Sunday, November 26, 2006

SNOW!!!!


We have snow!! We woke up to about 8 inches. By the time the kids got out to play we had about a foot. Poor Gus does not like the snow. It's pretty funny to see a goat hanging out in a dog house. I did have to pull out the heavy boots. My toes just got too cold shoveling off the front stairs in flip flops.
You can see by the picture that Molly was eating the snow. Then came the snow angels. Ben even managed to make it to the swing set. After dinner was snow ice cream--a little milk, sugar and vanilla mixed with snow. Ben is hoping for more snow so he can stay home from school. After 5 days off, I am hoping for all day school.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving



Here is a picture Ben drew in school Tuesday. It is him eating ice cream. There are our pets, Gus the goat, and Jackie and Ariel our rabbits. He told me he drew Fred (the blue square) too because he misses him. (I don't know how much you can miss a fish that survived almost 3 weeks). I love Ben's drawings. He's really blossoming as an artist since he began Kindergarten.

I hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving.

Monday, November 20, 2006

I'm back...


Back on line at home that is. 11 days of no on line capabilities just about killed me. Ben is happy to have the computer back on line as well. He tries to spend hours playing video games on cartoonnetwork.com. I figure he's working on that hand-eye coordination. Plus it's pretty funny to watch him play. He gets so excited if he makes it to the next level. Molly could care less about the computer. As long as she gets to watch The Little Mermaid once a day, she is content.


Monday, November 13, 2006

Sorry!!

Sorry to you 2 or 3 faithful readers. My computer hasn't been able to go on line for 8 days. 8 DAYS!!! That's an eternity for me. Luckily, I have the most wonderful mother in law in the world, and I can use hers :). So here is a quick update. Molly had 2 ear infections last week. She is back to annoying poor Ben, so she is feeling better. Darrin's Uncle Jerry passed away. Ben drew him a picture to take to heaven with him. Fred, or beloved betta fish, passed away too. After flushing poor old Fred, Ben said "Oh no!!! We forgot to feed him!" Um, do you think he's understanding this death thing??

So here there is an update. I mainly wanted you all (yeah, the 2 or 3 of youwho were dying for an update) to know, we have no gotten washed out or blown away by our freaky weather.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Ben's School Picture



Check out Ben's school picture. He chose the green background because green, and red, and blue, and orange are his favorite colors. I am so glad he looks good in the picture. If you have seen his picture from tee ball, you know what I mean. I love the deer in the headlight look. Ben told me he tried to smile so you could see where he lost his bottom teeth.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

The Vampire and the Princess


The kids had a great Halloween. Ben was so excited to be a Vampire. He wanted that make up on as soon as he got hoome from school. First I did his hair. It took forever to get it to lay back. It still wasn't what I wanted, but it looked ok. He sat pretty still and had to check in the mirror every few minutes. We got a lot of compliments on his make up. 4 ladies at Down Manor insisted on taking his picture.
Molly wanted to be a princess. She let me put her hair in a bun and she put on her Barbie dress up dress and some of her dress up jewelry. She wasn;t too happy to wear her tennis shoes "because they're NOT PRINCESS SHOES!" Yeah, she put them on when it was time to go and she didn't want to be left behind :)
No, Ben didn't stay awake on the way home. I have picture of him every year asleep in the car in his Halloween costume.