holidays, days of holy sickies

unfortunately, both alasdair and myself weren't feeling super hot over christmas. bummer. the fortunate part: we were alone. yet, another bummer.
HEY! really, i don't mean to exude such a downer mode---it was great, actually, and oh so so so snowy. christmas day we had plans to meet up with friends, eat, be merry, all that. our plans were smothered due to 32 inches. of. snow. falling down. on the ground. outside.
and wind. a lot of wind. road closures and stuck plows made for a lovely day indoors. instead of dealing with the storm, we pulled out the trusty 'ol couch bed in the living room and kicked it, family style.
a photo:

and, photos of alasdair opening some gifts... eying gifts.... fixing gifts... creating more gifts.




the gift that we've been most excited about giving him was a flop. he's terrified of it. brobee is a no go, not even yet. there's a show on noggin called 'yo gabba gabba.' it rocks. really---yes, there are some funky looking characters (some may even say a tad bit like telle tubbies)... but they're nothing like those creepy tellies. these guys actually speak. they enunciate. no baby business. and, most importantly, it's all about music. they always sing and have artists on the show to dance, etc. it's great. there's a character named brobee. the partier. so, we got alasdair a mini-brobree. about a foot tall. and when you press a button on his foot, he flails his arms and sings and all that.
well, as i said: horrified. terrified. poor guy. he looks at brobee, then at me and says "no, no, no... hold'choo," which means 'hold me.'
oh well. here he is... the show down.

osha has been doing this for a while now---"i can't hear you." that whole deal. so, when he does it we fake talk, then start talking when he pulls his hands down. so funny. in the car the other day i knew he was doing it, so i said "osh, can you hear me?" immediately he said "no." silly boy.

and there i am (desperately tired and), packing on 'dem "ell bees"... now's the time, if ever :)
so, without much detail, that was our christmas. spent together. it was wonderful.

our new, most exciting news: WE'RE OFF TO NASHVILLE AND CHARLOTTE come february. for a visit. a mama visit---12 days split between ben's mama and mine. ah, so happy.