Whole Lotta Nothin'

We had a laid back weekend after our last few busy ones. Daddy brewed two batches of beer, and mommy got started on a knitting project for her cousin's new baby. Other than that, a whole lot of nothing got done. Yesterday, Christopher requested a firehouse for his big fire truck. It took about all the blocks we had, but we did it! He wanted his picture taken with it - he's turned into such a cheeser. He's always asking me to take his picture and put it on the internet. I think I should be a little worried.

Patrick was far more interested in watching fire trucks on DVD and eating crackers. Imagine that!

Rockin' Out

We haven't done much in the last few days, but I did get some video of Christopher doing his latest new thing, singing "Life is a Highway" at the top of his lungs while driving Mack around, just like in Cars. Yeah, it's pretty funny. You'll want to make sure the volume isn't turned up too high on the computer, though...

A Great Weekend

This past weekend we went on our trip to Zoo Lights at the Phoenix Zoo. It was a blast! The boys had a great time visiting Grandma and Papa's Christmas train (and Grandma and Papa), the zoo, spending time with Uncle Mark, and making a trip to Ikea!!!!

Christopher spent most of the visit like this!

They had a good thing going. Got to see all the lights without walking!

Grandma made pancakes Saturday morning!

Checking out man stuff with Uncle Mark

Then Uncle Mark let me check out his ride

There was a handsome boy in there!
We found a fun spot in the sea of Ikea furniture!

Daddy looked confused - needed some help putting the chairs together.
We did it!

Lunchtime Theatre

So yesterday Christopher was begging to watch "Hero of the Rails", the epic work of cinematography featuring Thomas the Tank Engine and friends. The boys had been really good during our whole drop-off-the-Christmas-tree odyssey in which we saw every road under construction in all of Tucson, so I told C he could watch it before nap. I turned it on, unloaded the groceries, and made lunch. The result: lunch and a movie.

They did polish off a whole can of Cars chicken noodle soup, crackers, and a bunch of grapes, so I guess we should veg and eat more often!

Yes, We're Still Alive

So, it's been nearly two months since I updated. Bad Kathryn. In that time we packed the house, moved 5 minutes up the road, unpacked the house (mostly), had Thanksgiving, visitors from the far East, Christmas, New Year's, etc. OK, enough excuses!


My New Year's resolution (or one of them) is to blog twice weekly. You can all giggle and talk amongst yourselves as to whether it will take one or two weeks for me to fall off the wagon.

For now, here are a few pictures of Christmas vacation in the Schneider house. Daddy has been off work since December 24th, so we've been having a grand time!

Investigating the Sit'nSpin that Santa brought

Checking out my new workbench

Playing with Murdoch and my new train table

Having the first of many "big races" for Lightning, Chick, and the King

Oh yeah, there were wrapped presents too!

Mommy made us wear silly outfits...again.

Modeling new robes from Aunt Jenny

Having our first movie day - watched "A Bug's Life"

Enjoying some of Baby Jesus' leftover birthday cake

General Silliness

Here are a few pictures from the last week or so. Nothing exciting, but I thought they were cute!

Christopher is having a really important conversation with Grammy.

Christopher discovered his Thomas coloring book again. Here he is coloring Henry, with the real Henry supervising, just to make sure he gets the colors right. I am not making this up; he was very meticulous.

Patrick, on the other hand, colored for about 2.3 minutes before starting to eat crayons. Here he is concentrating very hard, note the tongue. Probably trying to figure out what naughty things he can do with two plastic balls. There must be something...

Driving Daddy's car after he got back from work on Friday.

Enjoy!

Belated Halloween Pictures

Late as usual, but here are a few good pictures from Halloween.

Helping Daddy clean Patrick's pumpkin - fake shot - he didn't want to touch the gooey insides.

Christopher loved popping out the pieces of pumpkin after we cut them free.

Patrick was not interested in sitting still next to his pumpkin. Christopher was hamming it up, but had no pants on. Oops.

Astronaut Christopher and Robin Hood ready for trick-or-treating. Not sure why these pictures are so blurry.

And they're off to get loot!

Enjoying their goodies after they went the whole way around the block!

Enjoy!