Twenty-Five Months of Toddler Chandler

This little person does not have homework yet, but if her big sister sits at the table and works, Chandler will give it a try, too.

Twenty-Five Months Fun Facts:

• The Language: Reach, eat, wet and water (although she prefers to refer to water as "gu-ga.")
• The Hair: Better.  Sigh.

Sixty-Four Months of Preschooler Frances

Sixty-Four Months Fun Fact:

• School: Frances is assigned homework this year.  I have mixed feelings about it.  Occasionally, the task is something like, "Go outside with your family."  Okey-dokey.  Sometimes it's more like, "Trace the J's."  Boo-ring.  Most of the time it's somewhere in between.  It doesn't really matter to Frances, though.  She likes it all.  Thank goodness for Frances.  We'll save the homework battles for later.
• Dinner Battles:  Frances voluntarily ate soup!!  And a nice Curry-Chicken-Coconut Milk number at that.  Easy to make; easy to like.  Yay for Frances!

The Little Dears

School wasn't cancelled!  Yay!  After pick-up, I took the kids to the lovely Boston Nature Center.  I think I had fantasies of walking the trails, but the trails were snowed in, of course.  So instead, we sat inside the BNC's lovely classroom and had a snack.

See what a lovely mood Frances was in?

Then I took them home, tout de suite.  It's possible I tried to sell Frances to the gypsies.  No takers.

Hibernating...

...with a little light reading.

We got out of the house!

And then we had chocolate!

For our next trick...

 ...we'll sit on the counter and eat crackers.

Hopefully, it will take two or three hours.

Thank the Lord they're cute.  Probably the only thing that saved them that day.

Storm Number...?

We had yet another day of this stuff...

(if you look closely, you'll see a jeep that didn't move for a month)

...so the kids got really desperate and started playing with toys I like, like so: 

See the nice, quiet baby doll carriers?  Sure they're gender-prescriptive, but boy, oh, boy, I like 'em.

Why?  Because they don't require batteries, don't make noise, aren't made of plastic, don't hurt your feet when you step on them in the middle of the night, and are easy to store.  Do my kids like them?  Not enough to play with them regularly, but they were willing to try anything that day.

God bless the snow.