Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

sled day

My friend Nat took these pictures of the kids the day our families went sledding together about a week ago - umh maybe two. I think she was a professional photographer in a previous life.

January poem

Andrew learns a new poem at school every month. This month is:

A chubby little snowman
had a carrot for a nose
along came a bunny
and what do you suppose
that hungry little bunny
looking for some lunch
ate that snowman's nose
with a nibble nibble crunch.

This is his picture to go with it. The bunny is soooo cute! (the white poof in the lower right corner -two ears on top, four legs and a cotton tail).

The worlds worst snowman

I decided I could probably do the stay at home mom thing... and I know why stay at home moms say they are never home. We went to the dinosaur museum, a 3-D dinosaur IMAX movie, the aquarium, a New Years Eve party, sledding, had a snowball fight,

went to grandmas to make shrinky dinks, played with modeling clay one day and made plaster molds on another, went for a bike ride (it's been really nice out considering it's winter) and made the worlds worst snowman. No surprise when you figure in that I've never made a snowman in my life and I had in-experienced help, but it was fun. And I finally got a picture of the gaps. Shhh, don't tell him I posted it :)



Happy New Year!

Andrew

This is one of my favorite pictures from Christmas. Nathan still doesn't like smiling - more gaps than teeth. And I swear he's going on 13. For he used to be a cooperative kid, now letting mom take his picture isn't cool anymore. Andrew is more than cooperative, which is a change, he just usually doesn't sit still long enough.

Baby it's cold outside!

I'm not fond of hot places, although they are sounding intriguing about now. It was in the teens before Christmas and then right before break it went back into the thirties. It felt like a heat wave. Thirty would be welcome now. It's been around sixteen for a week now. And on top of the inversion we have fog, lots of fog. A few days we've been barley able to see the fence line in the back yard or even across the street, although it's doing really cool frosty design things on the trees.



I took off work a few days before Christmas and this entire week to spend with the kids while they were on break. I've never done that before. Somehow it seems brave (I really admire stay at home moms who do this every day - altough I hear they aren't home much). Today was our first day really since Dad went back to work. We had to return a gift to a store in Lehi so we went to the Dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point. Played in sand, played in sand again, made fossils out of plaster, watched a 3D dinosaur movie, had lunch and then stopped by the library on the way home. We got back not much before dad. I think tomorrow we'll stay home the whole day.