How to know it's time to take down your Christmas decorations.

"Mom, Caleb and I are eating berries."

"Berries?  Where did you get berries?"

"From that moose up there."

 

Anyways, I wasn't thinking of this as Christmas decorations, but more as "Winter Woodland" decorations.  :)

Fashionable

Josiah cracks me up!

Look what Lou & Joel Brought Up the Mountain...

 A sweet double-decker desk for Josiah and Caleb!

 I have painting plans for the metal parts.

These boys have been so messy the last two days.  Sneaking some delicious flour (Josiah has interesting taste), emptying the salt shaker, two eggs broken in the living room....

A Garden Tour

Josiah has been asking to go on a 'garden tour' for months now.  Yesterday we got to play in the yard together while Caleb napped.  We planted some raspberries and a blackberry bush.  When I read the first instruction on the package, "Dig a hole," Josiah immediately started digging a hole in the driveway with his hands.  Too cute. 

He loved watering.  Once when he thought I wasn't watching, he took off for Gwamma's house.  Other than that, we had a fun, uneventful time. 

Baby Josiah

Caleb & His Poppa

A Boy and His Snowman

Happy Valentine's Day!

My power cord for the computer has been missing ever since I did a deep cleaning two Thursdays ago before we had company.  I finally found it today with the help of a list entitled "Where the Power Cord Isn't."  I love lists, and this one really worked!  And in other news, we've discovered a fun new use for spaghetti - actually, we didn't discover it personally.  We read about it, and then tried it for ourselves. 

 That's not it.

 This is!  You cut hot dogs up into coin shapes, skewer them with dry spaghetti noddles, then drop them in boiling water.  If you push 4 noodles through, it becomes an 8-legged octopus that you can watch swim around the pot. 

 And they're tasty, too!  At least Caleb thinks so, I wasn't tempted myself.  Note of warning, the part of the noodles that are inside the hot dogs stay a little crispier than the noodles that poke out the ends. 

Now, this might not look that impressive in the pictures, but in real life it is quite amusing!