9/365 – Sun. 1/9/11 :: Wet Winter

Mark’s poor grill, which he actually just used on Friday and unfortunately forgot to recover, suffering under a layer of frozen wet stuff. I awoke this morning to pouring rain, which by noon turned to snow.  Such a weird transition.  And it just somehow seems wrong that we even got snow at all. After spending the last part of December in “real” midwestern snow, I feel entitled to balmy weather back here. :b

(Note that while we deflated the kids pool, it never actually got put away. For some reason, I’m not expecting it to be in usable condition whenever the weather finds its way back to hot.)

8/365 – Sat. 1/8/11 :: No Pictures Please – Part B

It seems that Matthew has caught Kaylee’s case of camera-avoidance. I don’t remember either of them being this difficult last year. I wasn’t asking him to pose; I just wanted a candid. But all I got were shots of him hiding under the blanket, or alternatively, actively avoiding me, knowing I couldn’t get a decent shot without flash in the low light if he didn’t stay at least somewhat still.

{Sigh} I may have to switch to random object shots for a while until they’re ready to cooperate again. Either that, or I just need to figure out how to be sneakier. ;)

7/365 – Fri. 1/7/11 :: Most Important Meal of the Day

A typical school morning breakfast. Matthew has Nutrigrain Eggo waffles 95% of the time. Kaylee almost always has a high-fiber Kellogg’s cinnamon Pop-Tart, and she always has one or two out of the dozens of stuffed animals she sleeps with join her at the table. Don’t they look energized and excited and ready to face the day? ;)

6/365 – Thur. 1/6/11 :: Audio Book

Kaylee doing her daily required free reading. (Is that an oxymoron?)  She still usually prefers to read aloud to one of us, rather than just silently to herself, so I got to listen to 20 minutes from one of the “My Weird School Daze” books. :)

5/365 – Wed. 1/5/11 :: Hiding from Homework

Since Kaylee gets home from school so much earlier than Matthew, she’s well into her homework before he gets started, which really adds to the challenge of keeping her focused some days. Today she decided to procrastinate by crawling under the table while Matthew was eating a bowl of cereal.

4/365 – Tue. 1/4/11 :: No Pictures Please

School started back up today. Kaylee was in no mood to cooperate for pictures when she got home. She did everything she could to ignore me while watching a little TV before she had to start her homework.

3/365 – Mon. 1/3/11 :: Beginning to Look Less Like Christmas

We took down the Christmas decorations today. This set of plastic sugarplum ornaments are ones that my parents bought for my first Christmas (I think).  It’s looking much plainer in here now, but it’s nice to have some breathing room again without the giant tree right by my desk.