Back at daycare!

Jake has started going to daycare a third half-day so I can have extra time at the gym.
He goes on Thursday afternoon as well now. Despite not napping, he did very well. He even had chocolate cake as a snack, it was someone's birthday. Then, he was absolutely wired all evening. Just running around from one end to the living room, screaming and being silly. It was pretty funny.
I learned a lesson today, always, always put either snow pants, or waterproof pants on an independent toddler. I let him walk to the car, and he jump and fell into a puddle. I had a change of clothes with me, changed him, then after daycare on the way home, he sat down in a puddle. Silly boy!

Good intentions

I fully intended on posting pictures of today, but somehow I lost them. Boo!

I'm sure I'll be able to capture the essence of them later on. He's bound to play again.

We had a regular day, slept in until 830am. Played inside, played outside, did not nap, napped during our walk, had supper, and went to bed at 7pm.

All in all, it's great to be back into our regular routine post holiday!

Last pictures from Austria

These are the last pictures from Austria. Then I'll go back to regular posting about our daily lives.

That was the beds, they sleep four, but since Jake and I had our own room, I got the whole bed to myself!

Christmas Day Pictures!

Happy New Year!

We had a great New Year's Eve Party.
I have no pictures of Jake...aren't I awful? We had a good 45 minutes of fireworks at midnight and I fully expected Jake to wake up and come participate, but he proved me wrong and stayed sound asleep during the whole thing!
We had a pretty relaxing day today!

Happy New Year and have a great 2011!!!

Christmas Eve Gondola Ride

From our chalet in Austria, we were able to see the mountain, and it was a short walk (well, a long walk in ski boots) to the chair lift. But, my dad told me that we could only see about a 1/4 of the mountain, so I was determined to take a gondola up to see the views. Jake, Rachel and I went on the gondola on Christmas Eve. It was a short walk there, but of course, Jake fell asleep, and was crabby when we woke him up. But he recovered fast and liked his gondola ride, he kept going from Rachel to me.
It was really pretty going up, and the views were great. We bought a couple diet cokes and sat outside for about an hour. Jake had fun walking around and playing in the snow..or the ski racks!

We came home and had a really yummy Christmas dinner. Jake loves turkey and mashed potatoes!

Salzburg:Part 2

I originally wanted to write only one post for Salzburg, but it was taking too long to load the pictures. When we first got to Salzburg, we went to Hellbrunn Schloss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbrunn_Palace. There was a great Christmas market, plus a little petting zoo next to it.

Jake had fallen asleep in the car, so he was VERY crabby when we woke him up, then put him in his snow pants. He didn't appreciate it at all. We finally managed to get him to the animals and he was a little tentative at first, hence the side-eye in the first picture! The pigs scared him, they were getting pretty rowdy, then one of them ran to the fence! Jake DID NOT like that. He finally settled down and liked the donkey's and the lambs the best.

Then we walked around the Christmas Market a little bit, these are all over Germany, Austria and several other countries. It's like a big outdoor craft fair.

After the Palace, we went to Salzburg. We had lunch in a fantastic Indian Food restaurant. Jake is easy to feed there since he loves rice. And then we headed out to skate, which I talked about yesterday!