MERRY CHRISTMAS!

A bit late...

We are having a nice time in KC! Christmas was lovely, and we are especially enjoying playing with our newest family member, V, and watching her make funny faces. Pictures soon!

Hope everyone is having a happy, peaceful holiday.

Scenario

Crash!!

"M4!"

Silence. Pitter patter of feet.

"M4, come in here!"

Silence.

"M4?"

From the other room:"Huh?"

"What was that?!"

"The door."

"What happened to it?"

"I ran into it."

Snow day!!

Sick day/snow day

M4 is home sick today. He just has a cold, but he is coughing a lot. I thought I'd let him get some extra rest. I want him to be well before Christmas so he doesn't have to wear a mask around his new baby cousin!!

School is getting out two hours early anyway in anticipation of an ice storm later this afternoon. Noooooo!!! Snow, I'm OK with...ice, not so much. We've already had one early out this week due to snow and one real snow day (was that just last week???!!). I wish I could post my favorite snow day song...it's on one of my favorite kids' albums:

Also on this album, Cake sings Mhana Mhana (sp?...y'know, The Muppet Song). Sweet!

Little fish

Here's our little fish in her 50 freestyle event last Saturday. Grampa brought his cool mini digital video cam. Thanks, Grampa! She got first in her heat but fourth out of 13 overall. In her 50 backstroke, she got second overall out of 11. She is in the lane just to the right of the cone.

Birthday pics!

Some pics of M4's birthday celebration(s):

From our family party on Wednesday with an ice cream cake:From his party yesterday with all his buddies: The AMAZING dinosaur cake Daddy made for him:

His new Webkins pet:

Unrelated photo from his concert of Latin American music on Friday night:

Happy Birthday M4!!

You are so sweet and sensitive and snuggly; also, able to make explosion noises for hours on end and a willing participant (most of the time) in your sister's scenarios. You really are our ray of sunshine every day...how did you get to be six??

Steph won!

She won the Miami Unscene photo contest, so she gets to go to LA and compete with the other finalists (all men...ahem). Good luck in LA, Steph!

M4 is reading!

He read almost the whole Foot Book last night! Of course, much of it is repetitive so there's a fair amount of memorization, but you can tell he's recognizing the words and letters. I'll try to get a video posted.

Vote for Steph...

My cousin Stephanie Stalnaker is a finalist in a photo contest in Miami. Please vote for her to win: http://www.944.com/rsvp/unscene/index.phpx!

If she wins, she will move up to the national level of competition! I would post one of her pictures, but right now her site is overloading my ancient (in computer years) CPU. You can go look at her amazing pics yourself: http://stephaniestalnaker.com/.

Go Steph!

P.S. Your photos are making me painfully envious of your home climate.

High score!

How is it that all this time I never knew I could set my phone to start up and shut down to sound effects from one of my favorite 80s arcade games???!! The only problem is I can't identify which game...it's driving me crazy!!!! It's got to be Galaga or Ms. PacMan, since those were my two favorites. OMG, I just discovered you can play these games online for free! Think of all the money I could have saved at that Dairy Queen on 63rd...and all the time I could waste now.

How do you make snow ice cream?

Gather your ingredients. (When it has snowed 24 hours in a row, snow is easy to come by...)And your helpers... Mix the ingedients thoroughly...

Consume massive quantities!!