March

Once a year we make sugar cookies. We only do it once a year because it takes forever, but it is a ton of fun. We usually do it in three phases.
Phase 1: Make the dough, cut out the cookies, cook the cookies, and snitch along the way.
Phase 2: Make the frosting and mix in the food coloring, and snitch along the way.
Phase 3: Frost the cookies and snitch along the way.
The following picture is at the tail end of phase 3. Nathan and Clara had a blast.

Daddy and the kids love playing pirates. We turn on pirate music and fight pirates, or are pirates ourselves. Those hats serve as both pirate hats and good sailor hats. Captain Nathan does a fine job leading our voyages.

Grandma Boren has gotten our kids hooked on the Mercy Watson books by Kate DiCamillo. Mercy Watson is a "porcine wonder" pig that lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson. Mercy Watson loves toast with a great deal of butter. Consequently, our kids now love toast with a great deal of butter (Actually we use margarine because it's a lot cheaper.).

This picture is from about a month and a half ago when the cousins were up for Aunt Mel's play. The Chase girls had to make sure to train Nathan in the finer ways of domesticity.