February

According to the calendar in my cube February is the shortest month of the year, but I don’t believe it. February is the month when the sun goes on vacation to California, leaving those of us in the Midwest with nothing but endlessly cloudy, dreary, depressing days. So it was that this morning, after trudging in from my car under a sunless sky only to face a pile of work I don’t want to do, I decided to cheer myself up by checking some blogs. I read several blogs with pictures lovingly posted by parents dutifully chronicling their children’s development.

Then I came upon my own blog. Which I haven’t updated since October. A whole holiday season come and gone without a single picture of my beautiful boy. Now, instead of feeling cheered, I feel sad and guilty.

So now here I am, faced with a choice between updating the blog or figuring out what a scope document for a historical database release is (Bleh! I hate my job!). Easy choice- update the blog!

I have decided to post some pictures from last February. Why on earth would I want to post pictures from such a horrid month? Because last February Grant and I followed the sun to California, where Grant got to meet his Aunt Jojo, Uncle Don, and Cousin Jesse. I also introduced him to the happiest place on earth- Disneyland! Grant was a little young to enjoy most of the rides, but that didn’t stop his mama from going on Space Mountain several times. I’m quite sure it’s impossible not to be happy while in the vicinity of Space Mountain. Even now, sitting at my desk piled with work I do not want to do, the memory and the accompanying pictures make me smile. Enjoy!

The view by Joni's house. Look, the sky is actually blue, not white or grey! Very exotic.

You can't go to Disneyland and not see the light parade!

They can call it Tarzan's tree house all they like- I know it's really the Swiss Family Robinson tree house.

You see that weird light on Joni's left shoulder? That's sunlight!

It was so bright we had to wear shades!