by Kenney

The snow man we built as seen from mom's and dad's bedroom window...

Sledding adventures

A few videos of a fun sledding day we had in February. Hopefully you won't think it's too cruel that we forced Norah into the sled. Mike and I had a great time and I think the kids did too, though these videos don't really convince you of that. We walked down the road to the Cornell Orchards. We met a family with a fancy toboggan type sled who convinced Kenney to go on a run with them. We couldn't force him like we did Norah, but he had a fun time the few times he went down in the toboggan.

Winter here in Ithaca

was hard this year. I tried to stay positive and get out and enjoy the snow when we could. It helped that we had a sled so we could use that for some fun. It also helped to have friends that enjoy playing in the snow. We visited Margaret, Jenny and Daniel a couple of times a week during snowy weeks for outside play. Here are some pictures of the field behind our house during a particular snowy but SUNNY week. The fresh snow looked so desolate and alien planet like. While Norah slept one afternoon Kenney and I invented a few new games out in the snow. We did snow angels in the crunchy snow, stepped out a message for dad to see when he came home later that day and scooted chunks of snow across the icy covered snow until they broke. We had a good time and it was so nice to see the sun.

by Kenney

Kenney recently took over taking pictures with our old point and shoot. It still works pretty well but Mike and I rarely take a picture with it anymore so I thought it would be ok for him to have some fun with it. I recently downloaded the images (sometimes 30 from one day). Mike and I laughed together last night when we went through them together and decided it would be fun to share some of them here.

Here's his little bed all made and everything. It's good for me to reflect right now on the struggle we had to get him to stay in that bad a couple of years ago. I have been struggling with Norah at bed time recently so it helps to remember that we'll get through it just like we did with Kenney.

When Dad's away

we have pita pizza for dinner. We had a lot of pizza in January. This meal was at least a little more balanced than usual and I even got Kenney to eat salad.

Utah

Norah on the plane to Utah with her peanuts.

cardboard kitchen

The kids got veggies and sandwich making stuff for Christmas and I wanted to make a kitchen to go with them. I saw a design idea in the Family Fun magazine but I just never got around to following through with it. One day I just put all the boxes from our Christmas spoiling together. The result, fantastic imaginative play.