Another Snowy Weekend

There has been snow on the ground here since October. There have been time periods of warmer temperatures and periods between snow, but it has not completed melted from our yard since before Halloween. This is what we were doing about this time last year in our back yard. I can't wait for summer. We were able to take advantage of a day at home to let the boys go sledding down our little hill. I know we'll eventually need to find bigger hills around town in the future, but it sure is nice to have one in our backyard.


The boys like for the 3 of to take a picture with the camera on a 10 second delay. So below is of us tonight while I was getting dinner ready.

Nana and Grandad got the boys these super cute aprons for Valentines Day. I had told mom how Luke called me Chef Mama and himself Chef Luke, so we now all (minus Greg) have our own personalized chef aprons. Mom offered one to Greg so he wouldn't feel left out, but he declined, I told her to get him one that said "Dishwasher Daddy."


These cookies took me all day today to make, but I think they turned out really cute (the boys love the Earth one). They are for the Social Studies department at school for allowing the Counseling department to use their classes for registration - the star is one of the school's logos.


New things going on with the boys:

• A couple of weeks ago Greg was getting on to Ryan for playing at the dinner table and Ryan said, "Santa's watching you, Daddy, and you aren't going to get any presents." He now tells us that a lot and then scowls.
  

• Luke has been wearing underwear to bed at night (no pull-up)for the last week and half without any accidents.

• Both boys have a running storyline of their "family house." They make up scenarios of what is at their family house and who can come visit (Luke told me that when my family house is broken, I can come to his). We're not sure where their family house is located, Luke sometimes tell us that it is in the clouds and he takes a rocket ship to get there.

• Ryan loves to play video games on the Wii. He and Greg will play Super Mario Brothers together, but Ryan has an absolute meltdown when his little man dies. We've tried to talk to him about not always winning, but he is pretty inconsolable when he loses.

• Greg was gone for most of last week and the boys and I did just fine. We had a much better week than we had the last time Greg was gone. It turned out that Luke had an ear infection that contributed to his mood, and I was feeling much better. We stayed home each night and even made muffins together on Thursday.
  

Lastly, a video of the boys sledding today. On the video, Ryan is throwing a fit because he couldn't get his sled up the hill. He was fine after I stopped recording and both boys had a blast taking their sleds up the hill and going down over and over again.