Life Adventures for Miles

Today we visited a family friend and their 10-month-old boy. We haven't seen the family in a couple of years won't be nice to visit. As her kid is a lot younger, luna had some Sussex (though she had no problem with his toys, haha). We even got a magnetic fishing bath toy (I am hoping it lessens the bath time fuss) for another Xmas present, while the little mister got a fluffy blanket and some books. Speaking of books... the book of the week! Book of the week: 1984; so this was a high school book that we had to read for some lesson or report of something. I only remembered that it was a government big brother story. The main character (Winston) is a worker bee for the party (the big brother government) who basically rebels and causes all sorts of problems. From my understanding, in the ending, he accepts the government after being tortured and betrayed (to and from) his lover. Totalitarianism was the name of the game along with all the factors that usually go with it. And we got

Today was indeed a restful day. We woke up and just cuddled and played all morning. There was paw patrol, paly foods, and mostly octopus music and dancing. The afternoon rolled around and out we went to stroll around the city and found some lunch, candy, and luna found herself a purple princess mermaid! After more wandering around some shops, we decided to eat dinner with some family and Luna got to finish opening her presents (more paw patrol, a shopping cart, and hot wheels!). Going back home we stopped off for some foodstuff and found some pretty outdoor decorations! For my active little four-year-old there were some interesting points of luna lessons but ultimately they had oodles and oodles of fun with Oma.  The craft of the week:  make pops! One of her cousins came and they played blues clue memory, made cake pops, and did some "calming" yoga via YouTube. So the instructions were lost to the bakers but YouTube came to the rescue. The cake pops came in an activity kit so

Today was another family event! No cousins this time but a hyper, excited, real-life pup to play with, outside field toys, piano playing, one uncle, one aunt, 2 grandparents, and some stuff he's were enough to tire out the four-year-old, this Christmas Day! Elmo came with cookies and hot chocolate, and a little reindeer (moose?) friend came with a gift card for dinner out! Then there were the fun cards and what I dubbed "luna cash" for something luna-size fin from the great-grands! All in all, a great southern/southwestern dinner (what I call lunch) of good food and good company!  As we learned our luna-lesson from yesterday, our day ended in a nice NC time zone timeline, so there were minimal fuss and luna drama but still a good amount of time for the family! The C Christmases were the only solid plan for this trip, so I am hoping tomorrow we can just take a day to relax and recharge after all this excitement. Wish me luck! Christmas facts ! While CHRISTmas is all about