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Hi there!  Well, you can tell that reality sunk in again, due to my lack of blog posts!  Once we got back to school and work, all of my fun, "free" time was gone!!  We've been well - staying busy but today enjoying the day off!  We're heading to the zoo (probably along with the rest of the Tampa Bay area), but it will be fun.  We'll try to get there right as it opens, since we were conveniently up at 5:45 this morning.  Mr. Alarm  Clock, aka Bear Cub, wakes up even EARLIER when there is no school.  Does this make sense!?!?  He may be asleep by the time we leave for the zoo!!  :)  One cute picture from a trip to the aquarium...you can see his pure joy over the stuffed moray eel that he had bought with some Christmas money.  Oh my.  :)

Here's what we do in Florida after Christmas...

Just a few pics from the day after Christmas...it was WARM this year!!  Now we're into some chilly weather for a day or 2.  Bear Cub even swam in Mimi Bear's UN-heated pool a few days after Christmas...now that was just plain CRAZY to me.  My blood is not as thick as a Russian's apparently!  ;)  Enjoy!

Christmas 2011

Bear Cub had a great Christmas this year!  He continues to love his little creatures...anything from the "junk" department, as I like to say!  If it's rubbery or plastic, and some kind of critter...he will love it!  He was happy with his stocking stuffers of rubbery fun and also seemed pretty happy about his new scooter!  He has been into ocean animals here lately too, so he loves his new ocean books and bins full of ocean animals!  We have more animals around here than we can keep track of!  It was just the 3 of us (well 4, counting Zoe) on Christmas morning and into the afternoon.   Grandma & Grandpa, along with Aunt S, Uncle T and their girls, came over later in the day for a delicious Christmas dinner.  BC had fun with his cousins and they were SO cute opening their presents...talk about excitement!  It was another wonderful Christmas!  We are all so fortunate!!  :)