Baby it's Cold Outside!

Well I can thank Barry Manilow for the title of this blog entry. His version of the above is one of my favorite Christmas songs, my favorite being Silver Bells. So we woke up on this our anniversary morning to a big surprise outside! 6 years ago today it was a beautiful autumn day. And today, I didn't know whether to plug in our electric window pumpkin or play Christmas music in anticipation...

Jack was in heaven as he's been walking around in his winter gloves for days now anyway. He was so excited to put on his 2T (and too small) snowsuit to go out and throw a few snowballs. Halle was pretty bummed that she didn't have a snowsuit. So sad.

And of course since it's our anniversay, I was not cooking. And since it's Sunday, we didn't want to go out. So we ended up resorting to cocoa, marshmallows and peanut butter toast for dinner. What a good mom am I! Halle has now added the word "cocoa" to her vocabulary. She decided she liked it, even though she said, "Uh-uh" the first couple times I offered it to her. I think she liked the dipping part the best.

And Jack, once again, was in heaven as he drank the whole cup of hot chocolate and ate several marshmallows - no toast. Needless to say, we paid for this fun meal choice all night as he jumped from couch to couch, and on me, while we watched Iron Man (the best movie of the year!). I kept telling him not to jump on Mommy because I was a delicate flower. He thought that was pretty funny and giggled all evening while repeating the word "delicate" thinking he was pretty smart.