New Year's Eve

We had a quiet night in on New Year's Eve this year. After I picked up Harry and Elias from Childroots we went home and ate a meal that included sauerkraut. Elias, however, is not a big fan. After dinner Elias was really excited because I had picked up a gingerbread house to put together. I had also promised that we could start reading one of his new "Oz" books that he got for Christmas--he's a big fan of that series of books.

Harry put the house together, and then Elias went to town decorating it. Surprisingly none of the candy actually went into his mouth... at least until he finished. Elias wanted to start eating it immediately but I made him let me take a picture of the finished product first. He told us we couldn't do anything else until he had eaten the whole thing. He made it through the gingerbread man, the gingerbread snowman, and the gingerbread tree but then he said he needed to "save it for later." After that we all sat down to begin reading "The Road to Oz." Harry and I alternated reading and made it through eight chapters before we decided it would be physically impossible to read anymore. By this time it was after 9pm so we still had a couple hours to get through. We watched a few cartoons and Harry and Elias played Elias' new boardgame "Go Away, Monster!" (I was napping on the couch). At 11:30 we finally truned on the tv and watched everyone freezing in Times Square. We were all pretty tired but made it to 2009. Seconds after the ball dropped Elias' eyelashes fluttered closed and he fell asleep.