Random photo day!

My kids are pretty bored of tv.  I guess 9+ years of it will do that to you.  But it's okay, because now they can occupy themselves pretty well...even if occupying themselves often equals chasing and tormenting each other.  Can't have it all, right?

This morning I was fixing chili to put in the crock pot.  Lily was upstairs playing with her Playmobile, and the boys were in the toy room...Andrew reading and Michael playing Crazy 8's by himself.  Not a bad life we're living over here, I gotta say.

When they do watch tv, they can get in some crazy positions.  Here they are watching Phineas and Ferb one night...all piled up together like a little of puppies or something.  Crazy cute.

 Note zombified faces.  Classic tv watching zonk out.  Unless it is America's Funniest Home Videos...then they are swinging from the chandeliers trying to create their own home video winners.  -sigh-  I hate that show.

Sledding at Grandma and Grandpas!  When you run out of sleds, just grab a large piece of cardboard!

 Crafting with Aunt Sara.  She got Lily and Andrew modeling clay.  They are thrilled with it.  I am not so thrilled with the now permanent knick-knacky mishapen mutant animals that we now can keep forever.  yea.

 Sledding at Colin's house.  The hill was much further away and there was zero adult supervision/help.  It was not nearly as successful as the sledding at Grandma and Grandpas.  Oh well.  At least they had fun landing in the drainage ditch!

 Lily posing with Violet in their matching pjs!  Thanks, Aunt Kate!

 Andrew with Munchkin.  He is only allowed to handle the little critter in the bathtub.  Because she is fast.  And if he drops her she can't escape anywhere.  And I don't want little hamster/mouse hybrids when Munchkin meets the field mice that like to camp out in our fireplace.

 She is awfully cute, though.  And quite calm and patient about a 9 year old handling her in a porcelain tub with no escape tubes.  She's chill like that.