Daily Archives: January 27, 2012

No Injuries!!! (or Our First Time on Skates)

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After a much needed quiet, slow day (snow day!) we had dinner then headed out to attempt ice skating! Alan and I have each tried it once before, in high school, many (many!) years ago, but basically it was the first time for all of us! And it was FUN!! By the end of our 40 minute skate Lex was skating(-ish) without the milk crates. They both, we all!, want to go back again!

on the ice

Just getting on the ice.

lex

Smiling Lex

eve

Happy Eve

tired

Eve got tired (it was already past bedtime!) and sat on her milk crates for a break. At one point she sat on the crates and I pushed her around for a bit. That was fun :)

no crates

Lex with no crates. He got brave!

leaving

Leaving the ice. We closed the place down! :)

zamboni

Now for the final act - The Zamboni!!

We begin again…

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Snow day today! Rain/sleet/ice day, really. A perfect day to stay in PJs and start Valentine’s Day cards. Eve has been begging to get out the supplies all week but we’ve been so busy I haven’t let her. Today we spent most of the morning working on cards.

cards

Lots of red and white and hearts and glitter. The Valentine's Day cards have begun!

iimw

Every morning at school Lex does a "Drop in the bucket" sheet (aka Drop Sheets). This week he decided to start making worksheets for Eve as well. He calls them Invisible Ink Marker Worksheets (aka IIMWs). She loves them. They can be so sweet together!

If you’re curious, I just hit Google and found the drop sheets they do, made by Frog Publications. Last month his teacher was sending extra copies home with him for Eve to do because we told her how much Eve liked doing them. This month they have moved on to math and she stopped sending them home. Eve still “does” the completed ones that come home with Lex each week. How did I end up with worksheet loving kids? :)

Sledding

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We went sledding on Monday when the kids had no school. We haven’t done much of it this year, what with the weather being so wacky these days. The kids had a great time and I got to catch up with an old friend. Fun, fun.

little girls

Two litte girls, holding hands up the hill.

old friends

Old friends, together again.

Lex is learning about penguins at school and he and Eve like to play penguins at home. He teaches her what he learns. Here is Eve, pretending to be a penguin slidding on her belly down the hill.

PS. Here’s a post from sledding at their house two years ago. Cute!

PPS. It has been raining off and on ever since that afternoon so I’m glad we got some sledding in when we did! Now we have slushy lakes in the front and back yards and it keeps coming down. If the temps were a few degrees lower we’d have a lot of snow!