January fun

Here are some more January pictures!

January 7th

Jovie loves her doggie!

January 9th

Trying on her mittens

Jovie liked to try stuff on that day - trying on Daddy's shoes

 January 10th

When Mommy doesn't feel good, Jovie takes advantage!

 January 10th

Getting good at feeding herself

  January 12th

Playing outside on a warm January day!

January 23rd

A cold January day, bundled up to run with Mommy

Maybe too bundled!

 January 26th

Walk to Starbucks on a Saturday afternoon

Helping Mommy in the kitchen 

January 27th

Cute and ready for church!

January 30th

Howie always lurks where Jovie eats!

Play Dates!

A couple days in January, we had great weather!  So we took advantage of it and met at a park near the McGinnis's and had some play dates. One of the perks of working from home is that I can take a bit of time for lunch to do that.

We can fill a whole playground with our kiddos.  These are some of my favorite days, and favorite pictures!

January 14th

Dressed and ready to go!

 Carrying her lunch bag to the car - Jovie loves to help!

 Ready, set, go!

 Like Jessica said, this won't be so adorable when they are teenagers piled into a car...

 Cece joined for her first play date!

 Loves to swing

 PB&J picnic

 January 30th

Love them all a bunch!

Syracuse

In a relatively spontaneous decision, we decided to go to Syracuse for a weekend.  The intent was to play in some snow.  Ironically (and maybe the only week this winter) Syracuse didn't have any.  But we had lots of fun playing with the Rozelles, playing "Just Dance" on the Wii, running, hanging out, eating - even a special date at Pastabilities while Laurel and Molly watched Jovie!

Jovie was a total trooper on the drive up and back!  She ate lots of Cheerios, raisins and animal crackers, but didn't cry once on the way up and only cried for about 20 minutes at the end on the way home.  And I can't blame her.  We only stopped once that whole drive (which was about 7 hrs)!  She was absolutely thrilled to see her cousins and Biscuit, as she is enamored with all of them. 

Eating at Cracker Barrel on the way up

 Homemade waffles on Saturday morning (January 19th)

Sweet cousins 

Saturday at Skeneateles

 Enjoying the Skeneateles bakery

 Shopping

 Shenanigans

There was a live dog in one of the window displays.  The girls loved it!

 After shopping a bit, we got to the lake and were greeted with a gorgeous sunset!

Imitating Annie watching the basketball game

 Sunday morning bottle

 Sunday afternoon at the MOST (Museum of Science and Technology) childrens' museum

So, in these pictures, it looks like Jovie had a blast.  While she did have her moments of fun, she was freaked out most of the time by the loud noises and crazy stuff all around.

 Monday morning, reading with Annie before we go

 This was 10 minutes down the road on the trip home - zonked!

We stopped to meet Natalie and her two girls at Panera in Scranton for lunch.  I failed to get a picture.  :(

It was a great trip, and we were glad we went, one last time before they move to Philadelphia this summer!