Elmo!

So, at Nibbles on Friday, we met up with a bunch of moms and kids in a meetup group we are a part of.  The big surprise that I was not expecting was that Elmo showed up too!  I expected Josh to either be frightened by this humongous Elmo, or Super Excited.  But neither, he took it in stride and played ring around the rosy like he was any other kid.  Elmo or Mo-Mo as he is known around here is a pretty good friend.  We watch Sesame Street at least once per day and love to cuddle with the Tickle Me Elmo Josh got from Mimi or PaPa Ben when he was born, so I was actually a little disappointed he wasn't more excited.  I guess I should be happy he wasn't scared.

Drawing

We got Josh some markers for the holidays.  these are markers that only work on special paper, so coloring has been a fun activity this year.  One afternoon Jared drew a picture of Elmo and Josh thought it was so funny. So then Jared added Josh (with a pacifier in his mouth.  I'm not sure if Josh had shoes on at the time).  Anyway, this was also met with hilarity, so Jared then added the cat in the hat.  I'll let you figure out who is who, but I thought this was such good drawing (I could never do this well) that I had to share.  Happy Thursday.

Snowpocalypse 2011

Well Chicago finally got some major snowfall, and though I think the TV stations are referring to it as Blizzard 2011, I like the more dramatic "Snowpocalypse" that is going around on the Interwebs! We got about 20 inches so far, but with the blowing wind, some of it was taller than Josh!

 I'm only 5 feet tall but you can see it was past my knees!

 Having some fun in the snow.

 Josh even got in on the fun. 

Enjoying some homemade hot chocolate afterwards.