snow fun

it's a balmy 29 degrees out today... wahoo!! we spent some time outside in the snow -- were going to build A snowman, but then ended up building three. here are our finished products...

snowman #1 (built by roman and colette)

snowman #2 (built by roman, colette and jake)

**OUR FAVORITE!** snowman #3 (built by jake)

winter wonderland

hooray for snow! roman and i attempted to build a snowman this morning - no luck, snow was too powdery. was really pretty to look at, though!

funny roman story: just after lunch, roman was playing in the front room while i was cleaning up dishes. i heard him yell "mama, i'm stuck! help me!" it sounded muffled, so i was sure he was in the coat closet, where he sometimes hides. nope. not in the closet. i heard him say "help!" again, this time a little more stressed... and i turned around to see him lying on the floor with his entire upper body in his little red barn (built by uncle trav!) the roof hatch was open, and his body was hanging out the (smaller) end door. he could clearly see me through the roof hatch, he just couldn't get out. so first, i asked him what he was doing and he said he found a ladybug. (i looked later and couldn't find the ladybug.) i started to pull his body backwards out of the barn, but that didn't work - his shoulders were getting stuck. so i convinced him to stick his arms out like superman (flying position) and i twisted his body up onto his side and flopped/wiggled him out backwards. whew. made me tense up just looking at him squished in there like that... so thankful for the roof hatch so he could at least breathe. :) (here's a pic of roman by the barn door that he somehow managed to squeeze through!!?!?)














...a quick hello from josiah, too! :)

little man growing!

josiah is pluggin' right along... yesterday, we discovered a tooth starting to poke through, and today he rolled over to his tummy! he's been trying the tummy trick for awhile now -- but this morning, roman and i were making breakfast in the kitchen and josiah was on a blanket in the front room. when i went in to get him, he was on his tummy! guess we've been watching him too closely/cheering for him too much that he just needed some space/alone time! :)













on another note, yesterday was day 3 of some sort of cooking baking - roman has become quite the helper. he was in charge of sprinkles yesterday. (he had two helpers -- his dinosaurs. yesterday, their names were "daddy" and "miya".)

the wailing chef

roman seems to have a love for baking, which is fun for me (most of the time!) i'm finding recipes that can have two things going on at once --- i can be dumping/mixing into the big mixer and he can be unwrapping a candy or something next to me.

today, roman wanted to hold the egg until i needed it. i could see him inspecting it very closely but being very careful with it. his nose was almost touching the egg and he started yelling "a crack! a crack!" i checked it out - no crack that i could see. so i went back to mixing... and then i heard wailing and saw huge alligator tears... he must have squeezed the egg too tight that it did crack and was all over the counter, his hands, everywhere. (no worries - we had another egg in the fridge!) so we cleaned that mess up and i threw the cracked shell into the sink. when it came time to add the egg into the mix, we put the good egg in and threw the shell into the sink. i went back to mixing and turned around to hear more wailing and see more alligator tears... roman was standing by the sink, pointing at the cracked shells, saying "chickens in there! chickens in there!"

so apparently this baking day has been a bit traumatic but i think we've worked through it! he definitely likes the *sampling* that gets to happen once the treats are baked! :)

sledding adventure

we just had our first sledding adventure with roman. because we didn't actually get outside until late afternoon (almost 5:00), our time out wasn't terribly long... but it was fun! roman has been playing with his sled in the house over the past few days, so it was a fun change to have it out in the snow! this park/hill is close to our house -- it's typically overloaded with people during the day, but there was only one other family there with us, so we pretty much had the place to ourselves! here are some pics/vids ... enjoy!!

all bundled up, ready to head out!


























roman in his cush ride on the way to the hill...


at the top of the hill, ready for the first trip down... and go!














...down the hill he goes!


...and ready to go again!














...and we can't leave the hill without letting grandma give it a try!

brothers

ok, so i didn't really want to play the game of comparing the boys, but it's so hard not to, especially since they were born around the same time of year and josiah is wearing clothes that roman wore around the same time of growth...

so is it me or can you tell that they're related?

hard at work...

just moved the pics from our camera to the computer -- feel like we have a common theme: the boys appear to be working hard in (most of) these pictures!

...seriously, how do you tie these things?
hope the animals like the taste of this hay (aka wood block).
i'm soooo excited that i don't have to rake and i just get to play!!!!

they keep telling me to stick my legs out like an airplane... but i'm not gonna do it!

i'm trying to listen to aunt brittany read, but there's a boy crawling on my back!

they have no idea how hard it is for me to sit up like this. i really could topple over at any moment.

rice cereal. blech.

lay here at be cute/funny. done.