Snow, Snow and more Snow...but not really

The first "snow" of the year Jason and Kaleb got a little overzealous and decided to go out sledding before there was much snow even on the ground.My favorite way to burn off the baby weight...
It amazes me that in Tennessee the weatherman has such power. Just a forecast of snow can shut down schools before the first snowflake falls...and if it doesn't snow...oh well, the kids have a day off and the parents have to stay home from work...It seems crazy to me that they can get out of school for a week for an inch of snow...but we're here and were not going anywhere so I guess we need to get used to it!
So, it takes about 20 min for us to get ready and put all of our snow gear on to go out and play. On average we are out for about 7 minutes before Kaleb is ready to go back in. It takes me about 10, so I'm okay with his decisions most of the time...and its a great excuse for hot chocolate and a warm fire.
Here we are enjoying a nice fire on a snow night.


Today it is 54 degrees so it is a nice change. Hopefully there will be more warm days to come!

Chase is 3 months...already

It's so cool to see a personality develop already in a 3 month old. Chase seems to be a very happy guy. He has recently found he hands and seems very intrigued by them.For a while he would scream and cry every night at dinner...One night we decided to put him at the table with us and he hasn't cried since. Who would have thought that he was feeling left out! Now he just happily sits and plays with his hands and blows bubbles.
One of Chase's new favorite pastimes is blowing bubbles...he sure can drool!
GATOR HATER!! from the start...Go Vols!
Chase has had a few firsts recently. He took his first trip to the zoo this Saturday b/c it was about 65 degrees on January 29th. It was a great day and a relief from the cold weather we have been having.
Last weekend we went to the circus. Chase slept happily in his carseat the whole show and just woke up at the end to eat.

The year of the BATMAN

When Kaleb was 2 he was obsessed with Thomas the train....Now that he is 3 he has moved on to bigger and bolder things...BATMAN! He got the batman cave for Christmas and plays with it non stop...he has batman clothes, pajamas, underwear, socks and sunglasses. He eats, breathes and sleeps batman. Below he is on the way to school for pajama day.
Here he is at the dinner table as the Riddler battles it out with Batman. The other day at dinner he stated "When I grow up, I'm going to be a GREAT BAD GUY!"
He is so rambunctious and has no fear. Here he is at the zoo doing dives off the platform and running at diving into forward rolls with some bigger kids. They did this over and over for about 10 min until we had to go....man, I wish I still had that much energy.

Despite all his excitement to fight bad guys and run around like crazy, he has a big compassionate heart. Our life group has decided to do a service project every month and involve the kids so they learn how to give. In January we collected toys for an orphanage in Africa that our friends were adopting from. We told Kaleb that there were boys and girls in Africa with no toys...He said, "That makes me sad" I thought that's nice, but what is he really going to do when he starts to see his toys go in the box...well, he seemed happy to give them...later he even wanted to give his vitamins to the kids in Africa...(I'm sure they need them even more than toys). We're so proud of him and are so glad he's such a passionate guy (even if it is about batman)!