life in alaska

The twins are potty-trained, time to start blogging again. Brady was just begging Carson to share something with him. C said no, because "it hurts my heart to share things with people." Immediately after I wrote this, Carson touched something I had just told him absolutely not to touch. "Didn't you hear me tell you not to touch it?" I asked. "Yes." "Why didn't you obey me?" "Well, my head heard you but my hands didn't," he grinned at me.

Here's the twins pre-buzz...

I'm hoping our friendly neighborhood moose isn't the one who was hit and then "disposed of" the other night down the street. He was cute.

Explanation of below: the littles tear up the couch a dozen times a day. It becomes their indoor playground. And I couldn't resist posting a pic of my little construction hotties.

January's nearly over! It's getting lighter. I noticed it was nearly light at 9:30 this morning :)

I'll post some pics of the kids and some of Alaska to catch up a bit to speed. They're growing lots! I'll try to youtube a couple video clips today but it'll be sporadic. I don't usually put longer stuff on facebook, but I'll link some footage of the kids playing in the snow and stuff like that.

It's slowly growing lighter. Not a lot of snow on the ground. Most of what we had melted during the little thaw we had a few weeks ago. Owen looks outside and says, "I see the snow! Snow hebby." (heavy)

I just put Carson in a timeout. While he was sitting there I was talking to him about what he had done.
Me - You know you can't hurt people, right? Is it okay to hurt people?
Carson - No.
Me - Is it okay to hurt people to get something you want?
Carson - (thinking for a moment) - Um, yes?

This was the little clip I took in Homer with the kids. Basically, we had a lot of fun, got wet and sandy, roasted some hot dogs, and tried to keep the babies out of the ocean and the fire. It was our "last hurrah" before school started.

We spontaneously drove down to Homer Sunday for a last fun thing before school started. We camped on the Spit - a 2-something mile sand spit out into the ocean for you "outsiders" - and it was our first official family camping trip. Wow. I'll upload a little video clip later. We had fun, nearly lost our minds, didn't lose any kids.

It's the first day of sixth grade for Riley, fourth grade for Logan, and first grade for Emmie.

Carson was crying over something and I was holding him, comforting him:
Me - You're precious to me.
Carson - Yeah
Me - You're a great little man.
Carson - Yeah, I'm like a spiderman.