Seal Pup 1.0 has taken to referring to himself and his brother as "the children." I think it's hilarious. We wake up to, "the children are awake now..." We are nudged to come up with meal plans with, "the children are hungry..." and so on and so forth. When school closes for a federal holiday or because of snow, we discovered that the children become especially cranky because they are bored.
While the parental units are fun, they are small potatoes compared to teachers and school friends, apparently. In order to entertain "the children" for our last holiday, we visited the
southeastern Connecticut Children's Museum for a morning of fun (and apparently, "discovery"). It's a small and modest museum, but it does offer some opportunities for scientific and dramatic exploration
And, well, "the children" had fun. So there's that.
More pictures of "the children" can be found in
flickr.
Seal Pup 1.0 has taken to referring to himself and his brother as "the children." I think it's hilarious. We wake up to, "the children are awake now..." We are nudged to come up with meal plans with, "the children are hungry..." and so on and so forth. When school closes for a federal holiday or because of snow, we discovered that the children become especially cranky because they are bored. 
I can't speak for anyone else, but I would not call snow the greatest thing ever. It's cold, it's wet and it requires movement, these are not things that equal a winning combination. But the kids, they like snow.
Which is okay since they think shoveling snow is fun right now.
Probably not as pleased as Papa was, but pleased in their own way.
Because less time Papa spends moving snow about in the driveway means more time sledding, which is great, if you are into that sort of thing.
You may be shocked to discover that there are more pictures of snow (play and removal) in our 
Due to personal injury (and perhaps a little bit of stupidity), this post is happening a little later than I had planned. I threw out my back while lifting Pup 2.0 from a snowbank (because my life is full of glamour like that). I also sliced into my thumb while washing a pot (not one of my finer moments of 2010, but there you are). In any case, we had a great Christmas. We hope you did too.
The pups were royally spoiled. Papa and I agreed that this year was a little...excessive.
We spent our New Year's Eve at the public library in our new neighborhood, because we know how to party. Fun and functional at the same time, library cards for all!
