SNOW!!

So after breakfast, we played trains and went "camping" again. The kid can't WAIT until our Spring camping trip with the church! After lunch, I did a little laundry and cleaned up a bit, then we went outside and enjoyed the snow!!! It was snowing off and on all morning but by afternoon it was gorgeous. I really wanted to make a snowman, which I always forget is much harder than it looks. Joe called him "mini-me". Caleb reluctantly helped decorate him, but he was much more interested in pelting us with snowballs as we attempted our masterpiece.
Eventually, Joe gave up for awhile and hauled his huge piece around as if he was going to chunk it at Caleb.
Our finished product. Levi was wondering what all the fuss was about. I let him hold some snow, and he didn't even try to eat it. Weird, since Caleb couldn't stop licking it! The album has pics of Levi in the snow. Caleb did try driving his jeep through the snow, which worked for a little while. Eventually, we came in and Joe made homemade hot chocolate. Like Polar Express hot chocolate. Caleb and I then made homemade chocolate chip cookies. I was so proud I let him help with every step and we were both still alive afterward. Then we ate pizza, watched Fly Me to the Moon, and ate WAY too many cookies with milk. Yum. A pretty spectacular day, I'll say.
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Winter weather day #3

We braved the potentially icy roads to drive about 1 mile to our friend Amber's house. We had Joe drive us because I was afraid it would be Caleb played with his friends, Emmy, Amiya and Bubba. Pretty much all he did the entire day was ride on Emmy's indoor ATV, which he was completely thrilled with. Levi also had a blast watching kids run through the living room and back again. Amber and I had a great time using up all our 25,000 words for the day, and our husbands were pleasantly surprised that we didn't have much to say to them for the rest of the night! I even had time to cook a chicken pot pie for dinner. Roads are supposed to be icy still on Friday. Seriously?!?! We didn't have this much of a problem with weather in North Dakota after a blizzard!! Apparently, Texas are against using salt to melt ice. I just feel bad for all the Packers/Steelers fans who came all this way to sit in their hotel rooms. Bummer...

More winter weather days...

Another day of creative fun at home!! We spent the morning going camping by the fireplace. While we were gathering our camp food, Caleb announced that his fish must have leprosy, because it had a gold coin in its mouth.... at least the fish did have spots?!?

From train books of bible

Second half of the morning we spent redesigning the train track, which would be much easier if Caleb didn't think it was a contest to see who could get the most pieces put down as quickly as possible. But at least he has a good time. Levi has a great time supervising all the chaos.

From train books of bible

Caleb was invited over to the neighbor's house this afternoon and had a great time. Of all the days, today he wanted ice cream for dessert... on the coldest day of the year. And when he came home today, he requested a snowflake cookie for dessert, as if we have those lying around. Luckily, I had some break and bake sugar cookies, so I made a snowflake out of two cookies and he got to ice and sprinkle it, which was again his favorite thing of the day!
Tonight we had our own little devotional since worship was canceled at the building. We sang all his favorites, read a Bible story, and said prayers. Caleb keeps praying for the ice to get cleaned up so Mommy can go back to work and make money so we can buy the things we need. By "need", he means his most recent requests: a toy from Cracker Barrel and two lizards from the zoo, which he reminded me that Santa and Granna neglected to bring him. Guess we need to keep working on being grateful instead of greedy

Winter Storm day

We had a winter storm hit on Monday night. So I knew I would have to think of something fun to do with preschool canceled. So we had some neighbor friends come play (inside!) for the entire afternoon. We made sugar cookies complete with icing and sprinkles, which Caleb later said was the best part of the day. We had a great time, but there is a reason I will have no more than 4 kids (on purpose)!! We took Levi outside for just a minute to say he his first "snow" experience. He was slightly less than thrilled.

It snowed in Texas

It decided to snow here in March, so Caleb got his first experience playing in the cold, white stuff. He wasn't too thrilled, but we thought it was pretty funny.