They called in the Winter Wallop on TV. It was the same night as my company's Christmas Party and the first time we have left Monster with someone since we moved. Through a group to which I belong, we found a great high school student to watch Monster. None of us realized that her shift was going to last as long as it did and that we would be waking up her parents at 1:00 am in order to pick her up.
She came by the night before for a walk through and to say hi to Monster. She was very impressive. She had a list of questions, some were things Mr and I hadn't yet thought of! We took Monster to his favorite bounce house the day of, and had him all ready for bed when she got here. When we got home, she said he watched a few movies and eventually fell asleep. Apparently, he woke up briefly, then when back to school. From the state of the house, he seemed to have moved from the futon (where he lays-or is it lies?-down watching his movies) to the bedroom and back again. He woke up when we got home (which was after midnight thanks to the storm-see picture above) and started crying. He grabbed my hand and said "mommy", when I answered I was there, he said "daddy" and wouldn't calm down until Mr. came in and held his hand. It was so sad and so sweet at the same time.
The snow was coming down really bad by that point and we couldn't get either the car or the truck out of our driveway, so S had to call her dad to have him pick her up. We were a bit embarrassed, but oh well. S did say she would be willing to babysit again, so it couldn't have been too horrible. Monster seemed to have come through the whole thing ok.
We woke the next morning to everything being covered in snow. The news said that Newport (the island to the east of us) got 20", so I imagine we got something near that. The car was buried and the wind was high. It was absolutely beautiful. Mr. got quite a workout shoveling us out. Monster really enjoyed playing in the snow.
Since his birthday party last weekend, we've been having him open his presents, one or so each night. This was a monster truck jump that he really liked.
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