The Week in Life 12/26-12/31

Our Zebra :)

Luke's VERY TALL McQueen

 Our Week post-Christmas was spent winding down after a bunch of parties and visiting with family. Luke played with his legos pretty much nonstop and was very proud to show off his creations. The animals were joint work with mom and dad, while the very tall McQueen and and an unpictured space ship were all his own ideas.

Giraffe!

We pretty much just played each day and I avoided going anywhere and doing anything like housework or grocery shopping. On Friday the boys and I took the 45 minute drive out towards Chantilly to visit some awesome friends from Germany! The kids played nicely (although separately) and it was great to catch up.

We decided to go to the Air and Space Museum on Saturday since I had been promising Luke that we would go since Thursday. Luke thought the planes were very cool. Devin was very unimpressed and wanted to get out of the stroller, run and destroy things. Devin's new nickname is actually "Destructo Devin" because he is so fond of tearing apart Luke's lego creations. It's funny and I get to hear Luke tell Destructo Devin to stop breaking his legos.

Doing sciency things.

Devin's favorite exhibit was the one with golden arches.

Luke LOVED the "toy" airplanes. He was kind of ADD bouncing from thing to thing.

While this museum had some great historic artifacts it was definitely more for the science/engineering geek. I think I will like the American History museum more. The most interesting thing to me was this quote I found on the wall.

We came home and put the kids to bed, then rang in the New Year by eating popcorn & Cheer Wine and watching The Town (I liked it). This was a WAY better New Year's celebration than last year since it didn't involve Military Police showing up to my house, guns, or Justin giving a statement. Good times. There's a funny story there, but probably not appropriate for the blog. And yea, we were old farts and went to bed at 10:30.


Random Things:
* Luke has started making very colorful pictures and has become much more interested in drawing. He gives light kisses all the time and is really helpful to his little brother. When he's not stealing toys from Devin, Lukas is helping him put on shoes or fix broken toys.

* Devin is a monster. He is go go go and is really rambunctious. Because he was having an awful time falling asleep at night, I decided to try the no-nap experiment. We are on day two.. Neither of the kids has napped and they go right to bed at 7-7:30 without any crying, fussing, rocking or holding. It's working so far. RIP nap time...I actually just shed a tear.