Drive south

On Christmas day we headed out for our first long roadtrip together. Chad's brilliant idea to leave the house at 4 am worked- both Elliot and I slept in the car until almost 9 am being lulled by the motion of the car. We had planned on making multiple stops to stretch our legs and ward off the crazy, but we didn't need to. We didn't even have to break out the netbook to distract with cartoons.

We spent a relaxing 6 days with great people and drove home over two days, spending a night in Grants Pass, OR on NYE.

The downside to the trip was that we learned Tito has an agressive and inoperable tumor just above his spleen. The meds are helping him and he's able to eat and get around a little easier than before. We've been spending lots of time at home snuggling with Tito.

Christmas 09

We had a relaxed holiday at home- Elliot doesn't look relaxed opening the presents but the whole day was great.

Big bed

Elliot's looked squeezed into his 3-sided crib for quite some time. Between that and the fact that he was almost completely potty trained, we thought it was a good time for the transition to a big bed. We got him a bunk bed and didn't attach the rungs of the ladder to keep him from climbing onto the (empty, for now) top bunk. The crib is still in his room for his baby brother/sister. It's getting crowded in there.