The wonderful thing about aunts and uncles

... is that aunts and uncles are wonderful things! This post is dedicated to Aunt Tanya, Uncle Aaron, and Uncle Bud. Misha and Sebastian are lucky to have such great aunts/uncles who so willingly dedicate their time to play with their nephews.

Tanya and Misha work on the rain forest poster.

Aaron receives a slobbery kiss from Sebastian.

Bud rocks Sebastian to sleep.


Misha helps Tanya add eyes and beaks to our famous hoot-owl cookies.

Aaron and Sebastian explore the remote control.

Tanya gives Misha a ride during a brief outing for a bit of sledding.

Tanya positions Misha for take-off on a baby snow pile.

We nominated Bud to take Misha down the mountain, which is actually not a mountain at all but a huge snow pile in a parking lot. As you can tell from this video, Misha was ready to go inside afterward!




Bud poses with a huge and beautifully snowy conifer. You don't see that in Texas!

Sebastian in his penguin jammas.

A new way to play: Misha and Bud play air hockey on synced iPod Touches.

More ice skating fun! This time we brought along Grandma Kate, Tanya, and Bud.

Presenting Grandma Kate: Once a skater, always a skater!

Tanya on ice.

Josh, Grandma Kate, Bud, and Tanya stop to say cheese.

We used up lots of energy speed skating and playing freeze tag. Here go Tanya and Misha in a race!




Aaron joined us afterward at Grandma and Grandpa's house. We recharged with snacks, including Misha's favorite: Grandma's stove-popped popcorn!