Happy New Year - 2006 !
Toast!
Put Jacob to bed at 11:30 after playing at Maya's house and celebrating New Year's at 9:00 (midnight East Coast time). Actually, trying to get everybody into the same room in time for the countdown proved difficult so we didn't get around to the countdown until about 9:08. But if you aren't gonna stay up all the way until midnight why quibble over 8 minutes? We had about 12 two-year olds all jumping up and down shouting "happy new year" - was the cutest thing you could imagine. I got a call from my good friend Rob Sowers from Vegas around the same time. "Sow" doesn't have kids and so continues our "bad boy" New Year's Eve tradition in my honor. Somehow the contrast of Sow calling hammered from Paris Hilton's New Year's party in Vegas put into perspective just how much my life has changed. So at midnight I had to at least break out a little bubbly to feel real.
Home in time to get Jacob to bed where he insisted on licking a marshmellow ("do not bite it, Daddy!") as he went to sleep and still made it downstairs to see Regis do the countdown and "wet the baby's head" (as they say in England) with Papa / Kay.
Happy New Year! Could it really already be 2006?
posted by Mark Suster at 11:47 AM
1 Comments:
Hi there, Tania and Mark and many, many congrats to you both on the arrival of "Andy." Quite a memorable New Year for you both.
Do I detect a slight disdain for the British NHS??? Let's face it in the UK if you get a bed that's not in a corridor you are lucky....and grateful. I suppose you get what you pay for.
You are right about second children - much less photography, recording of momentous events etc. I too, began with a big feeling of guilt but on the other hand this 2nd, (or 3rd/4th....) is getting a much easier ride. His parents know what they are doing at least - with the first its a huge learning curve for all! As you said, also, pushing the babe out is much easier second time around too! Hey maybe by the 4th time its like shelling peas! Ask Kay, the woman of experience in these matters. I are not likely to find that out.
Glad to hear you have kept some English lingo to mind ( wet the baby's head) except this is normally done in a pub drinking beer and is a male exclusive zone.
I/we wish you all the best, many, many happy moments with Andy and tell him to get learning how to suck quickly. Far too toe curlingly painful for mum to bear, let alone to endure the sleepless nights that go with it.
Bonne Année 2006!
A big kiss to Jacob.
With all our love,
Geraldine, Andrea, Carla & Luca Manunta
7:26 AM
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