January Adventures

January was such a fun month for us Perkinses. I've done a terrible job documenting it though, so here's a very brief overview of all our merry making.

For New Year's Eve we decided to have a Lord of the Rings themed bash, complete with elvin robes and cool staffs. That was about as far as we carried the theme though. Dressed as hobbits and elves, we noshed on homemade buffalo wings, watched a bunch of episodes of Heroes and played uncountable rounds of guitar hero. Authentic, no, but very fun!


Later in the month, we took the kids to a rock 'n roll show at the Vera Project in Seattle. It is a super cool place right underneath the Space Needle. We saw Casper Baby Pants (Caspar Babypants is also known as Chris Ballew, lead singer of the rock and roll band The Presidents of the United States of America. ) His kid brand of music was so adorable and endearing. You can check it out at http://babypantsmusic.com/ . The Not Its! played as well. Both Mikey & Natty couldn't contain themselves once the Not Its! began playing. They were both up shaking their tushies like mad men (that's supposing that mad men shake their bottoms quite vigorously). It was a blast. Nothing is more enjoyable than watching a pit of three year olds bounce around to super cute music.

Then, our crowning January adventure--a trip to a real, live Renaissance Faire. Wow. That's all I can say. Just, wow. There were tons of people totally dressed up in real, honest-t0-goodness chain mail and armor. Oh, and they were bashing each other with crazy faux swords in some sort of contest to win the "crown." Also, there were fire breathing chicks (which all the guys around me described as "hot." Ha, ha. Very funny, medieval dudes. You are both clever and well dressed...) It was so incredibly awesome. Mikey even got to wear his Lord of the Rings cloak from earlier in the month!
Needless to say, January was a blast. Now we'll have to come up with some serious fun if we want to keep February from being a huge let down!