When we DO get out of the house...

...we tend to get a little goofy.

Happy Belated Birthday, Chris!  We obviously had a great time at your party!

What do you do when you're stuck inside??

It's been snowy.  Very, very snowy.  So we've been spending a lot of time inside.  A LOT of time inside.  It's driving us all a little mad.  But we've been trying to keep busy regardless.  What all have we been doing?  Well, let's see...we've been reading:

Building caves:

Busting out of caves:

Playing in our new pirate ship (and saying "arr, matey!" repeatedly):

Pretending to be one of the Beastie Boys:

And playing "beautiful butterfly" (ala "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" - note the "cocoon" off to the right on the couch):

Just how much snow have we actually had?

Yeah, that was 3 snow storms ago.  Sigh.  I am so done with winter...

Happy Birthday Neena!

Neena (Dashiell's great-grandma) celebrates her birthday every year on New Year's day, which of course means CAKE!  Dashiell loves cake almost as much as he loves Neena! ;)  And the Happy Birthday song?  He was asking to sing it all day in anticipation of the celebration, and kept telling me how much he liked that song.  What's not to like?  You sing the song, then you get to eat cake.  Very Pavlovian.

Dashiell was happy to do his part to help Neena blow out her candles:

Neena looks great in this picture, and behind her hands you can see that Dash is more than happy to be part of her big celebration!

I know I mentioned how much we appreciate the fact that Dashiell has great-grandparents who are so wonderful and loving in my post about Papa Jack's birthday, and of course it still holds true.  We are blessed to have them in our lives, and have felt that more than ever over the past holiday season. We love you, Neena and Papa Jack!

Squeeze box

We gave Dashiell an accordion for Christmas this year, and since Grandpa Weber plays the accordion, Dashiell was only too eager to accompany him in a little ditty:

Grandpa's accordion playing is a little rusty, so Dash thought it might work better if he helped out: