Generational Transmission

Last weekend, James was excited to teach Daddy cribbage (although they did have to do a FaceTime consultation with Grandpa about some of the rules!)

100 Legos

The boys were very excited about their 100 Lego tower! (Mike is out of town, so they wanted me to take a picture to send to him.)

One Tooth Down

Mattie lost one of his top front teeth last night, and the one next to it is barely hanging on -- I wouldn't be surprised if it's gone in the morning!

(Poor kiddo has been home sick from school the last couple of days, but hopefully he'll be okay for tomorrow.)

A Litany of Ills

 So the last few days of the vacation brought quite an array of maladies -- three urgent care visits, a pediatric ER visit (turned out Daniel's persistent fever was caused by the flu), and a (fortunately brief) hospital stay for Grandpa (dehydration and pneumonia, likely caused by one of the several viruses floating around).  And did we mention the flat tire?

Someone joked that we should just put a tent over the house and have it decontaminated! (Perhaps fogging with Lysol and Tamiflu?)

It was great to see everyone nonetheless, and hopefully 2016 will only get better from here!

Second Christmas

 The children made short work of the second round of present-opening!  Just imagine a cloud of flying wrapping paper and you'll have about the right idea.  :)  Everyone was very pleased with their gifts.  Daniel even made sure the dogs each had a bag of holiday treats. (Ernie got to open his himself.)

A Little Different

 Well, we are definitely not at Grandma and Grandpa's house any more!  As you can see there's not too much snow, but Matthew and James were eager to break out their shovels anyhow.  (The top two pictures are Matthew and the bottom ones are James.)  Matthew also liked the little patch of ice on the porch that made his "skating rink."

The high was only around 15 degrees today, but it bounces back up to high 20s tomorrow, and according to the forecast, we may even see 40s later this week.

Happy New Year!

 The boys welcomed the New Year with light and noise!  Matthew and James were excited about us waking them up at midnight to see the ball drop -- but not surprisingly, when we actually got them up at midnight, they just wanted to go back to sleep.  :)