Holidays

Happy new year everybody!  Sonia truly enjoyed Christmas this year, though she could only focus on opening presents for the first three or four, then she was off to other endevours.  Not such a bad thing, I think.  She did learn to recognize Santa Claus-first as a stuffed toy then as a two story inflated figure in the old town area of Albuquerque.  Every time one of these came into view, we would hear a little, "ho...ho...ho".  This was easily mistaken for, "oooo....oooo....oooo" (the sound an owl makes) or "oooowwww" (the sound a wolf makes), so Sunny sometimes had to set us straight.  We tried to go visit the real guy at the mall, but neither of us thought the line was worth it and we just waved from afar.  When things do not go as planned, Sunny takes  a lot of comfort in her silky, the brown blanket she is gnawing on below.  If something drops or spills, she says, "Uh Oh!" and grabs her silky.  She pretty much wants it whenever there is something troubling occurring like Ezra howling, her foot slipping, or hunger pains starting as well as when she is playing so she can cover up her dolls and animals.  Yes, it is in her hand most of the time.

Here are some pictures from Christmas Day with the Masons.  In the last picture, Jeff is looking at Sonia and Sonia is concentrating on a Barak Obama doll on the chair.  Tammy had gotten the doll (complete with a "Yes we can" soundtrack) for Ian as a gag gift and Sunny could not get enough of it.  Alan and I had to open her presents because she was so enamored with Obama she refused to even look in our direction.  Tammy has kindly sacrificed her living room for the jungle gym Jeff made Sonia.  She loves it and is already starting to hang and pull herself up.  Uh oh!

We made an unplanned trip up to Trinidad for New Years.  As usual, Sunny loved all the dogs and the llamas.  She desperately wanted to pet the cat as well, but he was in no such mood.  Sunny kept looking for him, pointing to locations of his past whereabouts and saying, "meow."  Grandma Sandy asked if Sunny could call her Mimi.  Sure, we said, and a minute later Sunny was saying, "Mimimimi."  Good choice, Sandy!  Uncle Matt, his girlfriend (who made Sunny the hat she is in below) and her kids all came down so Sunny got to watch some big kids sled on a toboggan.  She even did a little sledding herself on a saucer sled.