Snowy day crafts and poor Adam

What's more fun than doing crafts? Doing crafts in a tent! Its amazing how much more interesting it was to color under a blanket. Whatever works!

(Sorry buddy. Not for you, Adam.)

Then we pulled out the scissors and made snowflakes.

(Sorry Buddy. Not for you Adam.)

And we had to hang them up, of course.

(Sorry Buddy. Not for you, Adam.)

Sorry Adam, we'll play your game next! (don't worry, no Adams were too sad during the making of this film)

Adam's one year check up

Aside from the mild bronchitis and ear infection, Adam's one year check up went well. Here's his stats:

22 pounds 45%

31 inches 76%

He is signing (airplane, nurse, all done, more, water,music, hi, and his favorite: open), walking well, going up and down stairs. He has continued to get more picky about food. We're down to cereals, cracker, hummus, and sometimes meat. But he's healthy and happy. We're glad he's ours!

Identity crisis

As you can tell, I've been playing around with the blog's personality a lot lately. I just can't seem to settle on one style. No promises, but maybe I'll stick with this one for a little while. Thanks for hanging in there with me.

Jenny

Better than the smell of eggs

Laura, holding her nose: "Ewww, I don't like the smell of eggs."

Me, trying to distract: "Did you know that Aunt Kim is coming to see us tomorrow?"

Laura: "Well, that's better than the smell of eggs."

There you go, sister. You are better than the smell of eggs.

Laura's song today

We spent about 30 minutes today dancing. Laura would sing and I would dance around the room trying to "exercise". I'm sure it was beautiful and graceful. Out of all her songs, here's the only one I could remember.

Snowflakes falling from the sky

Teranadon and T Rex

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Snowflakes falling from the sky

Aunt Emma's Teddy Bear Bread

My Aunt Emma surprised us with a cuddly teddy bear on Sunday. It was a huge hit with Laura and it was delicious. What a sweet gift.

Nutcracker Ballet

Adam, I'm sorry you inherited your parents' dancing skills.

Kitchen fun

Laura has been really interested in helping in the kitchen lately. Its a nice break for me from pretending Bambi and Dinosaur Train.

She measures, mixes, and peels. We tried stirring on the stove and she was so careful and patient.

I'm glad we are getting to spend this time together.

Hover disk toy

Library

I checked out 4 novels and 1 set of short stories from the library today. Five long books. I don't know what I was thinking. I just kept seeing interesting titles and titles I faintly remembered that I might want to read some day. It has been months since I read a book other than a child's book. I love to read, but it seems like I have to pick either knitting or reading to fill my evenings and lately I've been picking knitting. But I guess I subconsciously decided to get back into reading. But I still have several knitting projects that I want to try. But I like to take books on trips, like the upcoming Christmas trip. But but but...