Enzo woke us up with his music again, and was in a sweet mood. It was so cold this morning, he wanted to play outside in the big pile of dirt and peat that was delivered a few days ago. We bundled him up and let him sit in the pile with his trowel and shovel and the dogs and he was in heaven. Mommy made him a small cup of his first hot chocolate. We tried to take our Christmas photo, but couldn't get all of them to cooperate at once. We will try again tomorrow.

After his dirt and hot chocolate, we cleaned up and headed out for some breakfast. He had some fruit and had fun watching the trains. We tried to see the crane, but they weren't working today. We went to the bookstore and he picked out a shark book.

We tried to get his hair cut but he got tired and we realized it was an exercise in futility. We went to Play-Well to get our backyard playground order in - we were told to get the order in well before Christmas so we would avoid the rush. We are very excited!

At home we watched some Planet Earth - he was particularly enamored with a giant salamander from Japan as well as the river otters and the fresh water fish. He had some lunch then took a nice long nap.

We took a walk after his nap - we had planned to walk down to the Rose Bowl in order to get a look at the blimp, but the game ended as we were heading down and the blimp flew directly overhead on its way home. Enzo was so excited to see it so close and so loud. We fed the ducks and Enzo quacked and quacked even though he was too nervous to give the big duck any bread himself. He has been nipped once too many times! He surprised us by pointing to the coots and saying, "coot". Even Zoe did not know what they were.

We had a nice dinner out and he ate well. We went to the pet store after dinner for kitty litter and he got to see the turtles, lizards, chinchillas, fish, and mice...but his absolute favorite was the chameleon with its googly eyes. He couldn't say "chameleon" but he would say "eye"

He was funny and sweet all day today.