Sigh

I've felt very uninspired to blog lately. I haven't had time or motivation to take many pictures and days fly by before I even realize that my last post was forever ago. Between the boys, the house, work and school there hasn't been time for much else. I've also been fighting overwhelming fatigue many days and end up going to bed early most nights. Everything is fine and most days are great, but I often fall into bed and into a deep sleep quickly.

We went up north for a visit this weekend and had fun seeing Auntie Kimmy and grandmas and grandpas. It's frustrating for me when we do go up north because Max never sleeps well. He always wakes up in the night and refuses to go back to sleep. I usually end up bringing him into bed with me and then he won't go to sleep and keeps us both up. I wish he'd figure out the whole sleep thing. He sleeps better at home, but still has nights when he's up and has trouble falling back to sleep. We had a fun time though, roasting hot dogs over a fire on the sled hill and sledding with Liam! Max lasted quite awhile digging in the snow before having a breakdown over not being able to walk well through the drifts. It was a good visit.

And today I am off to have a root canal.
Relaxing.
Cheap.
These are words that do not apply to the root canal experience...

Dreaming of Summer

On this freezing, below zero day...we're wishing for summer. And Uncle Dave's camp! We'll head up north for some fun in the snow today, but we can't wait for warm weather again!

Photoshoot

Between trips to the darkened bathroom to "fight General Grievous", Max and Liam posed for a few photos...

They are currently wrestling and screaming on the living room floor...

But they look so quiet and well-behaved here!

Appearances can be deceiving...

All Liam

This is Liam's Lego Brachiosaurus! He even took the picture himself!

Knock, Knock...

Who's there?

Max has been immitating Liam and his love for knock-knock jokes lately, but the only one he can do is the "orange you glad I didn't say banana" one. We tried to get his rendition on film, but this is all we managed...

Hide and Seek

The boys love playing hide and seek, and I encourage the game because (*parents, take note!) I can get a lot of cleaning up done while I count and then take an extra long time looking for them! Yesterday I discovered them hiding quite stealthily:

Pay no attention to that crap under my bed...

Crazy kids! They're so much fun.

Nerds

Aaron and I are such nerds. We like to reminisce about our love of book fairs, book order and the RIF program quite often now that Liam is in school. We order him books from book order more for our own enjoyment than his! Anyway, Liam's school is hosting a book fair this week and his class visited said fair on Tuesday. I found a list of books in his backpack that he'd like to "add to his home library" but that we are "under no obligation to buy." His list had three items:

1. True or False Plants
2. Snake-a-phobia
3. Ick Story

Can I buy him all three just for being so darn cute?!