Cold Feet

I noticed E carrying the step stool out of the downstairs bathroom and heading for the stairs...

Me: Ummm, E, where are you going with the step stool?
E: Upstairs. My feet are cold.
Me: But why do you need a step stool. Your slippers are on the floor of your closet.
E: No. Those don't keep my feet warm.
Me: Oh, well then get some socks from your drawer.
E: No. Those don't keep my feet warm.
Me: So then what are you going to get?
E: My sandals!

Oh, yes, of course, I always wear sandals when my feet are cold, don't you?!?!?!
AND, I use the downstairs step stool instead of the one that is just two door away to reach the top of my closet which is most definitely unreachable when you are 3, even with a step stool!

School in the daily

I do my best to incorporate "school" into everyday life. That way, the kids see it as totally normal. (Please don't tell them otherwise.) One thing we do is identify literary elements whenever possible.
The other night I was walking up the stairs with L to take her to bed. E had put several items on the steps to take up when she went to bed. As I stepped over E's items I said, "There is stuff on the steps." I paused and then asked, "What is that?"
D and L immediately responded "Alliteration!"
Well, E was close behind me coming up the steps and when she arrived she commented, "There is alliteration on the steps!"

Gotcha!

D says: Okay, L, name an insect.
L says: An ANTonym.
D says: No. That's grammar!!!

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was very low key for us. Since it was a Sunday this year, the day was already full with church, naps and Awana. So, we just focused on being kind and showing love to each other.

Six Inches and Counting

Amazing...here we are in Texas with six inches of snow and more falling. It has fallen all day and continues still. I still can't believe it!!!

We woke to a white scene...
This is how it looked at 8AM.

Here it is about 2PM and the snow continues still at 8PM.

It only took us one hour (yes, one hour) to get ready to go out in the snow. We are finally bundled and ready to go. Unfortunately, living in Texas, we have no appropriate clothing so we must be creative in our layering.

E catches snowflakes on her tongue.

Our first snowman.

Measuring the snow.

Eating lemonade snow cones made with REAL SNOW!

Stormy loved the snow but wasn't too pleased when I asked her to sit.

Snow bear and baby snow man.

The girls only lasted about 30 minutes and then came inside to wrap up and warm up.

D, on the other hand, lasted about 1 hour, 40 min. He had so much fun. I tried to get a picture of how big the flakes were, but it was super hard to get them to show up. Anyways, they were huge and so beautiful. D and I had fun playing! He outlasted me in the snow!

D is baptized!!

D got baptized today! It was the fulfillment of a prayer prayed for many years. He had accepted Christ over two years ago and when the oppotunity arrived for him to be baptized, he was ready.

P actually got to baptize him!
P had to hold him up becuase he couldn't reach the ground and he kept going under. It was quite funny!

D really wanted his daddy to be the one to baptize him.

Our church does a big celebration for Children Baptisms and each child gets a cake of their own.

Grandma and Grandpa and some of the cousins were able to attend which was super special!!! We were so grateful to them for sacrificing activities in order to attend D's baptism.

Fun with the cousins!

I had to admit how overdue these pictures are. Our Colorado relatives visited us last month and I 'm just now getting the pictures up on the blog! The cousins had never met before so it was great fun watching them interact.

P and his brother enjoyed being together! They are just hams, the two of them!
When the weather finally got warm enough, we ventured out to a park for the kids to play!

Here D is with his uncle and cousin and some random boy who joined the picture!

Once little D warmed up to P, they had fun together!

L had so much so fun feeding little L.

D also took a turn.

We got to babysit little D one night. We put the kids together in the bath and watched them play.

Bathtime was complete with fancy/spikey hairdos!

Little D had a blast!

On the last night, the kids all got to bathe again and this time little L joined in the fun.

Let's jus say that E and Little D did not choose each other as their favorite cousin. Here you can see Little D pouring water on E's back and....

here is E's reaction...not happy!

L loved helping/holding Little L...she is such a mommy!

Ready to return to Colorado, P gets one last opportunity to hold Little L!