Updates and SNOW!

Happy December to everyone! I thought I'd post an update to what the boys have been up to, since it's been a week or two since I last posted. You know the drill, it's the end of the semester for me which means papers and finals and lots of work!

Caleb has been having loads of fun in kindermusik. He has a fairly large class for his age, the largest he's been in as a preschooler, and I think he really likes not being the only boy in class anymore. This past week they had to make some sort of bird costume, and here is what we came up with:

Noah has been into EVERYTHING lately--he climbs onto chairs and stools and just generally wants to be doing whatever the rest of us are doing. I know, this is not surprising. So the other day when I was working on the computer with my headphones on, Noah desperately wanted to wear them. See?:

And today marks our first snow day of the year...it started snowing yesterday or the day before, and yesterday the university decided to close down at noon. So I picked up the kids and Mark a bit early and we had a relaxing afternoon together yesterday. The kids wanted to go play in the snow, of course. We let them even though I think it was a bit too cold with the windchill.

Today Mark had to go to work, but the boys and I are at home. Caleb declared it a pajama snow day, so we are all staying in our PJs. We have grand plans to do laundry, bake some cookies, and maybe get some ornaments on the tree. Hope you and yours are staying warm and safe! See you next week.

Happy March everyone! The good news here in Nebraska is that it has felt like Spring the past few days (I think the high yesterday was in the 70s!!!). However, it was snowy before that, as you can see here:

Yep, Mark had to get out the snowblower last weekend, and despite it being bitterly cold that morning, Caleb wanted to go outside too. As you can see, Caleb improvised a snowblower of his own (it's his toy lawnmower)! If only the toy lawnmower really moved snow!

I finally caught Noah's goofy face on camera--he tends to grab his top lip with his two bottom teeth. Here is the evidence:

We don't know exactly why he is doing this--but it sure makes one heck of a funny look! He's got his own version of monster face!

In other news, Noah is now fully pulling up onto his feet. This has made for a few falls; luckily none of them have been painful for Noah yet. Every morning I go into his room after my shower, and this is what I see:

Noah is now always standing in his crib in the morning, waiting for me to get him. Usually he's babbling some combination of "ga," "ra," and "vra"...I'm just glad he's patiently orating to the room, instead of screaming and crying for me!

I've also gotten some cute recent pictures of the boys together. Here they are:

I thought this one above was just cute, even though Caleb isn't looking at the camera. What you don't know is Caleb is physically holding Noah there--as Noah wanted to zombie crawl over to me to grab the camera!

And here is another cute shot--again Caleb is holding Noah's feet, so he can't crawl too close to me. I tell you, when kids get mobile it gets really hard to get nice pictures of them up close!

Last but not least, I thought it'd be nice to compare Caleb's singing skills now to his singing skills about a year ago. I think I had a video of him on here, singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" last year--well, he's much improved. I like to think it's not only his development but his Kindermusik classes; he really enjoys Kindermusik and I've noticed he now has good rhythm (for a 3.5 year old) and follows the general ups and downs of a song--even if he cannot quite stay in tune. Here's the direct comparison (whatever the reason for his improvement).

The old video, of Caleb last year in April:

The new video, of Caleb this month:

Not only is Caleb's singing improved, but my videography is better too! I know now not to take videos of the kids in the basement--it's too dark, even with the lights on!