Stirring - 45/365

I just love his hands.  This is Thomas doing his favorite thing.  The spoon is a handcrafted wooden one I bought especially for him over the summer when his cooking phase was first really beginning to take hold.  I didn't give it to him then, thinking it was a bit silly to waste a handmade wooden spoon on a baby!  Gave it to him recently when I realized the cooking phase was only getting stronger.  He loves it.

Strip 44/365

At bathtime, the boys go from this:

to this:

in record time!

Hug - 43/365

This picture is terrible, and probably understandable only to me, but I love it.  This is what they do now when I tell them to "give your brother a hug".  That's Thomas, lying on Sam's lap with his arms around him.  They do hug slightly more traditionally, too, but this is just so, so them.

Sick Boy 42/365

The boys have both been sick along with me, and while Sam is mostly recovered, Tom was still pretty runny-nosed and cranky today.  They were playing in my craft room and he laid down on a blanket, pulled his baby blanket over himself and closed his eyes, looking all pathetic.  Then I grabbed my camera, his eye cracked open and he smiled around his binkie.  Little sweetheart.

Lamp - 41/365

I few years ago, Chris and I asked a potter I've known for years, to make us a pair of lamps for our living room.  We were so excited to go buy them when they were complete.  Then we had the boys and Chris gave it a 50/50 shot that they'd make it through their childhoods.  Looks like today, he won that bet.  Thank goodness, the boys were both fine.  The bulb didn't even break.  I was upset when it happened, but then I looked at the boys, and it's really such small potatoes in the grand scheme of things.  I thought I would document it to remind myself of that the next time they break something!

Towelboys - 40/365

Still not feeling quite up to par, but I managed to grab this shot after the boys' second bath.  Yeah.  The one that followed the "pooping in the tub" bath.  Because I definitely wanted to deal with that this evening.

Lace - 39/365

We had another light snow this morning, the beautiful kind that leaves the trees coated with snow.  I snapped just a couple of our back woods.  And those were the only pictures I took all day. I've been sick with a bad cold, fever, chills, ickiness, the whole she-bang, and when Chris left for the office I was reminded how mothers do not get sick days.