Chilly weekend triplets

 

Introducing the boy to a childhood favorite of mine: hot chocolate and buttered toast.  He hasn't quite mastered the technique.  He kept dunking the whole piece then shoved the whole thing in his mouth.

One of my sisters told a funny story about dressing one of her children, then realizing she'd dressed to match.  So she changed her shirt, then realized she'd dressed to match the other child.  I realized I had done the same thing, so coerced husband to dress to match us.

silly boy decided to take off his jacket the 'easy way'.

Playing around

We were playin some sort of make believe game, but I don't remember what, exactly.  The scrapper had some intrinsic value to the game.

 

Bluff Lake

We went on to a nature reserve just north of our house and had some fun in the outdoors.

Cracking ice

Sunny but cold days in January means lots of ice in the gutters to crack underfoot.

 

Remote learning, part 2

 

Gym class, remote learning style.

Lego genius

 The boy, holding aloft his latest creation in legos: it's a heart!  A lot of blocks, here and here and here and here

Me: Oh!  that's amazing.  What made you think to build a heart?

The boy: I'm a genius.  In my head.

Merry Christmas 2020

It snowed in October, so we took advantage of the weather to take a picture.  Notice the Christmas tree?  And the feet?  I thought I could edit it out, so I didn't bother covering them up.  Oh, well.

Then we couldn't resist getting a picture of the boy as an old gristled back woodsman with his rocking chair on the porch.  Cute, huh?