Snow

 

Building a snow fort, the finished fort, the demolished fort.

 

Eve in the snow. She wasn’t too sure about whether being in the snow was ok or not.

The Polar Express

Nate’s class watched the Polar Express movie at school last Friday and they got to wear their pajamas and bring a pillow and blanket to school. Nate was so excited to wear his jammies to school! Ellie also wanted in on the excitement and put on jammies to wear to drop off Nate at school. Even Daddy wore his jammies and slippers to drop Nate off at school. When Nate got off the bus he had grown reindeer antlers and a red nose!

Sweet

Nate and Ellie get to stay in Flagstaff with Oma and Opa next week and Nate wanted to know if baby Eve was also going to stay. We said no she wasn’t going to stay. You could see his brain working and he came up with this “They sell sweet milk at the store for baby Eve so she can stay too.” He really likes his baby sister.

Continuing a Tradition

My (Mandy) mom always made these quick sugar cookies for my teachers in elementary school. We made some for Nate’s teacher. The kids loved decorating them with sprinkles.

Eve at 2 months

As of Wednesday Eve is 23" tall & 11lbs 2oz!

Nate’s 6th Birthday

We celebrated Nate’s birthday with family on Saturday after he and Ellie went to the train park with Oma and Opa.

            

Nate’s teacher allows you to bring a treat on your child’s birthday. Nate wanted peanut butter cookies and chocolate chip cookies. So at the end of the day Nate got some special birthday time. The teacher has the birthday kid make a crown that they wear all day. All of Nate’s classmates know Ellie so she fit right in. Nate got to pass out the treats. Nate announced that after everyone was done with their cookies that everyone could line up to see Eve. All the kids enjoyed looking at her.

Our birthday prince.

Right after school we went to Peter Piper Pizza. They had plenty of time to play and we practically had the place to ourselves until about 5.

 

Nate wanted the cinnamon pizza as his birthday cake.

We went back home to open some presents.

We then headed out to look at Christmas lights. The pictures are from a display that is timed to music and has bubble and snow-making machines. The kids loved watching it and dancing in the snow.

Snuggie

Ellie talks a lot about how she wants a Snuggie and gets very excited whenever she sees one in the store or on TV. At my (Mandy) work white elephant exchange I stole the lovely leopard Snuggie rather than unwrap some unknown treasure. Ellie was very excited when she saw the box!

Bathtub

After a lot of hard work the bathtub is in.

 

The kids had fun looking through the drain hole into the downstairs bathroom.

 

Paul’s very fine plumbing job.

Hanging out in the bathtub.

 

Hummingbirds

We have two hummingbirds that have claimed our feeder. They even buzz us when we go out the door. Stormy loves to watch the action.