Izzy takes Alice for a walk

We're not sure who was in charge here, or who had their tongue out farther!

Shoveling

Despite a couple days of 60degree weather, we recently had a pretty good snowstorm. Although her heart is in the right place -- and it's fun to have her try to help out -- Alice spent all of her time shoveling snow back ONTO the sidewalk, making more work for Daddy!

Grocery shopping

We thought we'd kind of retired the blog, but we've had a lot of requests for 2yo pictures and stuff, so we'll try to get some pictures up over the next few days. Here's a very long video of Alice grocery shopping with Daddy. This is pretty much how all shopping trips with Kirke go - Alice does all the work, and occasionally gets distracted by helium balloons.

Christmas Chocolate

There has been much to be joyous about this Christmas season-- Grandma Sandy is getting healthier, Kirke and Sarah have had lots of vacation days, and Alice discovered chocolate. We have had the distinct pleasure of seeing lots of family so far, and we look forward to seeing more this week!

Christmas Mustache.....

Kirke has very fond memories of his father's very bushy mustache. Unfortunately, his prior attempts to grow one of his own have required some photoshopping. This year, I am happy to report that his mustache, while not entirely bushy, was visible to the naked eye. Happily, Mo-vember passed and the experiment finished.

Marching

Alice LOVES the University of Wisconsin Marching Band. They practice outside near the hospital, so on warm days, we'll go down and watch them rehearse for a while. Then on football Saturdays, we go down to the stadium and do some tailgating and pre-gaming with friends while the band performs by the student union, before all marching up to the field together. Now that it's getting colder outside, we don't see the band in person as much any more. Luckily, we managed to find a decent YouTube video of the band performing, and so now we just march around inside the house. Who says television-watching leads to inactive kids?

Tumbler

Alice had a full-scale, head-over-heels, multiple summersault tumble down all the stairs today that would have been really funny if it wasn't kind of scary. We knew Alice was ok when she decided to start placing an icepack on her baby Dolly's head to make it feel better. Here Alice shows Daddy where it hurts right after her accident, and then later decides that she's had enough cuddling, and can handle the ice-to-forehead duties for the rest of the night.