Two Little Hensons

January is off to a great start!  We’re enjoying the days with nice weather by playing outside, going to the zoo and park…and then trying to find fun things to do indoors on the cooler, rainy days.  We celebrated my dad’s birthday last weekend.  Today we went to the eye doctor.  Anna Claire and Charlie are both a little farsighted but it is not bad enough to require glasses.  Anna Claire has an astigmatism but not too bad.  We’ll go back in a year or two. (Whew!  FYI:  2 year olds don’t like having their eyes dilated.) 

 We hope you are having a great 2012 as well!  Thanks for checking in.

p.s. – 1.  I haven’t forgotten about Christmas/December updates….they are coming.  2.  Anna Claire and Charlie are POTTY TRAINED!!  Wahoo!! 🙂

This year Justin, Rebekah, and Gracie couldn’t make it home for Thanksgiving.  Last year my parents went to Texas with them, the year before Justin’s mom visited with them in Texas, and the year before they were just married and on a cruise.  So, we were so excited to be able to travel to NJ to visit.  Let me back up…we were so excited to visit with them in NJ…not travel to NJ. 🙂  It took us FIFTEEN HOURS to get there.  Everyone in America was traveling on I-95 with us.  Anyways, enough of that.  The kids were great.  They read books, colored, sang songs, watched movies, ate, napped, played with toys and stuffed animals, and more!  We had a GREAT thanksgiving meal. 

We played games by the fire. We even celebrated Christmas with them.  Justin will be deployed very soon so Bekah and Gracie will be heading down here for a few weeks.  That’s why we celebrated early.  We went for the first time and cut down a tree.  It was so fun!   One day we went to see Uncle Justin’s plane.  So fun! 🙂  We had a great time.(Oh, and the trip back was only 11 hours. 🙂 )

In October we went to the fair.  We ate yummy food, watched some dancers, visited all the animals (the little ducks sliding in the water were their favorite!), saw the sand sculpture, and even rode the skyline across the fair.  I’m sure the kiddos will be really eager to ride the rides next year.  🙂