I have a question. How exactly is it possible that Thanksgiving has already come and gone when it was just January yesterday? I know I always say that Mila is bad at time, but apparently that's a contagious condition because I don't know where this year went. It just *poof*. We have not had 11 months in 2019. I don't believe it.
But now that somehow it's freakin' December, there is a whole lot of Christmas-ing to do. Alas, I took the girls to Phipps for the holiday lights.
That was a very good choice.
Mila in public places like Phipps is an interesting experiment in insanity. That girl has more enthusiasm than can be contained, so she's not contained. She runs around like a wild animal, very literally climbing walls and teetering on the verge of destruction. Somehow she never actually breaks anything, but I think it's luck. She certainly gives it her best attempts.
Even as the kid is the most exhausting 32 pounds of vibrating chaos that has ever existed, she's also the most enthusiastic 32 pounds of vibrating chaos that ever existed. Mila is amazed by EVERYTHING and she always lets you know. Every single room that we walked into at Phipps was "So BEAUTIFUL!" and "THIS IS MY FAVORITE!" She loved the lights, the flowers ... everything.
She especially loved the trains.
It wasn't surprising at all that Mila wanted to spend hours running in a circle pushing every button so that every train would move, but it was surprising that she got that exact opportunity. Now that we've already done it, let me just admit to you that the best time to Phipps is late on a Sunday night. The place was empty.
Seriously.
The only problem with Mila's every train dream coming true is that now she wants to go back every single day and do it again and again and again. It's not going to be that empty every single day, so I'm not sure how that's going to work out for her. Besides, I need to sleep for about a month to make up for all the energy I lost trying to keep up with her ... and maybe that explains why 2019 seems to have disappeared into thin air. It's passed me by as I tried to keep up with Mila.