Posted by Bree
Wednesday, December 31
Tuesday, December 30
Saturday, December 27
62 and Sunny
Today's weather was a real treat :-)
It was really windy, but so wonderful to get a taste of spring in late December.
Evan had a lot of bottled up energy (as anyone with little boys knows well). He took off at full speed on his bike for some around-the-block racing!
... and was completely drenched within 3 minutes of leaving the house.
The whole neighborhood had flooded sidewalks so he was pretty excited! Around every corner was a new enormous puddle to spray through. We did have to take a riding break to throw some ice chunks around.
After walking all around several blocks, we came back home for some more drenching fun:
You have to enlarge this one to really see that face!
Chloe was pretty tolerant of the wind today, but she did say more than once "I'm blowing away! Pick me up!" (remember last year when she used to hold her piggy-tails close to her head and cry because she thought they were going to blow off?)
She is such an observer when we are outside. She studies things and notices the tiniest details.
She always collects sticks, berries, leaves...
By the afternoon (since Chloe didn't take nap again) we were able to go into the backyard which wasn't so soggy as it was in the morning. Todd was moving around some of his ladders, and Evan thought it was a good day for climbing onto the garage roof. Why not? All that wind didn't scare him!!
After lots of swinging and several games of chase, tag, and hide-n-seek we were all tuckered out and finally went inside for dinner.
Total time spent outside today:
3.5 hours
:-)
Posted by Bree
It was really windy, but so wonderful to get a taste of spring in late December.
Evan had a lot of bottled up energy (as anyone with little boys knows well). He took off at full speed on his bike for some around-the-block racing!
... and was completely drenched within 3 minutes of leaving the house.
The whole neighborhood had flooded sidewalks so he was pretty excited! Around every corner was a new enormous puddle to spray through. We did have to take a riding break to throw some ice chunks around.
After walking all around several blocks, we came back home for some more drenching fun:
You have to enlarge this one to really see that face!
Chloe was pretty tolerant of the wind today, but she did say more than once "I'm blowing away! Pick me up!" (remember last year when she used to hold her piggy-tails close to her head and cry because she thought they were going to blow off?)
She is such an observer when we are outside. She studies things and notices the tiniest details.
She always collects sticks, berries, leaves...
By the afternoon (since Chloe didn't take nap again) we were able to go into the backyard which wasn't so soggy as it was in the morning. Todd was moving around some of his ladders, and Evan thought it was a good day for climbing onto the garage roof. Why not? All that wind didn't scare him!!
After lots of swinging and several games of chase, tag, and hide-n-seek we were all tuckered out and finally went inside for dinner.
Total time spent outside today:
3.5 hours
:-)
Posted by Bree
Friday, December 26
The Christmas Wrap Up
We celebrated Christmas with two fun-filled present opening ceremonies :-)
First Christmas was at my Mom's house on the Sunday before Christmas. Lots of kids and chaos... but we all survived! Here are some of my favorite moments:
Chloe was sweetly sitting and very focused on tearing up paper. Such a dainty girl sometimes.
She got a Clifford DVD set that I'm sure will get a lot of use this winter!
Some new pet-shops...
...and lots of other goodies of which most of my pictures are blurry :-(
Here's a cool bulldozer...
Some k-nex...
A green quad...
He takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r to open his pile of presents. Always has, probably always will.
Even the quad had to steal a glance at that artwork :-)
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Second Christmas was actually on Christmas day and we traveled to Cleveland to be with Todd's family for the day. Such a nice visit :-)
Chloe did the same routine again, sitting pretty and ripping neatly... she was tired from the long drive, so there weren't a lot of smiles during the opening... but she did love her gifts!
Fuzzy slippers :-)
Snowman and some new playmobil figures
and lots of goodies in her stocking :-)
Back to being soooo serious....
Cool animal book...
New monster truck t-shirt...
And his main gift from us was a NEW kitten family to call his own....
So soft and clean!!!
Immediately after opening these he handed all his four old ones over to Chloe and the entire OLD kitten family (her original two plus his old four) became her "gift."
This has brought much peace to our home :-) and to the sibling relationship in general... observe:
And to all of you who might have been expecting Christmas cards from us with a nice current family photo in them... um, we didn't do one this year... sorry!... Maybe we will get around to mailing out at least a photo sometime in January. We have to actually get one of those first. For now, we are working on Evan's smile and Chloe responding well to flash photography...
Things aren't looking too promising.
But at least you can see us here :-) and aren't those new Christmas jammies the cutest??
Merry Christmas!!
Posted by Bree
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First Christmas was at my Mom's house on the Sunday before Christmas. Lots of kids and chaos... but we all survived! Here are some of my favorite moments:
Chloe was sweetly sitting and very focused on tearing up paper. Such a dainty girl sometimes.
She got a Clifford DVD set that I'm sure will get a lot of use this winter!
Some new pet-shops...
...and lots of other goodies of which most of my pictures are blurry :-(***********************
Evan approaches presents differently -- he gets into all kinds of positions to tear, rip and dismantle packaging and paper. He is so very serious, it's comical.Here's a cool bulldozer...
Some k-nex...
A green quad...
He takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r to open his pile of presents. Always has, probably always will.***********************
Both the kids got a swirl paint set to share and it was a HUGE hit the next day when we tried it out.
Even the quad had to steal a glance at that artwork :-)
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Chloe did the same routine again, sitting pretty and ripping neatly... she was tired from the long drive, so there weren't a lot of smiles during the opening... but she did love her gifts!
Fuzzy slippers :-)
Snowman and some new playmobil figures
and lots of goodies in her stocking :-)
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Evan, as usual, was all business. He got a race track that I think sparked his interest. Can you tell??
Back to being soooo serious....
Cool animal book...
New monster truck t-shirt...
And his main gift from us was a NEW kitten family to call his own....So soft and clean!!!
Immediately after opening these he handed all his four old ones over to Chloe and the entire OLD kitten family (her original two plus his old four) became her "gift."
This has brought much peace to our home :-) and to the sibling relationship in general... observe:
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So, there you have it... sorry it took so long to get this up on here (Liz! I know you were waiting!) but we just spent such a nice day together here, playing and talking and lounging, that I just had to wait till after the kiddos were in bed.And to all of you who might have been expecting Christmas cards from us with a nice current family photo in them... um, we didn't do one this year... sorry!... Maybe we will get around to mailing out at least a photo sometime in January. We have to actually get one of those first. For now, we are working on Evan's smile and Chloe responding well to flash photography...
Things aren't looking too promising.But at least you can see us here :-) and aren't those new Christmas jammies the cutest??
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