Brown's Life: January 2008

So I had big plans to do a year in review post...the whole year one post, but that is just a little too much to ask of myself, so I thought I would go month by month, and it generates more posts which will help me with my lackluster blogging skills...so today we start with January!

January -
We rang in the New Year very mellow...in bed by 10pm. Oh well, I guess that's life when you have a little one. January always brings the frenzy of preparing for Lillian's birthday. My sister, Greta, always says that after Christmas she has the big let down from no more crafty, bakey, shopey things to do...well she should have had a January baby...I wanted to throw Lillian a very mellow 2nd birthday, just a few friends, lunch, cake, hooray. Originally, we had planned a beach party with sand castle building, but the weather didn't hold up and neither did Jeff's health...so we opted for a home party, which was great, except Jeff felt like shit, ended up going to bed half way through the party (and later we found out we got a majority of our guest sick, oops), but Lillian was very happy to dance and play with her friends and still talks about her 2nd birthday.

Lillian's birthday also brought our last San Diego visit with Grandma Shirley. Things had turned from sketchy to terrible around Christmas, and finally my Aunt came out to access the situation. After a few weeks, she decided that she needed to check on her home in AZ and took Grandma with her. Long story short, my grandma now lives in an old lady house in Tuscon. My Aunt and my grandma stopped by Lillian birthday party which was a nice surprised, but we didn't really realize it would her last visit to our home, oh well, I feel good about where she is now and I have no regrets.

January also brought visit with family to celebrate lots of birthdays on the Brown side. Plenty of snuggles with Scooby and days spent playing with new toys and books. Looking back at photos, Lillian's hair was very short, but it was finally starting to grow after the pulling stopped. Giving up her pacifer helped end the majority of the pulling and 2008 become the year of hair! Hooray.