Lego Museum January 2015

We love to introduce friends to the Lego museum, so on this day we took James' good friend Dane with us for a visit. We also met our friends, the Mesna boys, at the museum. Lunch afterwards made for a great day!

 

 

The tables Ana setup were a bit messy because they are in process of moving the layouts and adding to them? This was the last month they were open before the summer reveal. We can't wait to go back!

 

 

 

 

 

This Star Wars table looked to be new and in development...

 

 

Noah is a new Lego fan. He was pretty excited to see all the Legos!

 

 

 

 

 

The dudes talk Legos.

 

 

 

It was so fun to get all these Lego fans together!

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Random grown-up January stuff

The beginning of January means my precious Eiffel towers go back in storage.

 

 

The neighbor braved the thin ice. I kept my phone handy to call 911.

 

 

I love my husband because he listens to me (I needed something to organize and he bought me this from Ikea)!

 

 

My husband loves me because I drink craft beer from a vintage Star Wars glass!

 

 

My MIL ordered this LHOTP book for me for Christmas, it was back ordered, and then arrived!

 

 

Work friends, out to dinner!

 

 

I thought I saw my stepdad Larry at a red light but I knew he wouldn't wear a Packers jersey....

 

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School satisfaction

In 2nd grade we haven't heard too much from the teacher or from James about general school progress. James answers our questions okay but he doesn't say much else.

So we received this letter in his home folder and interpreted it as "I like school just fine!"

 

Too bad his iPod died and he had to read an old fashioned book on the bus!

 

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Sneaky on Vacay

We hadn't heard the last of Sneaky, in January. Sneaky wrote James a postcard from a sunny location!

 

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Minecraft Winter

Our winter break was full of Minecraft and Skylanders. Xbox games.

James received an Xbox Live subscription for Christmas, enabling him to play online with "friends". The friends are approved, obvious children also playing on Xbox. I liked this particular kid because he seemed sweet and a kid of color!

 

James also discovered iTunes and bought a few songs. A Minecraft song?! Who knew!

 

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NYE 2014

I keep trying to convince James that his bestie is Noah. Noah's mom, Jessica, is my best friend so it would really help if we all like to hang out. Well, Noah is only 3 (on NYE) and James is kind and patient but he has more mature interests. Ha!

The Mesna family came over to hang out with us on New Year's Eve. Jess and I hung out, the boys played, and the bigger boys (Jim and Andy) hung out in the basement and pretended they were pool sharks.

The small boys headed up to bed and James was very helpful. He shared his bed, read Noah some books, and helped to keep the excitement down.

 

 

 

 

 

So they tried to sleep.

 

 

It didn't end up working out so well. Noah got up multiple times and asked for his Mom from the top of the stairs. Jess was pregnant and couldn't keep getting up and down, so we ended up abandoning our sleepover efforts.

It was still nice to hang out!

Happy New Year!

 

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NYE 2014

I keep trying to convince James that his bestie is Noah. Noah's mom, Jessica, is my best friend so it would really help if we all like to hang out. Well, Noah is only 3 (on NYE) and James is kind and patient but he has more mature interests. Ha!

The Mesna family came over to hang out with us on New Year's Eve. Jess and I hung out, the boys played, and the bigger boys (Jim and Andy) hung out in the basement and pretended they were pool sharks.

The small boys headed up to bed and James was very helpful. He shared his bed, read Noah some books, and helped to keep the excitement down.

 

 

 

 

 

So they tried to sleep.

 

 

It didn't end up working out so well. Noah got up multiple times and asked for his Mom from the top of the stairs. Jess was pregnant and couldn't keep getting up and down, so we ended up abandoning our sleepover efforts.

It was still nice to hang out!

Happy New Year!

 

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Finishing up December 2014

A new Nerf weapon was purchased. Probably with Christmas cash!

 

A play date with a school friend Evan and neighbor buddy Sawyer. Playing Minecraft, of course!

 

Snuggling with Mom.

 

 

Fun stuff!

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Roseville Ice Arena

I received some fancy ice skates for Christmas (thanks Ana!) and I really wanted James to try skating. No pressure. Just enjoy it. And he was willing so I looked up the hours for a local ice arena that rents skates and we were off!

The ice arena had these support thingies so James was pretty confident scooting around. The actual skating motion escaped his efforts, but he'll learn!

 

And then he wanted to try without the support. I was patient and supportive. And I let him fall. It's good for him.

 

 

 

He just kept getting back up!

 

 

 

 

 

I used to skate a lot in my youth.. And I was excited to see if I could still skate well but I ended up needing to stick with James the whole time. One day I'll show him my moves :)

 

Proud Mom.

 

And we celebrated with ice cream afterwards. Of course!

 

We only made it skating once but maybe next year we'll get him some used skates and we can try the Blaine parks and warming houses.

 

 

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Winter toys

James received this snow (mobile) sled from his Uncle Joe. We barely had enough snow to make it work!

 

Cutie pie.

 

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Winter break

Parents deserve a winter break too! Cranberry margaritas.

 

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Xbox with friends

Three way Minecraft play! Winter break.

 

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