From Teacher Workdays to Monday
Holidays, weekends, cold days, snow days, and ice days, and sick days……we were
home a LOT this month!
We made the most of our time at home, while
watching the snow fall! We made a
box village in our basement with Kristy and our friends on teacher
workday. We painted. We made Valentine gifts (birdseed
ornaments) for our bird friends. We also made lots of art on our
own! We love to cut, paint, draw,
glue and make creations!
We worked on Valentines for school,
family, and friends. We enjoyed putting all those heart shaped crayons in our
Valentine’s and exchanging them at school.
And we enjoyed lots of
Valentine’s-themed treats, from heart pancakes and waffles to heart shaped
carrots and strawberries, heart-shaped framed eggs, pink oatmeal and pink
(strawberry) milk.
We cooked with Mommy a lot too! We made Jell-O Jigglers, pudding, Valentine’s
apple rose tarts, and filled pancakes for Shrove Tuesday, which just happened
to be a snow day also (Mommy FINALLY broke out her Ebelskiver pan from MANY
years ago, for the first time!!). Oh, and don’t forget the “Snow Cream!”
We played games, built with Legos, played some favorite make-believe
games, like prince/princess/castle/fortress,and Hide and Seek; and had dance
parties before bed almost every night (a completely strategic energy-burner!).
OH – and we did go outside, too! We sledded, rolled in the snow, made
snow angels, helped clear the driveway, made a snowman on the ground, when the
snow wouldn’t pack, and made a great 3D snowman when the snow did pack.
We had some fun outings when we could
get out! On a “cold day”, we went
to a mom and tot skate at an arena in Maryland, and were SO proud to find
ourselves skating across the ice confidently, on our first outing (holding the
little walker supports). We had lots of fun running pancake
races at church, at the Pancake Brunch before Ash Wednesday. Running and flipping is really tough,
but 50% of our team still got an award for being the “cutest runner”, and was
kind enough to share her medal and trophy with her brother. And we got back to swim class and were thrilled to have our
(Katharine’s) favorite teacher. We
had a ball, and really stretched our willingness to be so brave.
Our favorite February happening were
the weeks that our classroom friend, “George,” the monkey, came to stay at our
house. Katharine got to host
George for a week, and then it was Christopher’s turn. You will see that George did just about
everything with us! We took lots
of pictures, which were then pasted into George’s journal, in which we narrated
his story to share with our class.
George even went to Christopher’s haircut, and rode the Metro with us,
on our visit to the Native American Museum in DC!
So, as much as we missed our friends at
school, we have been a little bit gleeful about staying up, sleeping in,
watching an extra show or two, and having time to pick what we’d like to do
next. But warmer weather, and the
time change are on their way (soon, fingers crossed!), to get us back into a
regular routine.
We hope February was kind to you too,
and that you enjoy some of our favorite photos from this month.
Dreaming of Spring!
Love,
Christopher and Katharine
