The World We Live In

This is Jude watching Pee-Wee's Playhouse on the IPod. It's amazing how the boys are so good with technology. Quite frankly, I think we're all just a little tired of watching Pee-Wee's Big Adventure on the TV, so this is a good way for Jude to get his fix and the rest of us to keep our sanity! He'll come up to us and say, "wee-wee" or "wee-bee" and that means, "I want to watch Pee-Wee and if you don't put it on for me, I'll continue to make eye contact with you and dance like Pee-Wee until you put the movie on for me." I remember Jackson was like that with tractor movies - I guess we all have our favorites. Little Jude-Man is under the weather now, so we'll let him watch P.W. all he wants - anything to make him feel a little better.

Snow Much Fun

These photos were from last Thursday - the temps were around 30, so we went outside to play in the snow a little. It's been so cold this winter that we've been watching the snow from the warmth of our house. Yeah, I"m ready for spring! Jackson and best buddy, Zachary!
Jude tasting the goodness of snow - remember the Christmas Charlie Brown special where Lucy claims she doesn't eat December snow - only January or February snow? It must be sweeter.....

Me and the boys - yes! That's us on the swings - what the heck; they were up, so why not?

Doesn't Happen Too Often

We very rarely get a photo of Jude where he's agreed to smile @ the camera. Here's a good one - what a cutie. I made his shirt with that iron-on paper you send through your printer. Our little boy is growing up too fast.

Wishful Thinking

Our hammock - sad, sad. I wish we could be laying out there right now..in our shorts..with a lemonade..and not be freezing our tails off! Oh well, wishful thinking. On a good note, the sun is shining as I write :)

Happy MLK Day

Last night I was getting my clothes ready for work today. Jackson said, "Mom, why do you have to work on 3 king's day?" I thought that was so cute. Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Jackson called it, "Marthen Lootnern Jr Day").

Looking forward to the inaguration tomorrow!

Our Snow Day Obsessions!

Jackson had a snow day on Wednesday; boy, I miss those :(. Anyway, Jackson thoroughly enjoyed zoning out to SpongeBob (who doesn't?) and Jude pulled his seat up to the window waiting for the snow plow to come past. It looks like Jackson will enjoy several more snow days before the end of school, which he reports he's been in for, "81 days so far."

Back to Basics

So Jeremy found an really old (I mean like 100 years old) cast iron skillet @ Gram's house. He asked to borrow it for an experiment. He brought it home, cleaned it up, and we put it on top of our wood stove. Yesterday we attempted making pancakes and eggs on it. It didn't work as well as we were hoping - our wood stove has several layers of filters the prevents the top from getting too hot - we still were able to pull off a few pancakes and an egg. It was fun - kinda primitive, but fun to experiment!