sniff. kris and odin left today to spend some of the holiday season with family in western michigan, which means they had to pack lots of important things, like toy trucks and cars and trucks and even more cars. all of which can make for a pretty heavy backpack that can make walking out the door a bit a challenge if you’ve not yet mastered on-the-fly center of mass recalculations.

it sure is going to be a quiet week and it’s a little difficult to imagine that after he does finally figure out how to get some forward momentum to race out the door, i won’t see him again for 6 whole days.