January Wrap Up

Leia in her mother's hat. This was one of those unexpectedly perfect shots, because she fell over 3 seconds after I took the picture.

Wow, it's hard to believe that it's almost February already. Between going back to college, entertaining kids, birthday parties, baby showers, placement tests... I don't really feel like I've had a chance to really sit still this month. Here are some random things I learned this month.

• When you need to entertain kids on MLK day and it's 15F outside, Chuck E Cheese is so not the place to do it. Our pizza came out long before we had a table. By the time we finally had a table, we waited another 15 minutes for them to remake the pizza, as the other had started congealing.

• Paul is old enough to be perturbed by drivers who think the laws of physics don't apply to them when it's snowing, because they have an SUV. "Mama... don't they know my head is breakable?!" was his reaction to seeing yet another SUV skid onto the sidewalk.

• On new babies - After holding a relatively new baby at Misty's shower, I discovered that 10lb babies get heavy after awhile. New babies also make their new big brothers guard their toys a little more jealously.

• Listening to 3 year olds trying to decide if the part of town by the NRA museum and I66 was part of "my Fairfax school" or Oakton was amusing.

• The English placement test was much easier than I expected. Most of the sentences on the test looked like they were written someone fluent in LOL Cat. I only missed two points, so I can take honors classes.

• I actually met another female Computer Science major. Most women I know who are in IT seem to be more on the management side, rather than the development side.

• Icebreaker games are interesting. I apparently look like someone who graduated high school within the last three years, as well as someone who likes history. Most people seemed surprised at the true statement.

• I actually like my speech class. Technically, it's more of a communications class, so we only give one speech.

• Everyone and their mother (ok, just Leia and Tamara) has a birthday in January. I think I won't get a breather on birthday parties until April.

• I did not fall after a 5 year absence from ice skating. However, I was wobbly and not very graceful. I blame the skates, which were a size and a half too big. Damn you early birds who wear size 8.5 and left me with a size 10.