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01/05/2009: "Day Late, Dollar Short, What Else is New?"

Christmas was really lovely this year. Dessa was more into the spirit of it all, though she would have been immensely satisfied with a single gift. She was fascinated with what she got and immediately wanted to play with it and only it. Whatever it was.

She was showered with presents. A favorite is the gorgeous wooden block set that Grandma, Auntie B and Cousin Z sent (when my mom saw it she immediately gushed, "That is the kind of toy she plays with and then you save it for her children and their children and their children...") Dessa actually stacked the blocks instead of her usual tendency to sweep anything put on top of another thing to the ground in a scorched earth policy that would make Godzilla proud. Unfortunately I have no pictures of this yet because each time she begins stacking I rush to grab the camera and Dessa, seeing this, grins cheesily and chirps, "Smile!" and... she runs toward the camera and away from her gloriously stacked blocks. Soon, I hope, she will be less star-struck.

But there are other images for your enjoyment. First off, Dessa sporting a new Elmo outfit. She was delighted to wear this and kept pointing and saying, "Elmo!" to her chest.

Next up, an action shot ripping open a present. Honestly, she opened the book sitting next to her first and would have been content to sit on that couch and look through that book for the rest of the day. It was hell getting her to put it aside. She was still in her PJ's at this point. We had a storm come in on Christmas morning and I didn't want to bring her to Nana's in her dress, which has short sleeves. Besides, it's more cozy to open presents in your pajamas, isn't it?



We did, eventually, wrest her into her Christmas dress (after a nap, though. I'm not as much of a fool as I look). I think she looks about 5 in this picture - how can she be so big already!?



The present opening continued pretty much all day. Lots of friends and neighbors stopped by so it was quite a party.



Santa brought Dessa a toy vacuum cleaner that talks. When you roll him around he says things like, "Hello! This place is a mess!" or "This place is a pigsty!" I thought he was cute in the store but his constant bitching about the state of my floors is beginning to give me a complex. Dessa was a little put off by him at first too but after a few days she spontaneously started to run him all over the floors, just the way we do when we vacuum - back and forth, back and forth. A little hausfrau in the making.



She looks far more delighted than I do when I'm vacuuming.

As for the rest of us, things are well here. My surgery went wonderfully - I was walking on the leg without crutches the day after surgery and fully mobile within a couple of days. Without the plate I can handle stairs much more comfortably. I only need to be cautious for about 6 weeks because the bone still has the holes from the screws. Once they fill in I'll be good as new. I went back to work today and was actually relatively happy to be there. It's hard to leave Dessa, of course, but it was good to be back in the swing of things.

That's the news from here. One of my many New Year's resolutions is to keep up the blog a little more frequently. We'll see just how well that goes.