Sledding!!

Over break this year we went to Ohio as usual and the kids were blessed with snow (and freezing cold temps.) Is was fun to get them all bundled up and head outside. I loved seeing them all dressed up with hats, snow bibs, gloves, scarves, boots... quite a process to get it all on but they looked like cute little snow people! And just like Skylar was last year, Jimmy could only walk a few feet before the weight of it all would make him fall over!!

Skylar was a rock star at sledding right away. She instinctively knew to put her hand out to steer and she even tried some trick moves like going down on her belly a few times. Jimmy was less sure but he loved it all the same. He went down with Jim several times and didn't seem to mind when they would wipe out! It is a good thing they have a strong daddy! Once they got to the bottom of the hill they wanted him to carry them and their sleds back to the top over and over again. We can't wait to do it again next year!

Retangled?

Over Christmas break Gogo took us (me, Jim, Gogo, and Skylar) to see Tangled. We got popcorn and candy too. I hope she knows she won't get those when mommy's paying the bill :) Anyway, Skylar loved every minute of it and all the rest of us did too! I even cried... shhhhh, don't tell! Skylar sat still and quiet the whole movie except to ask a few key questions. "Is that a mean witch?" "Why her so mean?" things like that. When the anticipation started to build, Skylar crawled up onto her daddy's lap and watched the rest from there.

Later that night and the next night and the next night she recapped the whole movie for us. It is so funny to me that she continues to tell me the story as if I wasn't there. "Mommy, remember when the old lady loved the girl just for her magical hair?" Mommy, do you remember that girl's boyfriend helped saved her?" Since Skylar kept calling her, that girl, I mentioned her name was Rapunzel. Well, this obviously got mixed up with the fact that the movie is called Tangled so now, Skylar refers to her as, Retangled!! Oh so cute. It is all she can talk about and I love that she loved her very first movie. We even got her a nice Tangled ornament to hang on the tree each year as a reminder of our first ever movie theatre trip!

Things I want to blog about

It seems every time I think about something I want to blog about I am no where near a computer. Then, later, I forget to write about whatever it was. So here is my list of things to write about someday!!

1. Skylar can now swing all by herself! (when did she get so big??)

2. Pidoccio (our visiting elf)

3. Foot bawwwwl (Jimmy is obsessed with football)

4. Santa's Wonderland (and all the funny quotes that go with it)

5. Dare Devil Jimmy (seriously, how does he get on top of the table that quickly?)

6. Obsessed (why does my daughter think she is a cat?)

And of course, there are a million other little day to day things that I never want to forget. The way both Skylar and Jimmy says certain words. The questions Skylar thinks to ask and the way Jimmy is so stubborn and sweet at the same time. I am loving this stage.... even if I am exhausted :) So, here's hopping I can actually blog about all these things in the next few days and that you will actually be interested enough to read them!