Winding down after the holidays...

We are trying to get back into the routine here after the holidays. It has been quite a whirlwind the last few months with moving. the holidays, and our trip to KC. We left on the 17th early morning and came back late xmas night for our annual xmas visit to KC. It was pretty packed on the 17th, surprisingly, but the flight was half empty on the way back. Xmas day is a good time to travel! Course, we went on southwest which totally sucked. When you are are spoiled from using Midwest all the time with those nice big seats and chocolate chip cookies, SW is a bit miserable. If that airline goes out of business I will be dissappointed! Abhi did pretty well though on the flight although it was tough holding on to him in our lap because he is a) getting to be a big boy and b) very busy and not as willing to sit still as he used to be (not that he ever really was but you know what I mean). Our flight was at 7am from baltimore so we had to get up at 3am and drive. I thought Abhi would just go right into the carseat and continue sleeping. Oh no, he was wide-eyed not wanting to miss a thing. So, the first hour of the flight he was a bit antsy from being tired but he finally settled down.

Abhi enjoyed time at Grandma and Grandpa Johns house and then it was off to Nanny and Paw-Paws for a few days and for xmas eve. We visited a few friends and family while there and then it was back to Grandma's for xmas dinner and off to the plane. It went by very fast. Abhi was much easier to control this time he was not destroying everything this time. He was very good with the xmas trees, not removing any ornaments or destroying any presents. He ate well and was exposed to lots of new foods like chocolate chip cookies (I mean in a much larger dose than usual) and all the good, rich holiday foods. I think he enjoyed as he kept eating!

It was very cold in KC. We landed to a lovely 6 degrees and by the next week we woke up to about zero with a 20 below wind chill. Needless to say, we stayed inside! We did get out and have some fun. Of course, mostly it was all centered around eating and being in the carseat, not Abhi's favorite activities but he hung in there. They have a huge model train display during the holiday at the Union Station so we took Abhi to see that because he loves trains so much. He had a great time until we tried to get him to ride the one they had for kids. Once Keshav started walking away, he sobbed and demanded "up!" Oh well, maybe next year. I thought he was so brave and acted much of the time like he did not need us. That had recently vanished and he is quite clingy these days to me and especially Keshav. After spending a week with Keshav around all the time he has pretty much discarded me.

I will post some new pictures soon. We finally got a new camera but I borrowed one over the holiday and have not gotten those yet. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and 2009 is starting off well. Stay tuned for pictures soon.