Stuff

Im trying to get better about blogging more regularly so here are a few random pictures from January.

Jake and Myles posing for me to figure out my new camera one night...

Abbie too. 

Myles playing in the curtains in the girls room while they were cleaning it.

Abbie loves to get her picture taken.

One day the kids were playing a game they had made up that reminded me of twister so we decided to get it.  The game has come in handy with all of our no school days lately due to cold weather.  

They have spent hours playing this silly game.  I love this picture because Myles was trying to figure out how to play too.  And the kids just let him be involved, no trying to get him to leave them alone, they just let him play right along with them.  

Mommy's Little Helper

Myles loves to be mine (or anybody's) little helper.  Here he is sweeping the floor after it had just been swept into a pile..... good thing he is so cute.  

In the Oven

One of Myles' favorite foods is bread.  In fact, one of his first words was bread.  He loves my homemade wheat bread and since most commercial breads have milk in them, that is a good thing.  (Actually all my kids love my bread so that is a good thing and it makes me want to keep making it for them.) Well Myles knows when I am making bread and he loves to watch the mixed mix up the dough.  But, his favorite part of making bread is watching it in the oven.  The recipe I use calls for the bread to rise in the oven and then you turn the oven on and bake it without taking the bread out.  Myles watches the bread while it is rising and baking in the oven and when the timer goes off he always goes running for the oven.

It takes all of his patience to wait for the baked bread to cool enough for me to slice it for him.  This boy loves his bread.

Frozen Bubbles

There have been a few Facebook posts lately about frozen bubbles and how cool they are.  Well we decided to take advantage of the super freezing temperatures to see if we could actually make frozen bubbles ourselves.  

WE DID!!

We did it on one of the super cold days that we had recently.  Monday when the kids were home from school because of the cold. (The high temp for the day way -15 with a windchill of -35) Jake was the only one brave enough to actually go outside the rest of us watched from the doorway.  And he could only stay out for a few minutes before he was too cold.  It was hard to get pictures of them too because of how fast they popped or blew away in the wind.  (that didn't help the cold department either)  

But it was cool to know that if it is cold enough you can blow bubbles and they freeze almost instantly.