This dog is like a jealous baby needing to be the closest thing to Mom. Luke had my lap, so she climbed over him to my chest. I'm feeling very loved... and squished.
Loving the first snow of the season! We made a snowman who Jacob name Leona, snowball fights around our snow wall/fort, and a well-earned hot cocoa to finish it off!
Lucas has been doing a little class once a week with crafts, songs, and a bit of learning. At this point, he just puts up with the crafts so he can go play, but he was actually concentrating on this one! You can tell because his tongue is sticking out :).
We took the kids ice skating for their first time! It was a rough start with three new skaters and only two adults, but they got up each time they fell and continued trying hard. It ended up being a lot of fun, and I'm so proud of these kids for not giving up! Except Luke... He took one go-around with me, and we couldn't get him close to the ice after that 😂. We'll give him another year or two! The older two can't wait to go try it again.
The school decided to do no homework the week before Christmas, so we were able to do some more family activities. We tried out cinnamon salt-dough Christmas ornaments. They turned out really fun, and each of the kids gave some to their teachers for Christmas.
Another fun LAB-rary day! They were working with positives/negatives to make a circuit path to turn on these little lights that he stuck in the play dough type stuff.
Then they had Lucas hold a sensor and they hooked other sensors into different fruits, connected it to the computer, and then when you touched the fruit it would make sounds. Super cool.
Emma's winter band concert. These kids have only been doing band since the fall, and it's pretty impressive how far they've come in such a short time. Still not the most pleasant thing to listen to, but definitely improving! Emma started out hating band and the flute, but she now enjoys it and plays pretty well!
When Brad decides he wants to run into a store really quick to check out their meat selection, we take selfies to pass the time...
Not much snow this season, but we got another slight dusting so Jake made a mini-snowman.
And Emma made some micro snowmen.
And Luke was just happy to be outside with any snow at all.
