January Diversions

Oh January... you always save something special for me to start off the new year.  This time, the kids had colds (Owen's may have been a minor flu? based on his fever, but it passed rather quickly) with lingering coughs, and I got strep throat!  You are too kind. Really.  Stop.

Anyway, Owen started back at ice skating lessons.  I was really surprised that he seemed to retain a lot of what he learned last winter.  In fact, he tried to tell me that he would just go skate (by himself) without a formal lesson.  Glad he's confident, but there's oh, so much more to learn.

We are also spending our non-hacking winter days bowling,

 reading at the library and at home (sometimes Owen even reads to Hadley!),

and having tea parties with the natives.

And today was a big transition for Hadley: she got a big girl bed!  We've known it was coming for a while, since I caught her straddling her crib rail a few times.  I was hoping she'd chicken out and we could keep her confined a bit longer, but no, this morning I was greeted by two children in the living room. :)  She seems excited about it; fingers crossed that she really will stay in her room until "it's green, mom!" (Her alarm clock lights up green when she's allowed to get up.  It's worked well for the crib.)  Here goes...