Procrastination

I am very excited to be in Arizona for the holidays - see previous post. However, the whole organizing/packing/cleaning part that comes before the hideously long trip...those parts I could do without. These are some of the questions I don't want to think about:

• How many diapers do I need for 28 hours?
• How many different climates will we be exposed to between summer in Argentina, shuttles that may be over air-conditioned or may have no air conditioning. Airports, planes, snow in New York (our lay-over where we plan to just be in the airport but who knows with storms), Arizona winter, while is generaly mild but sometimes chilly??
• How much food do I need for the baby?
• What baby food items will be allowed past security?
• Does he really need toys?? He doesn't use them THAT much yet.
• How many videos does Mario need? Will he even get to watch them?
• Should we bring cards for our 6+ hours in airports, or will we spend all of that time either in security lines or tending to Gabe?
• Will anyone want to see Gabe's immunization record?

And that doesn't even start with what will we want when actually there, and visiting various winter climates, and what size of clothes Gabe may or may not grow into in the next 6 weeks....so I am procrastinating, and posting some cute recent pictures of Gabe instead.

This is his mall Santa picture, and he looks so cute in it, but he is a tiny bug in the middle of this very poorly organzed background.... so I cropped it in closer so you can see how cute my child without shoes is (he won't keep them on).

This is Gabe's friend Felipe who is exactly 6 months older than him. Felipe crawls all around the floor during Relief Society and Gabe laughs histerically watching him, just jumping at the bit to be crawling and join him.

These I took this morning after Gabe got out of the bath, just because he was irresistibly cute.

Here is Mario who did in fact help decorate all 100+ sugar cookies for our neighbors.