comic book - 1

So, I am making a little book of Florida memories for J - these are the first 3 pages chronicling the good times: Getting ready for a dip in GG's pool (which is like a big salt water bath): Our trip to the zoo and some of the animals we saw:
and fed - getting licked by the giraffe was the BEST, but he enjoyed a little finger nibble from the lorrie too:
more pages and photos to come

tradition

Here we are at our usual hang in PB; Bradley's - where there is always a lot of mustard going on (on the prezels) - but that's ok, I mean, it's messy but it's NOT that awful red sticky stuff I am so afraid of. Mom did introduce him to ketchup while we were there - it was a horrifying scene: my son, sucking it off the fries.

Running off that big pretzel at the amphitheatre in West Palm

Traveling down Worth - Yummm, something smells...expensive

The Breakers

The Breakers - C's cousin interned here for a summer when he was at culinary school, so we went and payed some homage. Mom's garden club met here a few weeks ago - they toured the grounds with the head gardener and she said it was very interesting. But I was not impressed with the gardens that I saw: "garden-variety" must have started here - the plantings were not grand enough. To my eye, impatiens and begonias (yawn) just don't stand up to this impressive structure in elegance or in heft.

soak it up

The pictures are going up in random order now - I don't know why it changed, but I guess there is no need for order here: it's all about good times. Plenty of healing to be had at GG's

this lovely thing is called a firecracker tree

J and GG did some late afternoon adventuring in her backyard

Leaving

Mom's street, reflected onto the back bumper of her her little rocket car as she drives us away from our sun filled vay-cay and back to the airport.

He will wear headphones now! He is a great flyer, so it's just another thing for him to be happy about on the plane. What he was listening to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7TXwyZ9CM8

Now that'll make most anybody smile.

Delays don't get us down (you know we had to have one), but cold weather might. So long, Florida.

Those tropical breezes can't come too soon

We are off to do the Florida thing again in a couple of days - just in time for the sub-zero weather hitting the Hudson Valley (and pretty much everywhere else). Just the thought of my body being freed of it's turtleneck confines is enough to make me feel giddy

Throwing some Christmas shots up before it gets to be February

New christmas slippers!

These never come off.
At Mimi & Papa's - 65 degrees of Christmas joy

Christmas morning

You know Santa ate all of these cookies in one sitting. So delish - so easy: 1 cup peanut butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

350 degrees for 7 minutes

add a kiss!

Dark chocolate is esp. good -Santa would like to thank Mommycoddle for the recipie

What is that white stuff all about again?

He is wayyy to big for his little toddler sled this year - ended up with snow in his pants up to his knees from his feet scraping the ground with every pass up and down the street - he sure had fun though (until we lost a mitten, then it was all over).