Snow Day

Another snow day today, and I was happy to have a little extra time to get some things done. Although, someone needs to tell Quinn that you are supposed to SLEEP IN when it is a snow day... he gets up earlier than usual every time we have one. Oh well. The kids had fun watching some movies, finishing up some projects, and playing outside. Avery and I built a nice snow girl, while Quinn and Kaleigh were busy building a "fort" under the big pine tree in the front yard. Lennie even got a little time outside today, and had fun chasing snow balls that were thrown for him. When I came in, he sat right at the window watching the kids, I had to get a picture. Now everyone is in, and it's time for some hot chocolate.

Presidents Day Weekend

So we are wrapping up Presidents Day weekend, and it was a weekend that went as planned and a little off the cuff. We went sledding on Friday, minus Avery who was feeling under the weather, and since she wasn't able to go with us Friday we made another sledding play date for today and she got to join us, along with Ella, Soph, Lu and Auntie Em who also was not feeling very good on Friday.

Saturday there was basketball for Quinn in the morning, and he was so proud that he got a "Christ-like Star" after the game. The program he is in awards stars after each game for effort, sportsmanship, best offense, best defense and most Christ like. The league pairs kids to a man on man defense, and they stay with the same person throughout the game for the most part. He was "assigned" to a little boy who is autistic, and not that he knew it, but he gave him the "space" he needed and the boy scored his first basket. Quinns coach was really happy that he was able to help the other boy feel special, so he got the Christ like star, and boy was he proud, even though I don't think he really gave the boy the space on purpose. He is really improving and it is fun to see him grow from game to game.

Sunday we went to church, had some lunch, ran some errands and the kids and Scott watched an original Star Wars marathon. I took a nap! It was a pretty nice Valentines day, very very low key, but nice.

Today we finished up our Presidents day weekend with another sledding trip, then some homework, reading and math for Avery, and work on Quinn's science fair project. He decided after going through a couple of choices that he would try and find out how much water is in an orange. Lucky for us, Grammy had some oranges that she was trying to get rid of so we headed there to start the scientific process. He is really into it, working hard at all of the parts of the process. He weighed the orange before we started, then we cut it up, put it in the oven to dry and he has been weighing it every hour and calculating how much water loss it has had. He has passed the mark that he had hypothesized and now we are waiting for the rest of the drying to occur to find out the final result.

So tomorrow is back to the routine and busy busy busy!