Little King Tut

We just arrived back from a short trip to New Hampshire after our first east coast Christmas as a little family. We were all spoiled rotten for Christmas with too many presents to count and a very very happy little boy. We headed up to the Inn at Crotched Mountain in New Hampshire for a little rest and relaxation. Here are a few pictures of our adventures. Topher and Bex on an early morning walk, our little king tut eating in his royal chair at the Inn (note the terrible wall paper and awesome hand-me-down PJs), baby Picasso has really taken to drawing at restaurants, and lastly we arrived home to New Hay Hay just before a big winter storm came in (picture taken through our window looking down at my sad covered up car). We missed everyone over the holidays... and continue to.

TIMBER...

On Sunday we went out and got a Christmas tree. It was very cold so we all bundled up and then went to cut down our tree. It was not at all like Alaska tree-cutting but we had a great time anyway. I think that the series of events were captured pretty well in the pictures....

Rebels

This is a movie of Bex and Clare trying to ditch Toddler Tunes and leave via the magic button in the back of the room. Alas, the door did not open so they went back to dance it off.

Box, Bex, Blocks

Bex has learned to say his name!! This weekend he was SO proud of himself and he just kept saying Bex and pointing to himself. The kicker is that his two most favorite things in life sound exactly the same. Turns out that Bex sounds a lot like box and blocks (something that we had not considered when naming him.) He is newly obsessed with blocks and wants to build and destroy all the time. He has laser-like focus like his dad and can sit for quite awhile and build. Here are a few pics of his latest block/box/bex session. His shirt is compliments of his cousin Duke.

DJ Bexy Bex

Bex finally decided to rock out with his hat that was a gift from our friends Kim and Bill from SF. He is so hipster and he doesn't even know it. He would be off the charts if he was in his skinny jeans. Here are a few pics... as you can see it unfortunately doesn't fit adults.

Festivus for the rest of us

The end of the semester is crazy for teachers. I remember it was hell when I was a student but I hadn't appreciated that it is just the same for the faculty. So much grading!! The good news is that my last week is next week and they are giving presentations so there will be no prep time for me. We hit up KidCity again- because it is so freakin' awesome. Below is a picture of Bex on Route 66 and then doing his favorite activity there- which is painting the wall. Also I am including the only Christmas decoration that we have up. I made Bex a felt tree with ornaments, presents, and a star! Not sure when we will get our real tree up.

Better late than Gobble

Here are the pics from Thanksgiving that our friends just gave us. My favorite one is of Topher and Jeff looking at the Turkey...