Wayyyy behind in posting!

I realized I never even posted our Santa pictures from Christmas... better late than never.  I love how Ethan is so uninterested and focused on his candy cane while Miss Emeree is having a hissy fit.

This smile of Ethan's is my favorite!!

And I tend to use Emeree's lap to hold things while I'm carrying her in the car seat and don't have enough hands to carry everything... like library books/movies, and even a big bowl of pasta.  I love how she's peeking out from behind the bowl.  It reminds me of that one cartoon comic strip guy.

Minute to Win it Activity

Michael and I are both leaders in YM and YW at church.  Our joint activity last night was a Minute to Win it competition.  One of the games is called "Junk in the Trunk" where you strap a kleenex box on your back and jump and wiggle around to get all the ping pong balls out. . . here's a link to the game on the tv show.

After all the youth made it through this game, we strapped it on Ethan and let him try it.  He kept it on and tried for about 30 minutes.  After the first few minutes of not getting any out, he settled for running around and picking up the ones from other games and collecting them in the box.

Trying to Exercise

Michael found this plan to be able to do 100 push-ups in a row and 200 sit-ups in a row.  It's supposed to be a 6 week plan, but of course since he's Michael, he condensed it into a 3 week plan.  And of course he printed out a spreadsheet for me too.  (but my numbers are a lot lower than his - yesterday he had to do 4 sets of 45-50 sit ups each - I only had to to 4 sets of about 15 each).

And of course that means that the kids crawl all over us while trying to exercise.  We mostly try to do these when it's nap time or bed time.  It's a little easier that way :)

We don't use the "ab roller" thing normally, but it's impossible to do a sit up with a 2 year old on your chest, so we got this out of the garage so Ethan could participate.