Laney fattening up nicely:

It’s rare to get all three kids in one camera shot!

Last weekend we went out west of Winston Salem to Stone Mountain (who knew there was another one?) for a nice hike with Laura and Dylan. Despite the picture, I carried one child or the other for most of the hike and it was steep enough that I was a bit (okay, a lot) sore for a few days.

Poor little bitty got her two month vaccines yesterday afternoon and has slept almost constantly since then, with the exception of a few minutes of whimpering here and there. (Don’t worry, she’s eating/peeing/pooping and is quite arousable, just tired!)

Tommy gave a talk tonight at Lenovo on “Using Technology to Overcome Human Weakness.” He’s so badass that people just ask him to talk to large groups of smart people these days. Although he has yet to figure out how to use technology to help me get two babies in bed by 8 by myself while he’s giving talks.

We won’t post a picture of the vomiting and misery that’s actually going on today at the Rose house. Instead, here’s a nice picture of Kaya a few hours before she started blowing chunks.

Put her on a running dryer! (Parental supervision provided, of course)

Laney hates tummy time – she cries immediately when on her belly, so I got worried that she wasn’t getting enough neck muscle exercise. She lasts about a minute on the dryer – a huge improvement! Look at those neck muscles working…

We got only a small bit of ice overnight – so no fun snow pictures from this morning. Instead, here’s a picture Kaya took of Laney and I during her two hour delay from school. She’s getting to be a pretty good photographer, eh?

We were happy to have a full weekend at home this week – we filled up on Waffle House and spent Saturday at the Museum of Life and Science who had a temporary exhibit on snow and igloos and ice. A big hit with our Frozen-obsessed toddler.  Do you want to throw a snowball? (sung to the tune of Do you Want to Build a Snowman?)

We packed up the Christmas decorations today. I have two toddler observations:
1. It is not a good idea to pack Elf in a transparent bin and leave it out for your toddler to see.
2. Toddlers can teach us something about gratitude and satisfaction.  Gammy made Kaya a collection of 24 wrapped books at the beginning of December, with the theory that she would unwrap one a day and get to read a new Christmas book each night. The first night went great – she unwrapped a book and we read it and she loved it.  However, she wanted to read that book every night. I got her to open two more books, which she didn’t like as much as the first, and then she refused to open any more books. Why would she need a new book when she had a book she liked already? So we now have 21 leftover books – we’ll try again next year! Maybe she’ll be more greedy then.