has got to be the fattiest tacos (including the chicken!) that I have ever seen. We tried making up for it by going to a somewhat new Asian place, Stix, we haven’t gone to yet for dinner. I have to say it was rather good but the Kung Pao didn’t agree with me, I’ll have to try something else next time. We’ll probably see about taking Anya to the Japanese steak house part, she would probably like it.

Today we did some cleaning up around the house and I did some yard work while Anya played since it was a pretty day. The ground in our yard is still somewhat soggy from all the rain we’ve gotten and I doubt it’ll totally dry out before Spring. I wonder what’ll happen if we get a hard freeze? Allison is cooking a lasagna we watched Guy Fierri make on his show on Food Network. I helped a bit and therefore I shall have ended the weekend by slicing a chunk of the end of my left thumb off while slicing the garlic.