January Fun

This has been an odd January.  We have gone from 60s to snow, 50s to freezing rain.  We have not had any decent snows yet though.  I hope we at least get one good snow this year.  The girls would be so excited.  The other week we had a dusting which caused me to have an hour and half drive to work instead of a 17 minute drive (very icy).  They were so excited to play in it.  This weekend started off with freezing rain for the Friday drive home.  Our driveway and walkway were like ice skating rinks. I did still take the girls up to their school though for movie night.  It was Monsters Inc.  I think Madeleine liked it but Hadley was too busy snacking and visiting with her friends to really watch much.  This morning we had Madeleine's ice skating lesson.  I took Hadley ice skating while Madeleine had her class.  That mostly consisted of Hadley holding onto a bucket and me holding onto Hadley and pushing her and the bucket around.  At least I got some exercise.  Next weekend Hadley starts indoor soccer so our Saturday mornings are going to be busy!

Enjoying the snow.   Madeleine's favorite thing was going down the slide in the back.  She must have slid 5 ft in the snow past the slide.

They also enjoyed making snow angels which quickly changed to making snow Mary and snow Jesus.

More snow fun.. so far this was our big snow of the year..

It was really cold!

Getting the gear on and off took a lot of time

Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder, aka, Hadley and Thomas.  In the last few weeks Thomas has played the role of Flynn Ryder, Jesus, Joseph, the King, the Prince and Flounder.

Thomas loves to sit up and play now.

Hadley brought home the class pet this weekend.  This is Elephant meeting Thomas.  Now we have to write a story about Elephant's adventures at our house.

Thomas' new toy.  We have never had one of these but Thomas loves to bounce.  He had so much fun today in this.

Hadley and me ice skating.   She didn't want to stop but my back certainly did.