Okay, Our First REAL Snow

We spent a beautiful, sunny February day at Gigi and Papa's house riding tricycles, running, walking Maisie and doing a nature walk with Papa. 

Two days after that, I couldn't contain my excitement for snow!!  I know I was excited about this a few months ago, but that was pathetic.  This was the real deal!

I know their outfits are a little ridiculous...last year's hats, rain boots, and socks for mittens.  I was completely unprepared.  And in case you were wondering, no, cotton socks are not a good substitute for wool mittens.  Their poor little hands were frozen solid.  But they didn't care.  Evan and Carter jumped right in with snow angels.

Davis was enjoying it too...at least during this first round.

On our second venture out, Davis couldn't get into the spirit. 

So, he went back inside, and we threw snow balls at him in the window, which he thought was great :)  I think he is going to be my "hot chocolate by the fire" buddy on future family ski trips!

Evan and Carter wanted me to build them a snowman.  Evan was less than impressed, but it was all I could muster because I didn't have any gloves either! 

I think Maisie is glad that we don't have to deal with an entire winter of this.  I totally agree, but this had to be my best birthday ever!

Valentine Festivities

So, here is what I learned from Valentine's Day 2010:

1) It takes a ton of effort to get three 3 year olds to complete 10 Valentines each.  Davis wanted to tell me how to spell his name on each one letter by letter with a giant jump in between each.  D! (jump) A! (jump) V! (jump) I! (jump) S! (jump).  Evan wanted to put 10,000 stickers on each card.  And Carter was so mesmorized by the Disney Cars that it took him 10 minutes to bring himself to put each on in an envelope.

2) Baking, decorating, and packaging heart cookies for the entire class takes me waaaay longer than I estimate.  But they turned out very cute.  I always volunteer to do this since Carter has the peanut allergy and I would just have to make him something anyway.  But I think daggers flew from my eyes when another mom said "Wow, you must have a lot of free time on your hands." 

3) They still make those same sick chalky hearts with poor print quality.  Yet, they have oddly updated the messages.  Way to know your target audience.

4) Even preschool girls like "bad boys".   Apparently, that same little girl is still smitten. Her mom told me she said, "I like Evan...he's a bad boy!!"  I think he is mostly misunderstood :)

5) I am very lucky to have 4 sweethearts :)