Anniversary
Today was our 12th anniversary. We didn’t do anything special, and gave each other wildly mismatched gifts–pretty much a solid fail in both planning and execution. Oh well.. Better luck next year. 🙂 Who wants to sign up for childcare for us in 2015? 🙂 Brian made us a cute “married card” as he called it. I also really liked his penguin picture (wodl wodl == waddle waddle). He liked playing with his mini sandbox today–he hadn’t seen it in awhile so it...
Read MoreMore Snow Days
Have you ever had days that just ran together in one big blur? That’s this week for me. Not only did we have a (fairly pointless) snow day on Tuesday, and another (totally legit) one on Wednesday, we ended up with two more–yes, 4 out of 5 days this week, we were all stuck at home. Brandon and I have some flexibility in our jobs, but we did have to work from home during this time, so we managed it by trading kid-watching shifts every few hours. The kids were as good as one could...
Read MoreStar Wars Operation!
The snow days roll on–today was #3. Things are slushy and muddy outside now, but we did something new and fun indoors today–we played Brian’s new Star Wars Operation game! He received it on his birthday from his buddy Julian, but at the time he said he thought he needed to be 7 years old to play it. But, today he decided he was ready. 😉 It’s a little frustrating, but at least R2-D2 makes his fun noises, rather than just a loud buzzer! Nervous C-3P0 also gets in the...
Read MoreSnow Day!
Well, we may have pooh-poohed the late-arriving snow yesterday, but it’s definitely here today! School was cancelled, so we all stayed home together. The kids were impatient to go and play in the snow, so I let them play with a bowl of it from the porch during breakfast. Once we were all bundled up, we headed outside! Brian was looking forward to making a snowman, and having a snowball fight–but this snow had other ideas! I’d never seen anything like it, practically...
Read MoreThe Long-Awaited Snow!
After a few false starts, the snow is finally here! We’ve had 2-hour delays and after-school activities cancelled a few times this year, but nary a flake until late this evening! School was closed today in anticipation of snowpocalypse–but that ended up being entirely unnecessary. Oh well! I was so busy trying to work, and spend time with Brian when I could look away from the computer, I hardly took any photos today at all! We did build our Lego Creator Family House set today,...
Read MoreBrian’s Wooden Cars
Today, Brian and I finished up some work on his wooden cars! The stickers are a lot of fun (although they don’t adhere as well as we’d like!) Brian is mostly just glad that the cars are dry, the wheels still turn, and he can play with them. 🙂 We also did an early Valentine activity, making some magnets that look like frosted cookies! They started out as a typical foam sticker sort of craft, but painting the whole thing with glue and then dousing it with glitter made things...
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