Baby it's cold inside

Last night's low was in the 20's. Man that's cold. Our playroom tends to lend itself to extreme temperature fluctuations. In the summer we have to use multiple fans just to make it tolerable due to the sun exposure. It will warm up today (thanks to the same sun exposure) but it sure can be cool on winter mornings. After both boys telling me it was cold this morning I decided to put their hoodies on them. Now Charlie keeps insisting that we go outside, since it's still just 22 we'll be staying in.

Trick or Treat

Well, they really only went to one house but they did try to say Trick or Treat. It was almost a battle trying to get Jack's costume on (I may go into designing children's Halloween costumes after that). They both hated their "hats" so we were completely unable to get a picture of them together in complete costume but here are a few pics.

Halloween Cookies

The boys did a little cookie decorating recently with Meredith. Charlie spent most of his time smearing icing on his face while Jack methodically picked the sprinkles off one at a time and ate them.

Santa Claus is coming to town

Back by popular demand (seriously - lots of folks have asked for it) is the boys' blog Christmas list. Each item is linked to a picture/description of it on the Internet. Most of things are also available in local stores I just wanted you to be able to see them easily. I'm starting my shopping this week so I thought it was time to post this too. I'll try to add to it as I think of things and if you email me I'll take things off as well.

Pictures from the boys' birthday party

Here are some pictures from the boys' second birthday party. They got a huge new swing set from us and some of the grandparents. Chip put it together almost entirely by himself. The idea was to play outside all afternoon but it rained. Oh well. The Elmo balloon didn't hold up too well in the rain but the cake Aunt Phyllis made was great.

Check-up

We went for the two-year check-up yesterday. The computers were down so they couldn't give me any percentages but here are the raw numbers:

Jack weighs 32 lbs 10 oz and is 35.75 inches
Charlie weighs 29 lbs 13.5 oz and is 37.125 inches

They had to get two shots. One was a flu shot but we are now done with vaccines until Kindergarten. Overall they were real troopers and looked great all around.

2-years-old!

Wow! I can't believe it. The boys are already enjoying their big day. I sang to them first thing and Jack has been singing "Happy Birthday" to himself ever since. Here is a recent picture of them in their new Superman swimsuits. They just finished their second set of swim lessons and they are becoming real swimmers.

Charlie is very into blocks and will really amaze you with his towers. He also loves coloring and finger painting. We are going through a second crayon-eating phase though.

Jack is really into playing with cars and singing anything. He likes to color but wasn't too keen on the finger paints. He takes a good picture though as he has learned to say "1-2-3 cheese" and smile. Both have pretty much mastered ABC and 1 to 10 we are now very into colors and shapes. Blue seems to be their favorite color and they really like octagons.