My First Post of Twenty-Ten

Except I don't say "twenty ten". Sure I said "nineteen ___" but I've been saying "two thousand ___" for 10 years now and I'm not about to switch it up for anything other than a silly blog title for today. :)

So really, it's my first post of two thousand ten. That's how Easton says it too. At school. He's been very excited for it to become 2010.

We've had a great year so far. We kicked off things with our baby girl growing up even more and she's learning how to sit independently. When I took those "fun with the equinox" broom pictures, I also got Autumn to sit for a few but she'd only last long enough to take the picture. Now she sits long enough to take lots of pictures in a row and even movies. She's doing great!




See that cute little ruffle butt? :)


Anyway, New Years Day we had some friends over for dinner. They're our small group leaders too...the same friend that came to my rescue so I could go to Easton's Christmas party. We were long over due to have them over...we've been to their house countless times for group, plus dinners, plus they brought us a meal after Autumn arrived. We're just really bad at hosting. I never know what to make. We don't even have enough chairs! But we made it work and it was a fun evening and we'd like to do it again! We brought the kids little picnic table in from outside and their kids and our kids sat there in "Easton's living room".

The kids were really late getting to bed but handled it okay the next day. At least I think they did...Jason let me sleep in a bit! Yay!

But later, Easton and Daddy had big one-on-one plans to head to the Museum of Nature and Science to see the space exhibit and to visit the plantarium as well. I took pictures of them before they left....first they were unsure what pose the other was going for:


Then they went with their serious faces:


And Easton's freaky forced smile:


The rest of us here at home all took naps. Yay! And Jason and Easton had good spacey fun:












And fun with the infrared, heat sensing camera:


The museum also has dinosaurs and such but Easton was apparently having none of it. Too scary, I guess. He's been very sensitive to such things lately.

Here's the kids that night laying on each other's tummies like they saw in the New Year's Max & Ruby (with the cookies):


We put them all to bed...but apparently Autumn thought she was just having a nap and she was wide awake awhile later just talking to herself and such. Jason felt bad and went to get her up for a bit:

(Notice the 10:05 on the clock?)

And Blitz having a nap in her bouncy seat:


Church was Sunday. That went okay too. Afterwards, Dalton and I got ready for some one-on-one time ourselves and headed to see The Princess and the Frog.

I really liked the movie, just not for my kids at these ages. I was glad Easton stayed home because it wouldn't have gone over his head like much of the "darkness" did for Dalton. Plus Dalton was a little sleepy and wasn't even looking at the screen the entire time. But it's set in Louisiana so that part was kinda fun. It was cute. I love Disney movies, but still...it was dark. Not just "bad guys" but it's voodoo.

We went to Walmart just the two of us afterwards. It was a quick trip for some dinner fixin's. He fell asleep on the way home and stayed asleep on the couch till Jason accidentally tripped over the Bat Cave laying on the floor and woke him. D was not a happy camper for awhile after that. Aye yi yi!

But later he and Easton actually played in the basement together for awhile.

We have this whole finished basement with a "playroom" that just doesn't get used a ton yet. We haven't taken the time and energy to really make it nice and inviting. And that train table takes up a lot of room and they don't even play with it. Anyone wanna buy a train table?

Anyway...

Silly boys at dinner that night:




And Daddy and his girl:


Today it was back to the routines of Easton being in school and such. Autumn woke to nurse at a funky time in the early morning then wasn't hungry when she was done sleeping this morning. So she took a short nap on the couch in between getting hungry again:


And I took a picture of myself in my scarf. When I wore it the first time, Dalton told me "I like your winter" hee hee!


Now we're expecting Lauren at any minute so I should go. Toodles!