Happy New Year!
Things have been fun and busy at our house. So while the blog and photos have been ready for a while, we're posting a little late this time! :) Enjoy!
January was a fun and busy month!
It took a few days to get back into our school and work
routine, but we had a great time playing with our friends at school this month!
And we continue to enjoy playing with friends at church and at playgroup (we
got to go on Martin Luther King holiday!) We’ve enjoyed a mostly healthy month,
too, which makes things all the better!
Our family went on some great outings! We went to the final night of Zoo
Lights. We had so much fun seeing all the lights, and got a great indoor look
at the gorillas eating their dinner! We also got to enjoy the last night of the Walk Of
Lights at Meadowlark Gardens, including a beautiful performance by the Vienna
Choral Society. What a wonderful
way to round out our holiday season!
We also bid farewell to the season by helping out at home taking down
the tree and lights – although we were still fairly melancholy about that for a
couple of weeks afterward! So…we decided to leave our snowflakes on the
windows, along with the new hearts we put up, to keep things festive.
We took a family trip to see the fish at the aquarium over a
chilly weekend, and we loved seeing the dolphins jump! On Sunday after church,
we had lots of yummy fun playing with cars during brunch at Silver Diner –
and we even go to use real plates and grownup silverware!
We’ve had lots of fun at home too, building towers,
playing a little basketball, sliding on our indoor slide (because it’s been
“BRRRR, cold outside”), playing “ring-around-the-rosy” together and trying out
the fun new toys we got for Christmas.
We’ve even gotten a little crafty, using our new art easel and paints to
make some pretty creations.
And at the end of the month, we got a little SNOW at our house
– enough to at least take the sled in the backyard, although no one wanted to
ride it this time. And we made our
very first Keller family snowman!
Mommy and Daddy made sure to snap some quick pictures before we were
able to demolish it with our snow tools. We decided to leave him up, but the
sudden turn to almost 70 degree temperatures brought a quick end to our snowman just a few
days later.
We continue to surprise Mommy and Daddy with the things we
know how to say. Our favorite new
phrase with Daddy at bedtime is “peace out dude”. Much to Mommy’s chagrin, this
one has currently replaced the “I love you’s” that are often heard through the
monitor after we go to bed. But we
continue to entertain by singing fun songs when we wake in the morning, as well
as throughout the day. Some of our
favorites are Jingle Bells, the ABC’s, Twinkle Twinkle, Happy Birthday, No More
Monkeys Jumping On The Bed, and “Who Built The Ark – Noah, Noah”… Mommy taught
us this one so we could help her out at Sunday school!
While we had a pretty active month, we didn’t spend as much
time capturing photos of our fun.
We do have a few cute pictures to share below, and we hope you enjoy
them!
We hope you had a wonderful beginning to 2013!
Love,
Christopher and Katharine
