Michael needs . . .

. . . a haircut . . .

and some chapstick.

Dragon Tank

It was cold and 2 out of 3 kids were sick this past weekend, so we stayed inside. There was a lot of video game playing, but there was also some lego and trio building action. Luke wanted a picture taken of his Trio Dragon Cannon Battle Tank.

Sack of Baby

Here are a couple of pictures of Justin, up way too late, hanging out in his sleep sack.

Boys at 9 months

Fussy, challenging, troublemaking balls of cuteness they were and are!

Student of the Month

Since this is the closest thing I have to a scrapbook, I wanted to post this image. Master Circle just emailed me this to use as an invitation for Luke's Student of the Month pizza party. Isn't it cute? By the way, if you're reading this, consider your kid(s) invited. It's an hour of pizza and martial arts games (Sat. Feb. 5th @ 2:30). Just let me know if you're interested. That is, of course, if your kid doesn't happen to be celebrating his third birthday on the same day!

Christmas the Second

I'm a little late in posting, but when we got back from Toronto, my laptop died. Luckily, we got the photos and files transferred to Matt's computer just in time, but I was without a computer for a few days. I got a netbook yesterday and I finally got the Toronto pictures uploaded.
We visited Matt's Dad at his office downtown. He works on the 30th floor. The boys could have stared out the window forever.

Honestly, I dressed the boys in nice sweaters for the big family party , but it was very late and very hot by the time we got to opening presents and the boys looked like a couple of hoodlums as they played with their new RC cars.

Our nieces Jacinta and Maeve get double presents since they have birthdays around the holidays. We gave Jacinta this sparkly purple dress for her birthday and she stripped right down to put it on. Maeve was fast asleep by gift time, but I got this picture of her earlier. She just turned a year old and used to be so chubby, but she's really thinned out. Justin is about the same size that she is now.

Speaking of Justin, he is now bigger than both of the twins who are a month older. Kayla has always been petite, but Kyan was really fat. Not so much now. I could not get a picture with all of them facing the camera.

Lots of presents, lots of eating, lots of drinking (for the adults, that is) and very little sleep for anyone made for an exhausting visit. We had fun, but everyone agreed that it's more fun in the summer at Uncle Greg's when we can all hang out by the pool.

Happy 2011!

We'll make the first post of 2011 a dance party. This is from our trip to Toronto. Michael and Claire are playing a dancing video game. Claire is almost 7 and is a very good dancer. Michael not so much. Check out all of the cousins, aunts and uncles in the background.