This year I decided to take off the last two weeks of the year, giving myself a long Christmas break. It was so nice to have so much time with Benji and Matthew, even if we didn't do anything super exciting but instead played games, baked cookies, and just hung out. Benji really got used to his "bonus Mommy days" too since he wasn't happy at all this morning about Mommy going back to work. He was excited about school, but he wanted Mommy to come with to school. And Mommy sure wasn't thrilled about going back to work, either.
So, let's take a look back at winter fun in our household.
Near Woodfield Mall there's a new "Legoland Discovery Center" that we tried out when my parents found some free admission coupons in the newspaper. Benji enjoyed himself, especially in the building area where he got to race Lego cars. I particularly liked the photos with the giant sculptures.
Oh no! Daddy's been eaten by a lion!
Although we're back to grass and bare pavement right now, we had quite a few snows back in December and Benji was very excited to go out and play in the snow. He also enjoyed kicking the snow.
The snow was so hard and ice coated that Benji didn't sink in at all when he tried to make snow angels.
For our gingerbread house, I decided it would be easiest and let Benji participate most by coating the roof with "gingerbread glue" and letting Benji create an artwork.
Surprisingly Benji didn't eat the candy until after he was done decorating.
He made a careful design on this side of the roof, includng "polka dots" and "eights" and gave me an adorable interview about his project.
We also went to Enchanted Castle with my parents and brother. Benji had a wild good time, including air hockey with Uncle Dave.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
