Sandbox play in December

Back this last week, Nate got to play outside in his sandbox. Who would think you could do that in December?



Looks like I will get to go back to work on Friday, if the babies don't decide to come.

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Christmas Update

Well, it is raining cats and dogs outside. It's just crazy. Got some pics from Christmas that would like to share:

I picked up a bone at Walgreens for Jackson and he was really excited about going outside with it to chew it up, but we aren't letting him go since it is raining...


Vesta gave Nate some Play Clay:


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It's so big!

I watched an episode of Sid the Science Kid with Nate yesterday and it was about looking at things with Magnifying glasses. I decided to get out my grandfather's magnifying glass and let Nate use it a little. He kept going around saying "Wow! It's so big!". He was just in such awe. It was amazing...

Here's some pics of him examining his gingerbread house.





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Waiting for Santa

Nate and I stayed home today. they talked freezing rain all day but nothing really panned out that much. It's rained, but I guess If I was out in it, I might say differently.

Nate has really wanted to open his gifts. I've drawn him a picture of a present and we've been crossing off nights so that Nate knows when he can open his presents. We'll see.

I changed my theme to my blog once again. Don't know why I like the sad fish...

I made pizza tonight using the recipe from here for the dough. Guy claims to have the world's best pizza dought and it wasn't half bad. I was able to roll it out without using any flour. That may have been because I let it sit out to rise for an hour or so. Enjoyed punching down the dough also. May need to show Nate how to do that also.

Well, I gotta go.

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Gingerbread House

On Saturday we had Christmas with Lynn's Family. It was fun. Nate got a RC car that he's loving to play with. AT the end of the day, I brought up a ready made Gingerbread house kit that we bought on clearance last year. Since he saw it, Nate has wanted to build it, so we got to working on it Sunday morning. I assembled most of the structure and "poured" the icing for him, and let him stick the candies on. He didn't bother to eat any of the candies, which is fine, cause the whole mess is like expired (won't be eating it...).

Decorating a gingerbread tree:


Completed product:



Looking through the front window:


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