Snow Play

A week or two ago, it was warm enough for Lori to take the kids out to play in the snow. What I like about these pictures is that Sean is giving us actual, genuine smiles. Which is pretty unusual for him. Normally, he's either stone-faced (and sometimes looking drugged) or has some big, fake, toothy smile plastered on his face. But these pleasant little grins really make me happy to see.

The Face of Evil


I must have taken this picture at Sean's birthday party, although I don't really remember taking it. Doesn't he look evil? I'm now officially afraid to sleep at night.

Toe Lint

Carter has acquired a strange fascination with toe lint. Every time her socks come off, she's right in there digging around. We've tried telling that it's gross, but I think that just makes her like it even more. Her favorite phrase for maximum Grammie gross-out is "a booger on toe lint". Every time she says that, she then cracks up laughing at her own cleverness.

Zonked

The other day, the kids were playing in the living room while Lori and I were in the kitchen. It got awfully quiet in there, so I went to investigate. Sean was watching Bob the Builder, and playing quietly with his blocks. But Carter was completely zonked out on the couch. A few minutes after this picture was taken, she fell over onto her side and woke up, bleary-eyed and confused. It was adorable.

What a Cutie!

These are just a couple of cute photos of Carter that I took Christmas morning. Isn't she such a sweetie? She was making goofy faces at me all morning, and I managed to catch a couple of them for your viewing pleasure.

Christmas Morning, 2008

A little belated, but here are some pictures from Christmas morning. This was definitely the best Christmas so far with the kids. They really started getting the idea this year. For a few weeks before Christmas, they were constantly talking about Santa, and how he was going to come down the chimney and eat our cookies, and then leave us presents. They were really excited that morning, and as we came downstairs they were just bouncing with excitement. We didn't get any pictures of the actual present-opening process, but here are some of them playing later that morning with some of their new toys.


Gingerbread House

We finally got the laptop back from ASUS, and luckily they didn't have to wipe the hard drive. We had downloaded all of our Christmas pictures onto the laptop the same morning it broke, so we thought that they might be gone forever. These photos are from while we were stuck up north during the ice storm. I had picked up a gingerbread house kit to try to give them something to do. We ended up having a really great time putting it together, aided more than a little bit by them eating large quantities of the frosting as we were decorating.


Wishbone

This past Thanksgiving, I pulled the wishbone out of the turkey for the kids to try. Once it had completely dried out, I explained to them what they should do with it. At first, they looked at me like I had lost my marbles. Why exactly do we make wishes while we break an animal's bones? Once I convinced them what to do, they did seem to enjoy it, though.

Grandma King

Grandma King has been helping us out with the kids a ton lately. Between doctor's appointments, and Sean's preschool screening, and getting the van to and from the shop - I don't what we would have done without her. I love this picture - don't they just look so happy with her?