Christmas Recap - After Christmas Fun

For New Year's Eve, we decided to have a quiet evening, just our family.  We got some fun stuff for dinner and as a special treat, let the kids have whatever color milk they wanted (I know, we are pretty crazy!).  Cameron asked for blue milk, Leah for purple milk.  Both of them were amazed when they actually got the color that they asked for.  Cameron spent the rest of the night asking how did Mama make his milk blue.  After Leah went to bed, Cam got a special treat of playing games with Mama and Daddy.  After he went to bed, Tim and I watched a movie and watched the ball drop.  Not our most exciting New Year's, but we enjoyed it.

We decided to take advantage of New Year's weekend and get some stuff done around the house, including getting rid of our Christmas tree.  Since we have a fire pit in the back yard, we just hacked up the tree and dragged it back there to be burned in the spring time.  The tree without most of its branches looked pretty funny!  It works great for getting it out of the house without making a total mess.

Cameron and Leah having a blast in Cam's explorer tent.  Cameron couldn't be bothered to look at the camera because he was too busy playing with the lantern.

Cameron has a book of science experiments.  We usually just read experiments as bedtime stories (wow, that sounded really nerdy as I typed it!) and always mean to try them, but never get around to it.  New Year's weekend we figured we would give a couple a try.  One of the experiments that Cam has really been wanting to do was to make a volcano.

Leah helping to add some baking soda

Cameron is excited to actually be doing an experiment, instead of just reading about it.

Adding the mixture

Our blue volcano!  Not quite the huge explosion we were going for, but the kids thought it was pretty cool.

We also did balloon races (with balloons taped to straws, racing along strings).  After the races, Tim asked Cameron to pop the balloon while Tim took a picture.  He was hoping to capture the balloon popping on a picture.

It didn't work, but we did get Cameron making this silly face

Leah showing off her Patriots outfit.  We made sure to put pigtails in her hair, otherwise she definitely looked like a little boy.

It was a fun weekend!