Snow Fun!

It's finally warm enough to play in the snow. You give a Minnesotan weeks of below zero to single digit temps and when it is in the 20's it feels like spring. Since I didn't get to experience snow as a kid, I'm all for playing outside. Of course there is the usual snow man, dig a tunnel in the snow, and the convince your old mom to pull you around the house several times on a sled. But our favorite snow tools are spray bottles with water and food coloring, snow "brick" makers (rectangles with a handle for a few bucks at Menards), and all of our sand castle tools.

Cute Things Ellie's Been Saying Lately

Even though Ellie is causing great sleep deprivation in our family, she has made me smile a lot lately with her cuteness. Here's a few things I wanted to jot down before I forgot:

1) She discovered her heartbeat. With her hand over her heart she came to me wide eyed and said, "There's a bouncing ball in there!"

2)Sometimes I'm so concerned about getting the girls to go to the bathroom before we go somewhere that I forget to go myself. We got back from an errand and I ran inside to go potty. Ellie is standing in the doorway and says, "Wow, you made 100 pee pees."

3) She's really into orange tic tacs lately. Yesterday, holding out her hand, she says, "Please put 3 tic tacs in my sweet little hand. Hmm? Yes? You want to give me some?"

4) She caught me in my bra the other day and said, "Oh, you put your boobies on."

There was a few more lately, I can't recall. Nate, you think of any? If we do, I'll add them to the list.

Satan Tempts Jesus?

This cracked me up. This is what Elyana brought from Sunday School this weekend. She was very proud of it. Pointing to the Asian mommy, she says, "That's you."

What does seatbelt safety and safely crossing the street have to do with Satan tempting Jesus?

The Soda Box

Ellie wanted a "window" in the box so I did and the box became a robot space helmet.




Then it became a rocket ship for bear. What will the soda box become next? Why did we buy them toys at Christmas?!



PS, I guess Mikayla had a similar idea when she was Ellie's age:

My Creative Girls

Below is a picture of Mikayla napping with her "kids." She's been into playing mommy or teacher lately with her stuffed animals. Brings back memories. I also liked to play library with mine.



Below is Ellie's new "hat." Yes, it's a soda box. If we painted it black, it would make a great Abe Lincoln hat. Put a few mirrors inside and you have a cool spy scope. : )

Yeah Mikayla!

I was doing my Thursday volunteering in Kayla's class when her teacher asked me if I was coming to the school assembly this afternoon. Then I learned that Kayla was getting the personal achievement award for her class this quarter. Her teacher said that she's greatly improved with her reading and is really participating in class. So we went back to school for the assembly. Kayla was surprised (they don't tell the kids, it is a surprise who's won the awards). I'm bummed with the quality of my camera, but at least you can tell who it is... In the last picture, Ellie snuck over to give Kayla a big hug. With Mikayla's other arm, she's raising her achievement certificate in the air.

Easter Island Statue

The girls love this statue in the movie The Night at the Museum. On the route to take Kayla to school someone made this huge snow sculpture. It's not a very good picture, but the scultpure has great details on it. To learn more about the real statue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island