A Post for January

How about I list some things I've liked about this monster of a month, the first month of the rest of my life...

• We have finally gotten well again (contagious sick people will be shot on sight so stay away!)
• Our neighborhood in the evening looks like Whoville: colored by winter sunsets and muffled in beautiful snow.
• The baby weight and mission weight are gone, may they rest in peace.
• We hosted a curry night with some mission buds (recipes: chicken tikka and korma)

 

• Played in the snow with Riley.
• Navigated peanut butter-thick fog to get my hair chopped super short. I was feeling brave.
• Our drafty house makes our babies even more snuggly. (Heaven is a baby dog-pile.)
• The ambiance of our fire place.
• Dave's beard (which he recently shaved but I have faith it will be back before winter's end) 
• Aaaand....that it is almost over! February might get its own party, just for arriving!

 Babies growing up: Joe sits on his own now, and Riley is a big girl and soo over baby utensils. We give her a jar at dinner and she swigs from it with gusto and looks at us as if to say, "Nothing like drinking from a big peoples cup, am I right!" She also blesses our food intermittently throughout dinner. Probably in hopes that it will turn into pizza and coke, her preferred food groups.

 Joe has found a way he likes a pacifier, when Riley forces one on him. 

I love this picture: Riley is "praying" and Joe is proud.

Our indoor games have had to get a little creative/desperate. We stick buttons into milk jugs, do workout videos, play the parachute game with blankets, paint the table with yogurt, unfold/refold towels, blah blah blah. 

And what baby doesn't enjoy taking dives on the couch?

And THAT, clearly is all I have to say about January. I do NOT take my leave of you, I send no compliments to your mother, you deserve no such attention. If you don't know the movie I just quoted then I sound like a real weirdo. Nevermind, I kind of am.