January--cold but dry

It was hard to wake up for school the first day back after Christmas vacation.  Too much staying-up-late/getting-up-late.

This little guy loves to smile and say "cheese" for the camera

Uncle Dan brought over an old sled from Dean and Dan's childhood.  Supposedly it's really good, and can steer a bit.  We haven't had a chance to test it yet, but Liam loved getting rides around the house before we put it away in the garage

As of Christmas, everybody in the household now has Batman pajamas.  So we've had a couple of Batman Pajama days!

On the first one, Dean had to take his off to go to the Broncos game (poor Dean.) So we didn't get pictures until the second time we did this.

We have capes, too!

The boys started to go stir crazy around the house during a cold spell.  I didn't really want to play outside, but they needed to run around.  So one day we went out to a nearby mall, which has this indoor play area.

It's full of climb-on Looney Tunes characters.  It used to be giant breakfast foods, but they got sponsorship for a new play area a few years ago.

Tunnels are always a hit

...and not just for the kids

This was a very tight fit, by the way

We decided it was time to move Liam into a booster chair and sit him at the table with the rest of us.

All we'd been waiting for was some chair protectors to keep the upholstery clean, and we purchased those on our trip to the mall.

So now Liam's at the table like a big boy!

Myself and the boys, pressed into the giant pin board thing at the museum

My Uncle John got Robin a Stomp Rocket for Christmas--an air-powered foam rocket that shoots quite far into the air.  Robin kept bugging me to set this up, but we needed a nice day to do so.  I didn't want him doing it in the house--I feared for all our high-up breakables.  Finally, we got a nice day and gave it a whirl.

It really does shoot high.  Robin had a ton of fun.  (I had to take, like, 15 pictures before I finally got a good action sequence like these.  It just moved too fast for pictures.)

We've since brought this to the park to share with some friends on a playdate, and lost one of the rockets.  But it came with four, so we're still in business.  This was fun, thanks, Uncle John and Aunt Nikki!

Baby Big Boy in a diaper box

Aunt Kat gave the boys some really giant marshmallows, so we lit a candle and tried to make indoor s'mores.  And then we gave up and nuked the things for 10 seconds, because a candle just takes too darn long.

Tasty, but messy.  I don't think Liam liked the stickiness much.  For that matter, neither did Robin. He was very eager to get his hands wiped off

Yum!

Life has gone back to normal since the holidays ended, and all the decorations got put away.  Preschool is back in session.  Life got disrupted again by a cold, though, and poor Liam's lungs only just recovered.  I'm sorry that he inherited my shoddy lungs.  At least we have drugs to treat him, although their time-consuming nature (15-30 minutes of sitting still--in front of a TV, that's the only way he'll cooperate--to breathe in a nebulizer treatment) really messes up our day.  But the drugs work, so we're happy.  Not much else has been going on--just normal life.  And I'm almost caught up to the present here, with pictures!  Hurrah!