January means cold, cold, cold and lots of snow!

Happy New Years… a few days late of course.  We had a nice little party at our house to watch the ball drop.  Sadly, our party was not the most exciting, and everyone ended up sitting in the living room watching one person at a time play Chicken Shoot on the Wii (don’t ask).  Then we watched some questionable musical dance routines on the various New Year’s programs… the one we found the most enjoyable and family-friendly was one of the spanish (Mexican?) networks, go figure!One exciting moment for me (before the ball drop… that’s *always* exciting) was when Mom…

December 28th, 2009, 03:08 pm Cute dreaming Arin’s talked in his sleep before, but the other night he was dreaming about Santa Claus and presents. He said Santa, and box, open box, open present. And a few other things, it was so adorable. <3

We had a large storm, the first of the ‘official’ winter season. I’m not counting the storm we had earlier in the year, because that was just uncalled for. Now, though, we have enough to ensure a “white Christmas”… probably. We got almost a foot of snow last week and let me tell you, it was heavy and not at all fun to shovel. This “storm” was only an inch or two and came a few days before the big one… but the snow was very wet and stayed on the trees for days, so pretty!

This year Arin discovered he has a deep and abiding love for *candy canes*. He is always asking for more, and is very excited every time he gets offered one. He doesn’t lick or suck on it like a normal person, however… he crunches them down to nothing in record time. Guess he’s just too impatient to sit there and enjoy it, he’s got to chomp it up as fast as possible!

Arin is just like his mommy… he loves cameras. He’s constantly trying to get at mine to look at the pictures, and now whenever I grab it to take a picture of him, he stops what he’s doing, runs up to me and tries to grab it out of my hand! I told him he can’t touch the camera UNTIL he smiles and gives me a nice picture… so finally he got the idea! How cute? And thanks to Juju and Lauren for this dapper Gant sweater that was one of Arin’s awesome Christmas presents. Here’s the original ‘gimme gimme…

This year was Bobo’s second time Trick-or-Treating. Last year I had to carry him up to each house to get the candy, but this year he was loving running from door to door to do it himself! He loves candy, so he was ecstatic to grab a piece (or three) or take those that were handed to him. He usually remembered to say ‘tick o tweet’ and ‘tank ooo’. So cute! Getting his bag all prepared to hold tons of candy, and having Dracula help him get his shoes on. It was the PERFECT night for Trick-or-Treating. The forecast was…