Christmas and some other stuff.

 

Box Fort City.  When it was still small.

Doodles does his own hair and make-up.

An Elly tunnel.

Trip to Cave of the Mounds with Papa

Getting the arils out of a pomegranate 

First trip to a children's museum in a long time... and sadly the last for a while

Exploring the brand new outdoor part of the children's museum

Making Christmas cookie dough.

Learning about fire safety with some hands-on playing with fire.

Cutting out the Christmas cookies

Pope school playground

Making a video of a box fort city tour.

Decorating Christmas cookies.

Some of the cookies got ALL the sprinkles.

Christmas morning!!!

Opening stockings

Puppy says his stocking smells good but he still doesn't have opposable thumbs.

Opening presents 

I am Groot. 

Dino egg slimy stuff

Trying out his scooter he got from Elly

Elly trying her new scooter

The ice cream shop is open.

Pirate Nathan.  Christmas dinner at Papa's.  

Upside down pirate Nathan.

Another addition to the popular series "Doodles in a box"

Climbing rocks and looking for bugs to vacuum up.

Elly starting to wear down after a very exciting day

Turtle.

Hunting for bugs in the basement

Elly already getting the hang of her new scooter thing

The first snowman of the season

Visiting the capitol

Some serious sledding

Gingerbread houses

Burrito head.

A nice start to Snow Mountain 2022.

Doodles lounging outside of box fort city

Elly and Nathan put on a drumming and dancing show

Making home-made mozzarella cheese

Tunneling into Snow Mountain

Elly showing off her construction job

Trying out the new pottery wheel

Hitting the slopes.

Nathan, the official sledding photographer, gets a better view from above.

Running start...

The 4-person sled train seemed doomed to failure...

Chocolate fondue!

Climbing Snow Mountain

Chillin' in a snowbank.

More chocolate fondue.  With eye protection. 

Holiday sweater day at school.

Nathan and his best friend at school