January Lessons

I have so many pictures from January that I decided to pick some and try to sum up most of the month in one post.  So here are the lessons learned in January at the Jensen house.  

Lesson 1:  Getting a good picture of two members of the household is very difficult, sometimes two members have to be trapped to even get a picture together at all. (Please try to ignore the nose nastiness, we had a lot of January illness).

Lesson 2: Toddlers can produce pencils out of nowhere.  I left them alone for a few minutes and I could hear them laughing and having a great time.  When I discovered the damage to the wall (and all the way across the windowsill) they had moved on to some other activity.  I can not figure out where they got the pencil and I have NO IDEA where the pencil is now!  It has been a few weeks and I am still just hoping that I find it before they do.
Lesson 3: Sick kids can fall asleep anywhere.  Both Jacob and Claire were sick a few weeks ago (of course they had to stagger it by 5 days so it could last a full 2 weeks) but they were both just so exhausted and had really high fevers.  My kids NEVER fall asleep anywhere but a crib, pack-n-play, or occasionally a carseat, but they were just so tired.  Jacob curled up and fell asleep in his toddler rocker with his bear (he spent about 3 days in that chair and always had his bear).  Shortly after this picture was taken I moved him to a bed.
Claire woke up early one morning and we brought her in our room to let her play next to our bed and she fell asleep on our floor under a pillow.  She slept there for over an hour.
Lesson 4:  Kids pick-up on the funniest things!  Jacob sometimes leans on his hand and rests his elbow on the table (or high-chair) while he tells us stories (streams of nonsense).  Both of our kids have also started playing 'night-night', a game where they lay down while yelling "nigh-nigh" and then they make snoring noises, then they pop-up and scream "WAAY AH!" (wake-up).  The whole process then begins all over.  

Here Jacob is playing his Night-night game.  The other night he woke up screaming and I went in to find him with his elbow stuck in his sleeve and his hand up by his chest, so I fixed it then he just threw himself down and yelled "nigh-nigh" and started making snoring sounds, so I just went back to bed.  It was actually really hilarious!