Marni has strep, and decided she would feel better if she slept upstairs in our bed last night. I had the honor of sleeping with the feverish little snore machine.
At about 3:30 am she awoke and asked for some water. Once she was done quenching her thirst, she decided to get all Ophthalmological on me. What ensued was a lesson from her on how the "pimples" (pupils) in your eyes get bigger and smaller depending on the light. Once she was done schooling me on this topic she declared the workings of the eye "impressive", rolled over, and went to sleep.
Last night Marni begged me to put on some music so that she could dance for us. How could I refuse a request like that? The result is below.
I'm crossing my fingers that it will eventually be included in the documentary that will be created about her as one of America's most beloved entertainers.
I forgot to mention that we spent New Years in Natick this year. First time ever with the kids (or Lisa, even).
The night we arrived, Natick got hit by a pretty good snow storm. That gave the girls plenty to do the next day, and they took full advantage of their own private sledding hill (Nana and Papa's driveway). The same driveway that Aunt Toots and I sledded down a couple of hundred years ago.
New Years in Natick also gave Lisa and I the opportunity to leave the kids with the grandparents and actually go out for New Years. And then I got the bright idea to get a hotel room for the night for a little mommy and daddy private time (wink wink)!
Lisa was asleep before midnight.
Nana and Papa had a great time with the girls and woke them up at midnight to see the ball drop (another first). Marni was awake. Stella, not so much.
Last Friday the northeast got walloped by the first blizzard of the winter season. Although other areas received as much as 35 inches of snow, Brooklyn's 11 inches was definitely respectable.
On Saturday we all bundled up, grabbed our sled, and headed to Prospect Park to have some fun. We ended up at the hill behind the Picnic House and got in a bunch of good slides before getting cold and wandering back to Barnes and Nobel for some hot chocolate.
By the way... this is the first time, since the kids were born, that we went to Prospect Park for sledding.
