Confusing Morning - Winter or Spring?

Well, this morning Wayne told me that I would have to clean off my vehicle because it snowed last night.

I went out to clean off the vehicle and start it. While doing so, I heard spring birds singing. It felt discordant to be cleaning the snow off the van and listening to birds singing.

If I had a choice, I would pick Spring.

Dining at Chuck-E-Cheese

During winter break, we had a small get together at Chuck-E-Cheese. We had lots of fun. We set up a buddy system. K. and Jocelyn hung out together (and they had others along too sometimes).

S. was fantastic and was J.'s buddy. They stayed together and had a great time. I am so glad that my kids get a long!


Here J. is in the tube that you have to climb up to get into.

Snowman/Snowwoman?

On the 19th, S. and J. went outside to make a snowman. They did a great job.



Later when discussing the snowperson, they had a conversation that went something like this:

S. - Mom, do you know what the snowman's name is?

Mom - No. What did you name it?

S. - Susan. It's a girl.

J. No, it's not. It's a boy.

So...whether it's a boy or a girl, I'm just happy that they had fun (and didn't make it obvious which gender they wanted it!).

Snow is Still Here

About a week or so ago, I was talking with my Mom, who lives on the other side of the state. I asked if it snowed there. She said that it had, but that the grass was peeking through the snow. I was astounded as we still have A TON of snow here. I took pictures and had to put them up, lest anyone think that we are snow-free.

The first picture is standing on the other side of the road so that you can see the huge mound of snow at the edge of the driveway.

When it melts, it has nowhere to go and so it looks like this:

This was taken 2 weeks ago looking out from our driveway. Currently it is frozen with a layer of snow on top.

Last month I went on a field trip with J. to a science/technology museum. Here J. is striking the bell.

J. in a canoe.



After the kids got to see lots of fun things, they did a demonstration that included animals. Here J. is touching a turtle.



J. touching a gecko.


His favorite was the snake. Unfortunately, you would never get that from looking at the pic., so I didn't include it.


This is an animal that was seen in a habitat, not during the presentation.

We had lots of fun and I absolutely LOVE going on field trips with my kids.

Outside Fun

In January, (and yes, I know that it is late February!) Jocelyn and Megan came up to play with my kids [and of course Wendy and I got to spend time together too :) ].

Here are the kids before they went out to play (Megan didn't go out - hee-hee!)

Here the 4 kids are making snow angels!

Wendy, Megan and I stayed inside (well, technically I went outside, but only to help and to take pictures!). We had fun too - where it was nice and warm!

Homemade French Fries

When I was a kid, occasionally we would have homemade french fries on a Sunday after church. A few weeks ago we did the same thing. They were a huge hit. I did explain that they aren't healthy and we wouldn't do this very often, but they were sure yummy!