All in a day's work...

This is my little Sous Chef in the kitchen-borrowing her brother's apron and whisk...

Whenever there's power tools involved, Ty will be promptly underfoot, quite literally! Here are 3 generations of Regan Men installing something in the kitchen...

Marlo & Gunnar leaning on each other...

Go go go, you two little walkers :)

There's our little handyman!

Ty finally agreed to do a double bathtime with his Sissy, and just as we suspected, he thoroughly enjoyed it! However, here I am (in a very artsy shot huh?) beckoning Tommy to "give me that camera! Don't take pics of me in my pajamas!!! Get the kids!"

Crazy hair is always fun!

After Sissy's time expired by virtue of being heavily prune-y, Ty wanted his turn in the "baby" bath. Wow, this sure brought back some memories of his little infant body in this tub, it feels like only months ago he was in it!

STRIIIIKE! (Not.)

Well 2010 is here, and while we're trying to dodge sickness (and pretty much FAILING at that-each child has had no less than 3 colds and a virus since Thanksgiving!) and stay warm in this ridiculously cold weather-we are getting to do some fun things to keep us busy!



January 5 was the wonderfully momentous occasion of Banks' Fifth Birthday :) For a dog whom we spend a majority of the time scolding, he sure does get pampered too! Ty wanted to make him a birthday treat, so we made dog cookies...


Measuring out the eccentric ingredients...whole wheat flour, beef barley, garlic powder, powdered milk...eek.


Whisking in the egg. Note to self: DO NOT make savory dog treats (especially ones containing beef derivatives) at any hour before noon, and certainly be ready to burn some heavily scented candles afterwards (OR make a very aromatic pumpkin bread with a cinnamon streusel topping-with just a hint of cardamom, mmm, which is what I did!)

Gotta use that good ol' rolling pin!

Snow Day!

Puzzles are currently Ty's favorite pasttime...

Look at those chompers :)

Ty decided it would be kind of fun to put nearly every one of my racing medals around his neck (including the Little Rock Marathon one-which is apparently the World's largest, ha!)




Teasing her best (furry) friend at the back door!

Nah nah na boo boo!

Bumper Bowling! Ty's very first time! It started out kind of rough-as in, he was having a tantrum as we walked in to the bowling alley. However, as soon as he tossed (barely flicked!) his ball for the first time, he was hooked! Thankfully, there were snacks and juice as time fillers between turns. Marlo just cozied along in the sling and said "baa" or "ball" about 725 times. He made it about 8 frames (impressive) and I think his score was about 25 or 30 (yes, TOTAL!) by that point. He couldn't have cared less about how many pins went down, and a few times he got so impatient with how slow the ball went down the lane that he wandered off and forgot to watch the end result of his turn, ha! If you must know, it was a CODE BROWN that called him away from his game before its completion. Don't know what that is? I'll give you one glaring hint: BOWLING ALLEYS DO NOT HAVE CHANGING TABLES IN THEIR RESTROOMS...)

There were other important things to do besides watching your ball go insanely slow down the lane , (as deemed appropriate by a toddler boy of course), like eat pretzels, try to lift up 18 lb. balls, and stare at the endless black abyss that is the ball return thingy!...

All together now, "COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!"

And if you have the patience, here's a video of one of those painfully slow throws...remember I had to watch about 16 of these...I'm waiting with bated breath for my "World's Most Patient Mom" Medal. I'll gladly wear that bling!

TWO NEW POSTS BELOW :)

Another Fun Week...

So, Ty has discovered Skype. He now requests to "see GG" several times a day! I think sometimes he's so enthralled with the fact that he's seeing GG and Grandpa live that he forgets to talk, he'll just stand there and stare! It's amazing how much technology he'll grow up with.

"Hi Grandpa!"

Tom had off work the week after Christmas so we ventured out for a few outings.

First, it was to the Aquarium with GG and Grandpa.

Scuba Santa...

Who's boy are you Ty???

It was during Marlo's naptime, so she konked out in the sling, her favorite place to be :)

Maybe I should've titled this post "Grandpa's Boy!" Ha!

Another family photo op!

The very next day we decided to hit the Museum Center-the Cincinnati History part to be exact. No one else had ever been to that section (besides the kids and I), so we had a lot of fun checking out all the history of the city and seeing the Holiday Train display again. Here we are all taking a ride on the real street car. This was the first time Ty would even set foot near this thing!

<3

Ty, catchin' a ride :)

We decided to sneak down to the Children's Museum too because Ty was insistent on showing Grandpa the hammers! He got a little distracted at the play kitchen. Here he is serving up some goodies to GG.

After the museum we went right on over to Frisch's for lunch. Marlo skipped her morning nap this day and fell asleep right in the high chair with toast in hand. This was the first time either of our children have fallen asleep while eating, I was very amused :) Poor little girl :)

I guess the week's activities and the Holidays wiped Marlo out, she ended up getting a fever Saturday. It really konked her out for a few days, my poor little baby. Daddy did NOT have a problem kickin' back and letting her nap on him while he watched some football.

It was back to work for Tom this week and back to the usual daily activities for us at home, however this 20 degree weather is keeping us shut in the house, BRRRRRR! I'm ready for either a freaky warm Winter day OR a BIG FAT SNOWSTORM! Bring it on.