January 24th

January 23rd - Finger painting

January 15th - Proud Charlie

January 12th - Eating octopus

Jack, our super picky eater, went on a field trip to a local Chinese buffet for lunch because they are studying China at school. His teacher, Miss Ricki, convinced many of the kids to try "octopus", which was really calamari - squid. Jack was so proud to tell us that he ate octopus. I was so excited to add an item to the very short list of foods he eats. I tried to recreate the scene the very next weekend, but he wouldn't eat the squid when we went. Oh well.

January 4th - Our little gophers

January 3rd - The girl and her brothers

After another trip to the urgent care, Josie got some antibiotics and is on the mend.

January 1st - Grandma and the rascals

December 30th - My boys

December 29th

Grandma put Josie in this plastic bin with some toys while the rest of us ate dinner. You can see in some of the pictures how sick our little angel is. Poor baby. We went to urgent care on the 27th, but they didn't find anything. She seems to be getting worse now. :(

December 28th - Story time with the boys

December 28th - Jack's Experiment

Jack must have been missing his weekly science experiments from school. He put a bunch of snow in a bowl to watch its progress. The first set of pictures is from 12:28pm.

Now at 12:53pm there is still a lot of snow.

Now at 1:15pm it is almost all water, but there is still a bit of snow.

Now at 2:12pm all of the snow has melted into water - dirty water.

December 28th - Playing in the snow

It was high time we get these kids out in the snow. We never ended up having a good warm day with wet sticky snow so we could build a snowman, but the boys still had fun in the snow, shoveling, making snow angels, and throwing ice chunks at their favorite mom/aunt.

December 26th - Minnesota Christmas

We had our Texas Christmas early in anticipation of flying to Minnesota on Christmas Eve. Then when our flight was slipped until Christmas day, we decided to have our Minnesota Christmas celebration on the 26th. Crazy holidays this year.

The kids got these great gopher hats from Holly & Espen. Love them!

December 25th - Finally home in Minnesota

Espen was so cute with Josie - always trying to do something to make her laugh.

December 25th - Flying to Minnesota

After a disastrous time trying to fly out of Houston Hobby Airport on Christmas Eve, we made it out on Christmas Day. It was probably for the best, since the airports aren't quite so busy. We were able to have a free seat for Josie since the flights weren't full.

There were lots of funny faces on our flight.

Like father, like son...

Even Josie got in on the funny faces.