It’s been a while since my last post. I hope you have been able to and continue to enjoy the holiday season with your families.

There has been a lot happening in our household over the last two months. The most notable being the basement project after our sump pump incident. That project is still ongoing but making good progress.

Layton is an absolute joy right now. There is a little sarcasm there but he is really a lot of fun at this age. Everything is “firefighter” right now. His grandpa and uncle are both firefighters so he really loves the idea of being a firefighter. That means everything he wears has to be red or have a fire truck on it. Never mind that grandpa’s fire trucks don’t have a spec of red on them. The most recent example of the “red” syndrome was red socks. He wore the same pair of red socks, without taking them off, for two days straight. I realize two days is not a long time but to not take them off even for bedtime is a little ridiculous. Try and take them off though? Not a chance. It’s not worth trying to convince him the world is not ending over a pair of socks. The next night was bath night so we were able to convince him to take them off. Try and convince him to try using the big boy potty using the “firefighters use the big potty” approach and he says “not me”. Ok, we’re not there yet. The firefighter thing has led to some fun moments as well. We were celebrating Christmas with my wife’s family this past weekend and he opened one of his presents and it was a new fire chief shirtwith fire trucks on and he held it up and yelled so excitedly “IT’S MY BIRTHDAY” with biggest smile on his face. Close enough on the birthday idea. It was priceless.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!