Water, Water, Snow

In preparation for our trip to the beach, more swimming lessons.

Then over to the Kluesner house for some outside water in its frozen white form. :) We all had a blast sledding down the hill, across the walkway, and sometimes through (under?) the evergreen trees.

"Campout"

Lucas and Megan attempted a sleepover in Lucas' room last night.  Attempted, because after two hours of playing around, they were sent to their own beds, but they had fun anyway.  I'm not sure they had enough stuffed animals, though.

Happy 1st Birthday Nathaniel & Ben

Today we got to celebrate Nathaniel & Ben's birthdays at a double birthday bonanza! Twice the birthdays, twice the cake and twice the birthday fun! Their smash cakes were pretty cool!

100th Day of Kindergarten!

Lucas and his class celebrated 100 days of Kindergarten today! Everyone made their shirts with 100 100s on them to wear for the day, and took in 100 of something edible and 100 of something non-edible ... for snack and to decorate their sign, respectively.

When the parents showed up for the celebration, the kids calmly kept listening to Ms. Lisa reading a book. Impressive, considering that as soon as Ms. Lisa gave the okay, they all charged the parents and threw snowballs (cotton balls) at us. It was probably not easy for them to sit there hiding their cotton balls. :)

Play Date

We had a bunch of Megan's friends and their siblings over today for some lunch and some fun. I'm not sure if the play dates are more for the moms or the kids, but everyone has a good time.

Scrub, Scrub, Scrub

Lucas and Megan have interesting fascinations. Had to yell at them twice last night to stop cleaning the bathroom (with toilet paper) and get back to bed. Tonight, I let them fulfill their dreams ... a full hour, 3/4 a roll of toilet paper and some paper towels later, and they still aren't satisfied with how clean it is. Both were mad that they had to stop to go to bed because they weren't done.

Crazy Messiness

Those crazy kids ...

Megan's class had some sensory fun at school that we decided to duplicate at home. We took some old leftover newborn diapers and cut them open. The insides of 3 newborn diapers have the capacity to absorb at least 6 cups of water (we decided to stop at 6).

First Diorama

Lucas made his first diorama for school this week. Since it was of the ocean variety, Lucas started by painting the inside blue and then adding some coral and some Nemo stickers. Finally, some tissue paper coral, dangling fish and ... voila!