Sledding Fun

As you can see from the videos below, the kids—and Bryant—had a great time perfecting their sledding skills this winter.  It didn’t hurt that the Winter Olympics (think bobsleigh and luge) were running at the same time.  Hope everyone appreciates the sled-cam action: it wasn’t easy to produce!

 

Valentine's Day 2014

We're getting accustomed to school projects.  This week's assignment was to construct a container for Valentine's Day cards.  Inspired by one of his new favorite movies, Henry decided to make a minion container.  Elise found some examples online and the rest was from our imagination.  As you can see, the final result wasn't half bad.

Snow Days

At some point we lost count of how many delayed starts/snow days we’ve had this winter.  Suffice to say it was many—way too many.  The first 2-3 snow days are always fun: lazy mornings by the fire and afternoons playing outside.  After that, the shoveling, bored children and missed work grows tiresome.  The biggest challenge is keeping the kids occupied.  There’s always TV, but after a while, even that has diminishing returns.  After the first few snowfalls, Bryant ordered some plastic sleds from Amazon.  A park around the corner has a mid-sized hill that is perfect for junior sledding.  After one particularly icy storm, we even sledded down our street (see below).  When we weren’t romping in the snow, we passed the time playing board games (Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders and Hedbanz are popular in our house), baking (see Snow Day Baking) and enjoying happy hours with our neighbors (whose families were similarly stir crazy).  So far, no make-up days have been ordered, but if we keep up at the current pace, the kids made be looking at a shortened spring break or summer vacation.