The lost Blizzard post

On my last post, I mentioned that we got hit with snow and would be receiving more!  Well, mother nature delivered as promise on 2/10 and 2/11/10 (Wed and Thu).  The blizzard put a halt to everything...airports, schools, and businesses.  Sure the kids loved it but the parents suffered severe cabin fever.  Our employers even closed the offices.  This hasn't happened since 1994.  So everyone who had contact with the outside world was talking about the great Blizzard of 2010. 

Sebastian and Elizabeth window peeping.

As I was watching Michael and the neighbor across the street from the garage, I was creating this dialogue in my head:

"My snowblower is bigger than your snowblower."

or

"My snow pile is bigger than your snow pile."

All kidding aside, poor Michael was outside both days for 2-3 hours snowblowing and pushing all that snow around.

The kids making ice benches.

Sebastian said this is what an ostrich would look like in the snow.

Giving sister a big boost.

Measuring the snow depth on the back deck and where Ava would stand up in the snow.

Miss smarty pants

Did I mention that Ava is very independent?  After she goes potty, she wants to put her pants on.  The problem is, she still doesn't know the pockets go in the front.  Maybe that's why she falls down all the time because she's walking backwards??  LOL.

Snow bound weekend

We've been hit twice with snow in the first week of February. We were bombarded with snow late Friday night and Saturday morning. We are expecting MORE snow on Tuesday night. At least another foot!

Pictures taken from the garage.  Thank goodness we have a snow blower!  I'm sure Michael was thankful too.  :-P

Uh Dad....you missed a spot.

I spent the entire weekend drying snow suits and mopping the hallway floor. At least the kids had a blast.  Well, some more than others.  Ava didn't stay out very long because the snow went past her knees and she couldn't walk in the snow very well.  She wouldn't stay on the paths Daddy had shoveled out with the snow blower.  Every time Ava got stuck in the snow, she wanted somebody to come and save her. 

It just too cold outside for Mommy (temperature outside got down to 20 degrees).  So she sat in the dining room and watched the kids in the back.  Of course Sebastian decided to use me and the window as target practice.

Sebastian using a baseball bat to dig out a tunnel in the deepest part of the snow.  The snow was too light and powdery to make a tunnel or cave. 

Now you see him....

Now you don't!

The human snow cone machine.

The observant pupil

This morning I was helping Sebastian prepare for his spelling test today. Ava was watching me recite the spelling words from cut up pieces of paper and Sebastian spelled and wrote the words down on his practice sheet. After we finished, she picked up a pencil and wanted to take the spelling test also. She even told me to read the words out loud to her just like I did with Sebastian.  Of course it was hard to grade her "chicken scratch" on the paper.   :-D

Going shopping

Since Ava couldn't bring Marley in the car this morning, she decided to bring her babies to go shopping at Walmart.  She even had a little shopping basket in her hands.  I think she thought it was Saturday and Mommy usually does all her errands on the weekends.  I don't know where she got the idea that I was going shopping though   ;-)

Here she is singing and clapping to her baby.  She hasn't reached the age yet where she develops character playing and start to name her dolls.  To me, that seems a little spooky.  I don't remember naming my stuff animals, barbie dolls and baby dolls when I was little.  I do remember dressing my cat up in doll clothes/hat and putting the cat in the baby buggy. 

Last bite

The kids and I dined out in the middle of the week because I had an errand to run after work.  I made the kids share a dessert because it was getting late and I didn't want them to have too much sugar before bedtime.  To my pleasant surprise, they were sharing the oreo ice cream dessert peacefully.

That is until Sebastian noticed that Ava was keeping up with her share.  He sat up and started gulping as fast as he could.

After a few gulps, Sebastian decided he was getting full and put up the white flag.  Meanwhile,  Ava wasn't going to let anything go to waste.  She pulled the straw out of her drink cup and slurped every last bit up.  Ahhh....sibling rivalry      :-O

Little bruiser

Last night Ava was running down the hallway to follow me into the laundry room.  Sebastian's electric scooter was in the hallway charging and Ava thought she had clearance of the handlebars.  Of course my little darling has a habit of tripping, falling and bumping into things.  This is why I signed her up for gymnastics and tumbling classes.   I thought the tumbling class would help her with her eye/hand/feet coordination.  Her last Kindermusic class was last weekend.  Of course, the bad Mommy that I am, she came into the laundry room wimpering.  I didn't actually see the collision and I just thought she was being her usual self in the evening (tired).  Then I saw her "owie" in the kitchen.  I felt like a heel.