Happy New Year!!

We rang in the New Year by jumping into bed at 11:00 and falling asleep. Primarily, my back injury was at the peak of agonizing, we were just too tired to stay up. Mike was even too tired to play video games. Good thing though as Paige went to bed way too late, and as a result woke up at 5:30 asking to go to the bathroom but refusing to go. After this it was a big battle with her waking up again at 6:30 and eventually going to the bathroom at 7:00, and then demanding to sit with me in the loft. By this point there was no reason in trying to put her back to bed, so I said,"you want to get up for the day? fine. Let's turn on the lights!". After this she only wanted to sit with me, so I put on an episode of Project Runway which resulted in this:

She slept for about an hour and a half like this while I had cereal and watched almost 2 episodes of the show.

Paige went to bed late as we were at Katharine and Craig's house until "late"--9:45. Paige was so tired and looked like she was going to pass out while we were there so we left and she fell asleep on the 1 minute 30 second car ride home (they live really close--walkable in summer, but not walkable with injury in the winter cold!). We had a nice dinner, and the 2 girls ran around like crazy people for a few hours making a HUGE mess while we played Beatles Rock Band.