Time to visit Santa Claus! We happened to see one of my favorite Santas… this guy is so personable with kids.  He greeted these guys with, “You’re here!  It’s been a whole year since I’ve seen you!” Thumper was okay with being on Santa’s lap for about 10 seconds, and then began to cry.  Mommy […]

This was Tad’s last art class of the month (boo).  I guess it’s just easier to take off the same vacation time as the school district. Anyway, the lesson was about proportions and highlights.  So they drew a reindeer in charcoal. His teacher told me that Tad was a little upset that they weren’t “coloring” […]

On Friday, the kids woke up to three inches of snow and a day off of school!  The boys barely stopped to eat breakfast, but I insisted that they had to.  Mostly because I had to scrounge up enough cold weather/water resistant gear to send them outside. Eventually, the boys had coats, hats, boots, scarves […]

Here we are at Tad’s first Christmas.  It was 2005.  The year before had been Ane’s first Christmas, and she had been an active toddler who was getting into things.  Tad was only 4 1/2 months old. It was great, because he was too little to get into anything and his only method of movement […]