We started the month of Love off with an FHE where we wrote down a reason why we love each family member. It was a lot of fun! We sure do love each other and it's good to put it all out in the open when we don't say it often enough.
This was also the extent of Valentine decorating/celebrating as we just came off Wes' birthday and were prepping for this big guy's day.
Luckily, as you can tell, it was enough. Kids are so easy, as long as you just do SOMETHING.
We got some decent weather, so we pulled out the scooter and stroller.
These cute boys make just about anything fun.
Again, so easy to please. Just go to the nearest empty parking lot and let them ride to their heart's content!
Back and forth, back and forth...
So easy.
Not exactly sure how this boy felt about the whole thing...
No smiling, no crying. He just went along for the ride.
I'll take it!
I'll take it!
Thad also wanted to play on the stairs, so I obliged.
That kid has so many cute faces in the matter of seconds! Love him.
To end our parking lot/scooter outing, we played with some old snow. While forming snowballs, Thad said, "This is fun making snowballs, mom! I've never made snowballs before."
I felt sad that he had never had this experience...but not for long, because I knew he would have plenty of opportunity come the weekend.
We were right in the path for the Blizzard of 2013, aka Winter Storm Nemo.
It has been kinda crazy the amount of extreme weather we have experienced in our short 2.5 years here on the east coast! We've had three "epic" record breaking storms. Not totally sure how I feel about this, but it has definitely heightened my awareness of Emergency Preparedness and hopefully I can put action to those lessons.
I kind of didn't believe it was going to be as crazy as they were all saying it was going to be, so I ventured to the grocery store the morning it began:
I was one of the few brave souls to do so! I don't think the I-95 has ever been so empty on a weekday at 9:30a.m.
The Utah girl inside of me really go me through this!
By the afternoon, this was our front yard, and by midnight, it looked like this:
Yeah, I was too nervous to venture out into this!
This was our view in the morning.
The wind was still blowing crazy hard, so nobody started shoveling/clearing snow until about 1pm.
Luckily we have the best neighbors ever and they cleared our walks and car all on their own because Brian was out of town and not able to help.
Yeah, I'm a brave girl to handle a storm like this on my own!
By the afternoon we had a beautiful, winter day.
I wanted to take Thad out in the snow, but with Brian gone and Thad not asking, I almost didn't bring myself to do it.
Wes decided to go down for a nap, so I pulled the snow stuff out at 5pm and we were just going to go out for a few minutes, because as you can see by his gloves that we don't have the best snow gear around...
But Christina decided after staying in all day that she wanted to play outside too!
It was so perfect and Thad LOVED playing in the snow with her.
He definitely got some of that snowball practice that he has been missing out on!
Emmy hooked Thad up with some of Christina's old mittens, so he was able to stay out until dark!
They are seriously the funnest people and built snow mans and had snow ball fights with the kids while I took care of Wes. Really great people!
Wes and I joined at the end of the outing, but couldn't stay long because of that lack of snow gear I mentioned earlier. He didn't mind.
This was his excited face when we got to come back inside!
Dad made it home that night, and we had a wonderful weekend taking it easy and being somewhat snowed in.
February faces and fun:
Can you guess what Dad forgot to do after changing his diaper?
Wes is cool, though, he can roll with it.
Strawberries have a been a great price and Brian and Thad have been DOWNING PB&Js like no tomorrow, so homemade jam was a must. It has been so worth it!
Thad has been getting so much better pretending and playing on his own.
He hasn't had the best teacher to help him along with his imagination, but I think he is fairing just fine.
Side note: He is the sweetest big brother. He put this box of toys up to play on the table because we have told him to be careful with the tiny toys around Wes, and he doesn't want him to get hurt. It seriously melted my heart when he told me that. I love him so much. Wes is one lucky boy to have Thad as his big brother.
Thad has also picked up his interest in photography again lately.
I hope you enjoy his talent as much as we do!
And this is one day when I didn't want to wake up.
Like I said, he is getting very good at entertaining himself!
