Post-holiday joys

After all of the excitement of the holidays (too much to blog now, maybe when I get more energy!), who would have thought the boys could get so excited again? As it turns out, finally getting the slippers they wanted was enough to thrill them. Liam got penguin slippers and Finn got dragon slippers (see picture!). They immediately wanted to put on a play with their slippers, and Finn even wore his to bed. They are quite happy!

Then, to top things off, I was quite indulgent, and not only bought mint chip ice cream for the boys, but also bought cones to eat it in. Finn's ice cream is made with coconut milk, and it's pretty good. To entice the boys to eat dinner, Matt sat down and ate an ice cream cone of his own. Finn watched him with great awe and wonder, and finally said, "but you can't eat the cone, right?" We explained that you can eat the cone, and he wanted to know, "is it soft?" At this point I realized, with a bit of a shock, that Finn had not only never eaten an ice cream cone before, but we had sheltered him so completely that he had not actually even seen one before! Poor child.

Needless to say, he enjoyed it quite thoroughly, as you can see in his picture.