Quick snapshots before work...

Snow

Tea and scones

Wesley has loved reading the Redwall series and has been intrigued with Badgers and tea and scones. Isabel helped me make Wes's afternoon after school treat. :0

Lessons learned at the rink

Our kids were very excited to go try out new skate guards, winter atire, and to skate as well. Heidi and I took them this past week. Each time we have gone skating they all have improved. Wesley's goal was to skate around the hockey-sized rink 100 times. I think his total was 132 and he figured out he was skating about 2 laps a minute. Kristianna would love to be taking figure skating lessons and she was thrilled to be able to watch a lesson in progress and pick up pointers. Isabel seemed content at first to skate with us and then decided that she would like to do this on her own. She wouldn't let anyone help her or even skate next to her. She wanted us all to leave her be. It is a little hard to leave a shuffling 4-year-old in a crowd and skate away but let me assure you she would have it no other way! It took her 14 minutes to complete a lap and she "skated" 2.5 laps without holding onto the walls or us (of course!). By the time she was finished she was falling asleep as I took off her skates! It was a lesson for me as well in giving growing kids space to accomplish their own goals.

Connector/Main Entry update

Birthday notes

I have so many pictures to post but I need to retell a story before the day ends. It actually is from a few years ago but I thought of it last night on my way to work. When I was working in FL on my birthday, there was a patient who had my first name, my birthday, and delivered her baby on our birthday. It was SO cool! It would have been even cooler had she been my patient, but my friend Steph (who always remembers birthdays) called me in to introduce me to them. There wasn't any cool stories like that this morning at work but I got to tell a brand new baby that he picked a great day to be born! :)

Happy New Year!!

This was a start of a new life for our Christmas tree! It got planted today on the spot where the logs were once stored. The connector floor is taking shape. The kids are using it now instead of going "the LONG way" around. Thanks, Heidi, for braving the cold and getting these pictures for me.