Tuesday: snow day

Isaac had a snow day today!  I knew it was supposed to snow a lot and he only had half a day, so I was wondering if he'd get one.

It really was a good call; the roads were terrible.

We let Joshua have a snow day too and Ben stayed home with them.

Weekend: cottage

This past weekend we went up to Dad and Pat's cottage.  Nathan and his family were there too, and we had a great time.

It had snowed out, so we ended up spending quite some time outside in the morning.  The kids threw snowballs, 

did some swinging,

cracked as much ice as they could find (carefully),

sledded,

and helped with the fire to burn some sticks.

Oh, they also investigated snow melting on the fire.  The well-packed snow balls melted much slower than I was expecting.

Isaac is really into a book series and spent some time reading.  I was rather surprised, because this is usually not his activity of choice.

The kids watched Lady and the Tramp.

There were also a few Lego sets that came out.  Isaac and Jameson got theirs done pretty quickly, but Evelyn and Joshua worked steadily on theirs both days.

More matching people!

Dad played Azul with Isaac.  Isaac explained most of the rules and did a pretty good job.

Joshua finished his spider lair and so the younger kids played with that for a bit.

It's been a while since I've seen Nathan's family, so it was especially nice to be able to spend some time with them.

Friday: firewalls and schedules

Joshua made a firewall...

He also told me his schedule.  He repeats this on a fairly regular basis.  (It starts on a Tuesday.)

Thursday: stuffed

On the way to the car this morning, Joshua said, "I have a song stuffed in my head."  I can't remember which one was 'stuck' in his head, but it caused Isaac to start singing a bunch of other others.  Joshua kept laughing and saying, "Isaac, you're getting another song stuffed in my head."

Wednesday: snow!

While today wasn't our first snow, it was the first snow that stuck around.  It actually snow/rained throughout the morning, although it never accumulated any more.

We also decorated some cookies.  Isaac really wanted to make one for his teacher, but you can't make just one.

I put 'Boo' on one of the cookies for Joshua.  He was telling Ben about it later, and everytime he talked about it he said, "The cookie with BOO!" and it was pretty cute.

Tuesday: nothing

We have a less busy week this week and I love it.  I don't think we're overly busy even in our busy weeks, but there's nothing 'special' that's waiting for us this week.

I'd like to say that I'm doing things to get caught up with life, but that'd be a joke.

Saturday: Lego League

Today was the expo for Lego League.  It went fine.  There were a few things I would have changed in hindsight (like coaching the kids on the interview process better) but overall everything came together.

They got a trophy and so everyone was happy.

(This was before the main Lego display showed up.)

We got the Legos out for the kids to play with near the beginning because there was a lot of waiting around.  There was still a lot of waiting around after we cleaned up, but it wasn't as much.