Awake: 8:03am Sleep 8+19 cloudy with snow flurries overnight @ Indiana, PA.
Our usual motel breakfast is getting dated, but the price is right so we’ll hang in there.
The earliest report time yet @ the Foote Castle: 10:40am. With snow flurries flying, I dilute the anti-freeze to a 50/50 mixture & use close to (2) gallons; my contract with Kevin has now been fulfilled.
Matthew & I spend about (45) min playing with play dough. The build & destroy theory was alive & well during this time; that’s just the way kids are.
1:45pm dinner: Mexican Lasagna & black bean salad & lettuce salad.
Mid afternoon, we celebrate Andrew’s 2nd yr birthday with a cake shaped like a semi-tractor, ice cream & presents of (4) matchbox cars, Brio train engine & coal car, (8) curved tracks, train whistle & a white sweat shirt with an embroidered fire truck by Kathy & a mailed in bond for Andrew from his Godparents, Gary & Rosemary C. Andrew was all smiles save for the few moments when his brother, Matthew, was trying to overpower the unwrapping & testing of his toys.
Also mid afternoon, Nick & Jerry spend nearly an hr outdoors; Jerry driving the Little Tyke car & big Nick sitting on a much smaller bike enticing Gentleman Jerry to start his engine. They than went for a walk in the neighborhood.
Both Andrew & Matthew are a little fussy early evening; Andrew told Melissa that he was sad. She asked him why; he told her: “too many people in the house.”
Now with the boys in bed, except Jerry, the early New Year’s celebration begins. Kevin brings out dishes of ice cream in flavors he knows are priorities for certain individuals. What a guy! Most likely we won’t hang around for midnight to celebrate so this was good enough.
No game playing again tonight.
Back @ our motel, K & I watch a few New Year celebrations around the world on TV before seeing the N.Y. city ball fall; what a crowd of red hats. “Happy New Year, 2008!”
Lights out: 12:17am
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