Even though winter can get long, we try to make the best of it, and try to get out from time to time….over Christmas break, we took the kiddos to Deanna’s Playhouse…they had a blast!
Owen LOVED the grocery store and scanning stuff for all of the other kids! 
Loretta and Henry were there too! and they even sat still for a few minutes for a ride in the wagon! 
Syd sat in the middle of the floor ‘pouring’ coffee creamer into my coffee cup forever! she was so focused! 
It was their New Year’s party day – so they had some fun crafts to make too! 
Even though we try to get out, we also spend quite a bit of time at home, especially during the week, since its hard to do much of anything once we get home from ‘school’, with a 7:00 bedtime!
so these two cuddle quite a bit together and with us….the other day, Owen insisted in giving Syd her milk before her nap….soooooo sweet! 
Syd can have herself a great ol’ time with a box of kleenex…on this particular night, owen was busy helping me put together a shelving unit for the living room, so she just plopped herself down on the chair and started making a little fortress of wadded up tissues…kept her QUITE content until we were finished building! 
Here’s O helping mom! 
This pic is not too clear, but soooo sweet! the kids each got rolling backpacks for christmas and they were a hit! they keep themselves SO busy just pulling them around together! Owen will bring his to school sometimes and ‘shares’ with syd and the two of them walk down the hall together pulling it together; its got to be just about the most adorable thing i’ve ever seen!
….And little miss Syd is also getting very self sufficient and wants to do EVERYTHINg by herself…she just looks so sweet on the stool brushing her teeth by herself! I love the fact that she has one shoe off for some reason….
The kiddos (and moms) also like to get together with friends and we’ve done that from time to time during weekends too – Syd LOVES ‘ON-RHEA’ (Henry) and Owen LOVES ‘No-Retta’
I also experimented with Syd’s hair and got some little rubber bands, and her hair is JUST long enough to make little piggy tails….you can’t see it great here, but it was the best pic i had of them….SO SWEET! she looks so grown up!
No reason in particular for this pic other than its just so stinking cute and so ‘Sydney’ – runnin around in her diaper with her little boots on…little stinker! 
Early in December, Great Grandma and Grandpa Kole rented out the Aquatic Center for the family as an early Christmas present….the kids were SO excited and so were we! We invited Kelly, Steve and Julia along and everyone had such a great time that GGma and GGpa are renting it out again in Feb!
Syd was most content either being held or playing with some buckets in the shallow area 
but she tried out the tire swing too! (its a fave of hers at school, and even more fun in the water!) clockwise thats syd, Justyce (hiding behind), Kenz and Julia….
Owen was a little dare devil and loved running through the water with Uncle Paul….that smile on his face is just priceless!
Now that it finally snowed enough to play in, we took the kiddos out one night after school and they both had a pretty fun time (owen probably more than syd)….
Syd got a rid on owen’s new sled – and thought that was FUN (and thanks to papa for making a non-pullable sled into a pullable one with the help of a ratchet strap!)
Syd had a lot more fun once we let her play with her shovel and bucket…she just sat on a little snow pile and shoveled the majority of the time we were out there so contently! 
…..and with that….. Syd will sign off by saying ‘bye and stay tuned for LOTS MORE blog posts!'
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