Snowed In and Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree

Ok, you got me.  We definitely were not snowed in.  But we were supposed to be.  Rather, we were supposed to get 6 inches of snow, which around these parts probably would have canceled school for two days and made travel a little dicey.  Instead, we got a few inches, school was called of at 9:15pm the night before (when there was less than an inch on the ground), and we made it out the door at five til ten the next morning to go to gymnastics as planned.

It was pretty snow.  I wish we would have gotten more, but I'd also be lying if I said I could take a whole lot more winter this year.  Ordinarily, yes!  Bring it on.  But bundling the kids up is starting to wear me out.

During nap time I snuck out and snapped a few pictures...my hands were way too cold to mess with the settings on my camera, and so the pictures turned out super gray.  Bummer.

We've been trying really hard to fight off a cold around here.  Jack's been sick all week, and Eric seems to have caught the worst of it at our house.  Nat and Ben both have a bit of a cough and Natalie a stuffy nose.  So, instead of playing in the snow, we watched from inside.  And ate popsicles and homemade chicken noodle soup.

This girl is doing awesome at potty training! 

 Averaging only about 1 accident per day for the past week.  

Because Nat's been a little under the weather, the past two days she has napped really early, which has given me some mama and Ben time that we normally wouldn't have.  This morning, he watched me change sheets on all the beds.  A stray cleaning rag ended up with the sheets and when I tossed it aside to put the sheet on the bed, the rag landed right on Ben's head.  He thought it was hilarious.  I folded it up so he could see and I about fell over laughing.  He looked like George Washington in the powdered wig.  Or...did you ever play that game in the pool as a kid where you came up from under water with your hair in front of your face, then flipped it backwards to create the powdered wig look?  Well...that was Ben.  He totally rocked it.

(this got out of order...)