Random Januaryness

All our Christmas decorations are down, and things are pretty much back to normal around here.  Dax still wants to watch "Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special" quite a bit and Cora still sings "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" pretty much every day (which is hilarious because she says, "Like a lightbulb!" during the whole song, like this:  "Woo-dof the red nose weindeeeeer had a vewy shiney nose - WIKE A WITE-BUB! an if you evah saw it, you wood even say it gwow WIKE A WITE-BUB! Aw of the udder reindeeeeer use to waf and caw him names WIKE A WITE-BUB!  They nevuh wet poh woo-dooof join in any weindeer games WIKE A WITE-BUB!"  You get the idea.) 

Nothing too big to report, we are just chugging along.  Cora, unfortunately, has started to think she doesn't need to take a nap.  Even more unfortunately, she uses the time she used to use for napping to make messes in her room.  On her floor/bed are the contents of her two bottom drawers and most of her box of wipes.  Little stinker!

Lately Arden has been on a jeans-strike.  She just wants to wear skirts and leggings every day...well, she wants to wear skirts but I make her wear leggings, even though the weather has been near 50 degrees most of this week.  I finally talked her into wearing some jeans this week, and was so excited I had to take a picture to document:

We have been lucky enough to play outside quite a bit this week, and the kids have even been taking off their jackets (sorry, no pictures).  It still gets dark pretty early, so we have been playing a lot of Hungry Hungry Hippos, Hi-Ho Cherry-Oh and Go Fish.  Luckily, Cora is a pretty fast learner and has figured out the rules of all of these games!  Dax can play them all too, but he refuses to give up any of his green fish (his favorite color) when we play go fish.  We also have been doing some art projects.  Here are my two little abstract painters: 

It actually snowed today, and feels a little bit like winter.  More on that later...