February, so far

We've reached the "blah" part of the year. The fun holidays are over and it's always cold and snowy outside, so we're stuck inside all day. The boys have been sleeping in longer though, which has been nice.

Connor has learned how to push the kitchen chairs around and climb up on them to reach anything he wants, which has made my life 10 times more difficult. Even worse, is that when he combines a kitchen chair with a bar stool, it gives him two steps up and he can get on top of the counter and reach the things I moved out of his reach. 

I'm not sure how he climbed onto the bar stool in this situation. He has a small stool nearby, but not high enough to get his short body on the bar stool, and the closest kitchen chair is knocked over. Maybe he did some Jackie Chan maneuver and jumped off the kitchen chair as it was tipping over. 

Also I hope the messy, cluttered house in this picture makes you feel better about the cleanliness of your house. I did at least move the dirty diaper on the floor out of the shot before taking the picture. You're welcome.

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 We have managed to get out of the house a few times. We went ice skating at the local outdoor rink. We each wore about 4 layers of clothes and it was a warmer night (about 30 degree F) so we didn't freeze.

Dallin and Connor have never been ice skating before. They both did alright on the ice, as long as you were always holding their hands. Dallin managed to take a few steps on the ice by himself!

A friend from church was also there skating and gave Dallin some good skating tips.

Coonor was tired and ready for bed in this picture, but he did have fun getting out of the house for a bit.

They didn't have skates small enough for the boys, but they did have blades you could strap onto the shoes they were already wearing. You can see Dallin's in this picture. And these had 2 row of blades (instead of the normal one blade on a skate) giving the kids more stability on the ice. We thought they were awesome.

 The local Children's Science Museum in Lafayette had a free day to celebrate it's grand reopening. It's a very small facility but it's the best we have in town unless you want to drive to Indianapolis.

 And when your kids are young like ours, they are content to sit in one room and play with the little kids toys for hours anyway.

I showed Connor how to listen to the "ocean" in a seashell and he thought it was so cool!

He carried the shells around for a bit listening to them.

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This is what happens when Mckay is in charge of bathing Connor.

Connor walked around the house for a while with the towel around his waist. It was so cute.

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The back of our house looks out across a field to the road. The city bus Mckay takes to and from school drops him off on this road by our neighborhood. If I tell Dallin that his Dad will be home on the bus soon, he'll watch out the window for the bus. 

And when the bus stops and Mckay walks off, Dallin starts banging on the window very excitedly. Daddy coming home from work is the best part of the day.