Entries from January 2015 ↓

One of the best parts of playing outside, is coming in for hot cocoa.

A few things Ezri has said of late:

Speaking about Silly Sally who went to town walking backwards and upside down,
A: That’s quite a feat.
e: No, it’s quite some hands!

After one night of my working on a scarf, Ezri found it was heard to say,
“Is that all?” She went on to opine that after more practice with her knitting doll perhaps she could knit and help me move along faster.

It’s Perfect Dough – Perfecto!

Ezri imagining what inanimate objects are dreaming. “The play dome in our backyard dreams of running.”

A: What was your favorite part of the day?
e: Walking backwards with Audrey.
(We went to the zoo. The lemurs were cool, but walking backwards with a friend was awesome!)

Ezri looking out the window of our house first thing in the morning.
me: Whatcha looking at?
her: A beautiful day coming.

I hope it isn’t catching.

Sledding was fun this weekend. We went down that hill over & over. This year Ivan could get himself back up the hill himself and did not need carrying or a sled ride back up. This year was also his first solo run on the sled. Last year he only rode with the grown-ups. Ivan likes wearing Ezri’s frog hat and pretending to be a mutant frog come to destroy the city with a fart gun. Ezri is a mutant monkey come to destroy the city also with a fart gun.

We met up with friends. Sledding with friends is even more fun.

The girls had various ideas of best ways down the hill. Here they are tying the sleds together to make a sled train.

Ezri’s favorite trick to play on grown-ups strikes again.

I love how quickly my kids claimed these college friends of ours as playmates and completely hug-worthy. Kids, you are not wrong these are some high quality folks. Even though we had not seen them for awhile, the kids immediately put them in the treat-as-family category. Not sure if they judge the person’s reaction to them or their parents’ reaction to the visitor. But, they are perceptive. Mike and Erin proved gullible enough to provide piggy back rides. They were introduced to our kinetic sand and made a lot of food to be cut apart by Wasabi’s laser knife. Ezri also “tricked” them into reading her favorite read-aloud. She loves hearing grown-ups say “boo boo butt” and feeling like she’s pulled one over on them.

Reading The Book with No Pictures is so funny that the photos all come out laughter blurry.
Laughter blurry is the best blurry.

Ezri pulled Ivan around the yard in circles. They made Eric and I pull too, but I liked the big sister powered sled.

Just getting her snowball ready to fire.

Pull, Ezri, pull!

I think I know the answer.

Ezri making train noises sitting in one of the painted engines.

One of my favorite trains was the “Molar Express” sponsored by an area dentist.

Just look at those festive dental tools. This was painted by a local high school’s art honor society.

This was Ezri’s favorite train of the dozen or so we saw. We took this photo for Ivan because it was the Olaf side of the train.

Here is Ezri who wanted her photo with the Elsa side of the train.

Ezri liked this permanent statue honoring a couple who met in grade school and spent their lives together. She shared her hat briefly.

But it was much too cold out for that to last.

At least the sun was shining. Here are Ezri and Meghan posing with a particularly colorful train engine.

We went in an ice cream shop hoping they’d have hot cocoa. They did, but Ezri decided to double down and get hot cocoa AND ice cream. My kid is smart and lucky.