Snow Baby

Thomas loves to play outside in the snow! While I was working late yesterday, Alan and Thomas built a snow fort. Alan took lots of pictures for me! What a good guy! Thomas was so surprised that his fort was still there this morning and again when we got home this evening. He's proud of all his hard work.

Peeking out his window.

Thomas likes to play (what he calls) "snow tag." Really, it's snow ball fight. He has deemed Alan and I bad guys and likes to throw snow balls at us. Likewise, he likes them thrown at him. When I pulled up in the driveway last night, the 2 of them ambushed me and then hid in their fort. Thomas was cracking up. So fun to watch my 2 boys play together :)

Little Fishy

We are in Traverse City for the day. Alan has a distance learning class here. Why does he have a class here? He is working on his Masters Degree through GVSU, but doesn't like to take the traditional go to class every week type courses. Rather, he does distance learning and only has to report a couple of times on the weekends and submits all his work online. This is the farthest he's ever had to go for a class. While Alan was at his class, Thomas and I played in the pool.

With the assistance of his Aquajogger, Jr belt, Thomas is totally independent in the water. He uses one of these belts when we go to the gym. He's getting really strong in the water. Thomas will swim contiuously for 1-1.5 hours, all the while jumping, splashing, racing with Mommy, and going underwater. I figured the pool at the hotel wouldn't be nearly as fun if he didn't have a belt of his own, so I ordered one.

Hoping that this big swim tired him out. We'll be leaving the hotel soon to get Alan from class and we're hoping that he'll sleep most of the 3 hour car ride home. Wish us luck! But first....we should probably do a little shopping....

Happy New Year!

We rang in the new year with our great friends, John and Suzie. They treated us to a wonderful evening. We played lots of Scrabble (yes, we are old now), ate delicious fondue, and shared many laughs. The perfect way to welcome in the next decade. Good friends and good times!f