A new year...

Nathan had his Christmas program at school on 12/19.  He was certainly the most energetic.

Christmas Day Nathan opened up all of his presents.  It was so nice that day that we cooked out and ate outside in our back yard.  That evening we went to see the Christmas lights in Winterhaven.  This year they no longer have the mule rides so we just walked it.  It made for better picture taking.

We went to Sabino Canyon on 12/29.  I think we missed the peak of the Fall colors, but it was still pretty and there was water flowing.  We took the tram up and started walking down.  Nathan got tired halfway so he and daddy took the tram back down.  Mommy walked the whole way down!  I saw two cardinals that day, too!

I went to Tucson Botanical Gardens on on 12/30 to see the butterflies.

Nathan and I went to the Desert Museum on 12/31.  We saw Cruz, the mountain lion, at the window again. We met daddy for dinner at Athens on 4th Avenue.  Then we rang in the New Year at home.  Nathan loved the noise makers that I bought.  We stayed up until 10 and saw New York ring in the New Year on TV.

I turned 39 on 1/2.  Not a very good birthday.  Nathan was home with me and I spent the whole day cleaning and taking down the ornaments on the tree.  It was quite depressing.  Next year will be worse because I will be the big 4-0.

Nathan went to school yesterday so I went to La Placita Village, Reid Park (to see the ducks and the rose garden) and to the zoo.

Today we went to a U of A basketball game.  Wildcats won!

Nathan's school approached us a week or two ago and asked if we would be interested in moving him up to the 4 year old class.  He is one of the oldest in his class and his behavioral problems may be caused by the fact that he is getting bored in class because he already knows a lot of what they are doing in there.  He also likes to pick on the other kids, maybe because they are younger and smaller than him.  They think socially it could help him a lot and they think he may struggle at first academically, but that he should catch up because he is smart. We agreed, but now they say it is up to Cindy, the Director, and she does not return to school until 1/6.  So we will see.