This 'n' that

How was your weekend?

We had a visit from some beloved family, long hours spent gabbing, eating, and playing with the kids. I am honored and humbled when people love my kids, I mean really love them. It never ceases to amaze me.

And they came baring gifts! Just home from a lovely Caribbean cruise - all relaxed, glowy, and tan - then presented us with a pretty killer souvenir:

Coconut rum filled chocolates?!
You know it's good when it comes with a warning label.

I also received a slightly belated Christmas gift from my mom - a beautiful fingerprint necklace with the boys' fingerprints and initials. Love.

I never thought I'd find a piece of "mother's" jewelry that I liked, but this? Oh, I'm just loving this.



Other than the big boy's screaming while we pressed his finger into a clay block,
I love everything about this necklace.

In other weekend news, there were dueling doodles. 

Whatever he's got: I want it.

And stories.

1.) Don't be hatin' on my sweet hairdo. 2.) Sailor? Escapee from baby prison? I don't
know. All I know is I like me some fat baby belly in horizontal stripes.

We enjoyed every last second of our winter-weather reprieve.

The conversation goes like this: "Blew!" "No, honey, that's purple."
Pause. Furrowed baby eyebrows. Then firmly, "Blew." "Okay, then, blue it is."



So now our company has left us, laundry piles and sticky milk rings await me, and we are back to hovering-around-zero temps. Sigh. It was dang good while it lasted though.