Although I love summer days, I also love the winter days. I hate driving in the snow and I hate the bitter cold. But, I love the sight of the snow, getting bundled up, staying in to play, hot chocolate, and I love how imagination grows when you are forced to stay in doors.
Alex has become quite a young boy. He has such a creative imagination and outgoing personality. He rarely has a "down" minute and I love how he tries to make the best out of every situation.
My little walking man. He is a little over 11 months and walking on everything. He will take five or fewer steps and then sit down and crawl. He isn't too interested in all that walking has to offer yet. Crawling will still allow him to keep up with his brother.
Alex found one of my old Girl Scout books and decided he would like to color it. He is all hands on.
We have some toys upstairs and lots downstairs. I try to switch them out every couple of months so the boys don't get bored with them. Somehow, we always end up with more and more toys upstairs. Clutter. Someday I will miss it.
I think one of the best things we did was finish the garage. It is now heated and adds a whole ton of space onto our house. Aiden loves to go in his walker around the garage and Alex gets to ride his bikes, tractor and play chalk. It provides another way to get some energy out during the day.
One of the things I love to do one the weekends is give the boys a morning bath. They sit and play in there until their fingers get wrinkly. They have such a good time unless there is a Code Brown. But, we haven't had one of those in a very long time, thank goodness. Alex loves getting a matching mohawk with Aiden.
We bake. These are the cake pops we made for Alex's birthday. Alex loves to help me in the kitchen and get "jobs". Aiden "helps" also. He provides the music by playing with the measuring cups and spoons.
My Mater.
Although we haven't had a lot of it yet this year, we love playing in the snow. This provides a whole different type of imagination.
Alex's porcupine snowman.
What else do boys enjoy but racing cars? Sound effects and all.
Some of Aiden's new Christmas toys.
We made that shaker at ECFE. One of Aiden's favorite toys.
One of Alex's Christmas gifts. He got a Dora that you put the beads on and then iron it together. We still haven't finished it yet, as it does take some time and patience. Alex wants to make it into a Dora magnet.
I feel so lucky to have a boy that loves to do crafts. I saw a similar project like this on Pinterest and thought Alex would love it. We are tried it out and I think Alex did an excellent job.
Of course we have to eat some marshmallows while we make a project. Alex would go back to doing the project and leave his pile of marshmallows. Aiden would scoot his little fingers over to steal some marshmallows. When Alex discovered what Aiden was doing, he just laughed. I am in love with them and their relationship together.
One of the most annoying hand-me-downs Alex has gotten from Uncle Nate. It's a singing Dean Martin. He isn't a quiet singer. Alex loves to play with him and pretend he is his baby. He rocks him to sleep quite often.
One of the things Alex could do all day and night are puzzles. He loves puzzles. He is getting very good at them. He can do up to 40 piece puzzles now, by himself. He is a puzzle machine.
This year, Alex got a lot of new games for Christmas. He loves to play games with anyone he can and tries to play at least one every night. He is such a sweet heart. Someone wins, someone takes second, someone takes third. No one ever "loses" with Alex.
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