A Snow Day and Then Some

Tuesday was a snow day for Skyler, followed by an 'it's too cold outside' day (the high was nine and wind chills were below zero throughout the day), followed by a 'the school buses won't start' day (perhaps to be know in the future as antifreeze awareness day?), and wrapped up with a 'there's a natural gas shortage' day. Did you catch all of that? That means four straight days of no school. Here are some highlights from our impromptu long break from school.

We played in the snow. It's hard to think that this is the same kid that used to fear snow so much. When we were out running errands yesterday, Skyler even changed his path just so he could walk in the snow! We pointed out to him that when he was Oliver and Jonah's age, he screamed anytime he was too near snow and would go out of his way in an effort to not step into any snow at all.



Oliver surprised me by going down the slide all by himself at the McDonald's play area.

We went to get frozen yogurt. What? That's not your activity of choice when it's 20 degrees outside? A local self-serve yogurt place prices their yogurt according to the high temperature of the day (so long as it's below their normal 41 cents an ounce). Thus, this should have been everyone's activity of choice at least one day this past week. They had a sorbet that was Oliver friendly - such a wonderful surprise! He was so happy sitting on the floor in the corner with his oversized cup of yogurt. It is my hope that by writing it, the image will be forever etched in my mine. Since I didn't have my camera, I am sorry it cannot be forever etched in yours.

My hope for the days off was to make some fun treats and work on Valentine crafts. Unfortunately, even very loosely organized at-home activities and Skyler don't mix well at all. We did get around to decorating some Valentine mailboxes with very few problems, even when you factor in Ollie just dumping all the supplies on the ground.







And, now that we've essentially experienced three weekends in a row, it's back to school tomorrow!