Snow day again today. Casey was thrilled with the snow & we enjoyed some crashing cars, hiding in the fort we made in the living room, dancing, coloring, and book reading. We also watched a little Monster Trucks. Apparently Casey's favorite is Grave Digger, and each time he sees it there's an excited yell "Look, that's GRAVE DIGGER!!!"
Claire didn't care about the snow. She gnawed on anything available and drooled all over us. Teething, anyone?

Please note the overalls, worn by Casey, orignally worn by Caroline.

We had "big snow" on Dec 27th. Casey LOVED it. Work & prison were closed Monday & Tuesday, so we were home enjoying the snow & some unexpected family time. We headed to work on Wednesday and then it took us 4 hours to get home due to the lack of proper plowing. The kids were excellent during our ridiculously long car trip. We stopped to feed Claire a couple hours in & while I was outside the car returning Claire to her seat so we could continue sitting in traffic Matt shot windshield washer fluid at me. He claims it was an accident. We stopped a bit later to feed Casey & let him use the restroom. Then he listened to some Phish music. I hope never to have it take 4 hours to get from Tinton Falls to Toms River EVER AGAIN.

Claire has 2 teeth (front bottom). She's working on more, but teeth are assholes and cause pain, no sleep, and take forever to come in. Favorite foods this week include Cheerios, Kix, puffs, broccoli, green beans, mashed potatos, and bananas. She's not so thrilled with the baby food anymore, although she will eat mangos or applesauce. She's been standing on her own for a couple seconds at a time and holding onto things to get around while standing. Casey does not like this. He also is not liking that she tries to play with his toys.
Hit Christmas present for Claire...a box from a toy Casey got.

Casey got a haircut over the weekend. He informed me he needed a hair cut because Claire could pull his hair again. And they give him a lollipop there. He enjoyed playing in the big snow, was SUPER excited for Christmas. He's been singing Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer since the beginning of December. He's started quoting movies and announcing that he likes certain songs.
Current musical favorites include: Life is a Highway (or as Casey calls it Laughin on the Highway/the Cars song), Single Ladies (it's in the Chipmunk Squeakquel), Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars (aka the Amazing song), and Phish music.
Hit Christmas presents: pickup truck that plays Life is a Highway...and this car apparently cannot drive without the song being sung loudly by Casey or having the song played; working tow truck; Hess truck.