Take our children sledding, of course.
We met friends Greg and Scott at Coventry Park at 10am and we had the hill to ourselves for at least a half hour. The kids we rock stars, flying down the hill, rosy cheeked and happy and not a complaint about the cold. We kept warm dragging their little selves back up the hill; the snow was powdery and glittery and very, very slippery.
We celebrated the morning with a walk to Phoenix for hot cocoa, where the picturesque, nigh-Rockwellian perfection of our little group-- sipping warm drinks, clad in snow bibs, by the fire-- was marred only by the fact that our son (recuperating from his first ear infection, poor boy) suddenly hit the wall of exhaustion and became so droopy that Nat went and got the van to pick us up.
A lot of Max and Ruby has been watched today, and between that and an evening trip to Chic-Fil-A (complete with ice cream, of course), he has perked back up considerably.
In other news:
Soup Supper
I believe I waxed poetic on the glories of our January Second Sunday Soup over on my Thirty Days blog... it was a lovely night, quite relaxed despite the fact that we had 7 littles dashing about the house. Babies playing on the living room carpet, preschool set joyfully dumping bins of toys in the playrooms, lots of markers strewn on the floor. Loveliness.
Here are a few pictures.
Sweet sibling moments.
They do happen. Interspersed between the screaming toddler and the boy yelling "No, Ivy!" and the grabbing of toys and kicking each other's chairs and....there are moments like this.
They are beautiful. The children, and the moments.
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| Thanks for the kitchen, Grandpa and Vovo! Jack said with joy, "It EVEN has a refrigerator!" |
Card Games.
The obsession with War continues, and yesterday Nat helped him add Go Fish to his arsenal.
We played a game before breakfast today. Jack asked about it upon snuggling into our bed this morning, and again when I tucked him in tonight: "Mommy, do you think we should play Go Fish in the morning when we wake up? We have to ask Daddy!!! (sits up, I assure him I'LL ask daddy, he needs to lay down to sleep) OK, but you have to ask him in the morning or he'll probably forget. Ask him like this -- "Wanna play Go Fish?" Got it? Put it in your BRAIN, mommy..."
I love our boy.
Yep and Nope
Ivy's two new favorite words. The way she says these things-- its the cutest thing going. That is, unless she's applying "Nope!" to bedtime. Which she's been doing a lot lately, the little pill. But that's another story.
She says "Yep" more like "Dep" with that little nod of her head or her self-satisfied smile. And she says Nope clear as a bell and like she means it. Which she does. Girl knows what she wants down to what size of cookie she'll have, thank you very much. She likes to exchange items she's taken a bite of, for a whole new one. She loves her little tea set and putting tiny things into containers. She prances on her tip-toes, loves her snow boots and enjoys picking out her own clothes AND taking them off. She's a riot and I am pretty in love with her right now, too.
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