The January Blah

Here we are, right in the middle of January.  I call it the "January Blah".  I hide in my house and dream of nice weather.  The kids usually have colds (as we do right now) and are tired of being cooped up.  There's not really anything to look forward to.  No holidays or birthdays in our family.  Josh's work is slow, so there's not money to do anything fun (like Disneyland, sigh). It's just blah.

We decided to take Holden's binky away a few days ago.  He sleeps wonderfully at night without it (yay!).  But he won't nap without it (aughhh!).  It was pretty pathetic the first couple of days.  He would walk around the house with tears in his eyes saying "Inky, 'ere are yoooh".  I felt like a mean Mommy.  But he seems to be doing okay.  He hasn't mentioned it once today. And we can see his cute face!

Here's our cute binkyless Bubby.

Holden has developed a new obsession: MY ipod touch!!  I don't really like him to play with it (he already deleted some stuff) so I have to keep it hidden from him.  But when I need a few minutes of peace I get it out.  It's amazing how quickly kids are learning things these days!

A rare moment of brotherly love.  They enjoy being cowboys together.

Jensen has watched Ally and Logan bring home trophies through the years and has been asking when he would get his own.  Well, they had the Reflections awards assembly yesterday and his dream came true!  I told him I didn't know if he would get a trophy, but he was actually a school winner in the Visual Arts category.  He was so happy to finally have a trophy.  He didn't even realize (or care) that he was a school winner.  He just wanted a trophy!  Way to go, Jensen!