Melissa’s Blog

We were awoken at midnight with people outside celebrating the New Year. This morning we played at home for a while. The kids wanted to go outside in the backyard. It was cold but we bundled them up and out they went. They had fun with the lawnmower and truck. We ran to Wal-Mart to return one of the electric car batteries. Wal-Mart was empty, it was great. We let the kiddos play and have fun. They rode bikes and looked at toys. We returned one of the Hot Wheel toys we got Justin for Christmas, so instead we bought another piece to GeoTrax, the helicopter. The kids love it, but we will see how long they actually play with it. I felt like I needed to walk Cindy, so we went around the block. Daddy used his trikke and the kids biked. I could barely keep up. After the kiddos drove their cars, they had a blast racing the cars on the greenbelt. We ran to the Laguna Hills Mall to JCPenny to look for a suit for Justin. The kids were so sad as there was a train and it was closed. They wanted to wait there until it opened. They didn’t care we told them it would be all night. We went to Ruby’s for dinner-the kids liked the planes and their cardboard train. Thank goodness by the time we left the mall, things were closed. The kids get easily distracted with the lights, the coin operated rides, etc. We came home and read lots of books and told lots of stories, kiddos went right to bed.