Cookies anyone?

Today on our first official Winter Break day, we decided to decorate our Christmas cookies. We are carrying on the Kuehne family tradition and making cookies and decorating with fancy icing! Ava chose to make purple icing - surprise, surprise! She did a great job of covering the whole cookie with frosting, but she still likes to empty the entire container of sprinkles on one cookie!!This was Ryan's first time decorating - Ava has one up on him. He has many more years of it to come!!

No School!!

Yesterday it was so icy outside that both Ryan and I had NO SCHOOL!! It was kind of nice because I had already taken the day off because Ava has been sick. I woke up this morning to a call saying that I again have no school. Ryan is just on a 2 hours delay. Ava has been dying to go outside and play. We don't own a sled and we didn't even have any snow, but everything was a sheet of ice. Ryan actually parked the car on the driveway and it just slid down it. Check out Ryan enjoying himself with the ice and taking Ava 'sledding' on his homemade sled (the side of a cardboard box!) He is so ghetto!!!

Too cute to be mad....

So yet another day of not napping. I think that she is not getting all of her energy out of her because she is trapped inside. This is going to be a LONG winter. At first I was really irritated with her, but it didn't last long. I went into her room to find her putting on her leotard. I asked her what she was doing and she replied that she was going to dance class. What a little dancer - I think she has a great future ahead of her!!!

I also managed to get her jumping off the ottoman.

Snow Fun!!

Today we had quite the busy day. We started the day off by shopping and visiting Santa. Liam was his normal laid back self and Ava was very good on his lap. Sometimes around strangers she clams up, but she actually told him a few things she wanted, then I had to finish for her. The best part was the candy cane ring pop that he gave her!!

Ava decided that she wasn't going to take a nap today, so we got our snow clothes on and went and played in the snow. Ava's favorite thing to do was to eat the snow. We tried making snow angels, but hers did not turn out too great. It is hard to get up off the snow when you are all bundled up!! I think Ryan and I had as much fun, if not more out there. We built a snow baby and were sliding down the yard. Check Ryan out doing his Pete Rose imitation!!

We even had time to do a family picture. Ava is not the best at letting me take her picture, so this is a rare occurance!!

Catch up.....

So a lot has happened in the Potter family in the past month. The kids have been keeping us really busy and entertained! Liam is now officially crawling. He actually got off his belly and started crawling on his 7 month birthday. He is starting to pull himself up on things, but is not too good at it. He comes home from the babysitters with war wounds almost daily. He has one tooth completely through, another one about ready to break through any minute, and his 2 top teeth coming in, so he has been pretty pleasant!!!

Not much is new with Ava. She thinks that she is so daring and loves to jump off of things. It started with her bed, now she LOVES to get on the ottoman and jump off of it. She is not enjoying Liam's freedom of crawling as much as he is. She realizes that they like to play with the same things. I can't wait until he is big enough to shove her out of the way. She has plenty of shoves due her way soon!

We have our Christmas decorations up. Ava had a wonderful time decorating the tree and is still enjoying decorating it by constantly taking ornaments on and off. Liam loves staring at the lights on the tree. I think this weekend we are going to attempt a trip to see Santa - that should be interesting!

As for Ryan and I.....not much. As always, waiting for our next break from school!