We found out that Ada loves doughnuts (especially if they have chocolate on them!). She took her milk and wiggled her way onto one of the kitchen table chairs and grabbed hold of a doughnut. After she took a bite she was hooked and she wouldn't let it go or put it down! Doesn't she look so guilty, happy, but yet still so cute?
Ada and Benjamin love sitting in boxes, totes, and tubs! They will spend a long time just sitting in them and playing. They especially love it if we push them around but they are just as happy just sitting in them. They will play all kinds of games and make up all kinds of stories. They are so creative! If only I were so young and flexible!
Benjamin and Ada enjoy playing train tracks (Geo Traxx). They play really well together except when Ada's cute little butt (yep, that's what Benjamin calls it) sits on his train track and he can't get the train to loop around the tracks. Ada likes playing inside the track while Benjamin enjoys racing around the outside of the track. These train tracks have been through everything! T-Rex, teddy bears, and dollies have all come to visit. These two enjoy knocking their visitors off the tracks. Santa gave Benjamin the elevated tracks for Christmas. They are pretty cool and make the train go so fast. Now only if he had a remote controlled train! Maybe next Christmas Santa can bring that if these two are still into playing train tracks! These trains and tracks are two years old already (except the elevated tracks) and have seen countless hours of play and have handled are rough and tough children just fine! Dave and I love watching these two kiddos play together and interact with one another. They are so sweet and so much fun! Plus they are so full of energy that they wear us out!
Benjamin and Ada enjoy playing tricks and games on us (Dave & I). Lately, there favorite is to run and hide (their version of hide and seek) from us. Dave caught these two crawling and hiding underneath Benjamin's bed. Ada didn't have any fears or problems snuggling underneath the bed. At first Benjamin didn't know what to think about somebody else being underneath his bed with him but now we hear him say, "come on Ada, let's go hide". She gets this big smile on her face and away she goes after him. These two are certainly two peas in a pod! 
As promised, here is Ada's scarf. I really love the colors in this scarf and it matched Ada's jacket wonderfully. It's too bad that the zipper broke and would have cost over $ 20 to get it fixed. We decided we could go with just the snaps and no zipper but then the jacket got a hole in it and so we decided to retire her jacket. It's had its use I am sure of it because I picked the jacket up at a rummage sale. Oh, well. We really are not out that much money. Unfortunately, this scarf no longer matches her new jacket but for the time being she will have to be a mismatched child!
The need to create and do something crafty got the better of me the last couple of weeks (ever since that last cold snap) so I decided that I wanted to try crocheting. I bought a skein of yarn and a crochet hook and starting looking things up on-line to see what I needed to do. I figured out how to do a single crochet and apparently I do a decorative pattern. I only take one stitch versus doing the traditional single crochet by taking up both stitches. Benjamin was pretty excited about his scarf until Dave told him that boys don't wear scarves. So now he refuses to wear it outside. He will wear it inside, though, so I think he is forgetting what daddy told him. Thanks a lot daddy! 
