Paperwhites and playtimes

The two subjects are unrelated...

I'm making one blog post out of it, however...

So I kept reading about these paperwhite flowers everywhere. Plant them! And you will smile in January! So, when I saw a complete kit for the plant at Trader Joe's in December, I decided to give it a try. I don't know anything else except that I planted the bulb in the pot it came with (dirt included, just add water) when we came back home after New Years and for two weeks I watched this bulb sprout up into a crazy tall, scented white flower! And it did make my January self smile to see the flower in the cold of winter... So, I just thought I'd share.



Still in January, keeping ourselves occupied on the cold winter nights without Ross home, we came up with creative ways to play or entertain ourselves. Here's Max studying the atlas. He loves maps and atlas books. He took an old states puzzle we have and turned his atlas three dimensional!





And Zoey loves the show American Pickers on the History Channel. Ross started her watching it and she recorded them all to watch when he got back home. She couldn't wait, so she watched them by herself first so that she could share the best ones with him. She made a little poster for the show!