Valentines Visit

Valentine's Day dress up at Beth's house in Atlanta with all the goodies provided by Beth's mom! The girls lived in their skirts and sparkle shoes all week!
Eloise in flight!

All dressed up and no place to go . . .

ready for a Valentines day tea complete with pink frosted cookies and apple juice in tea cups.

Go Packers!

Go Pack Go! We watched the super bowl at a friend's house this year. Eli was enjoying the appetizers . . .

Analise is wearing a Packer's skirt (I made the night before) and some beads - luckily St. Patrick's day is the same color as Packer wear!

Winter Carnival

Directly in front of the front door, in the main thoroughfare of the apartment, is a small shelf of books. So why is it that this would be the favorite place to sit and play?Reading together . . .

Now on to Winter Carnival . . .

Skating at Occum Pond as the kickoff for Dartmouth winter carnival last weekend . . . I really had to hold myself back now that I've become such an amazing hockey player . . . ha! ha!
kid version of ice fishing . . .
roasting rather toasting marshmallows over a not so open flame . . .

Hi Li - Li!!

beautiful day and beautiful setting definitely New England at it's finest - But we have some major worn out kids here -

Montshire Science Museum

During these snowy months we're looking for things to do indoors - one place to head is the Montshire children's/ science museum The bubble exhibit, toddler tree house and giant moose keep us busy . . . for at least an hour!The little ornery one didn't want her picture taken
Eli is getting around so fast now and pulling up on everything that it's hard for me to remember a time when he was STATIONARY!!
There was a special exhibit by the Blue Man Group about science and music. It was fun to play songs with a giant paddle on different pipes . . .
Daddy takes a whack at it . . .

Dinner time!

Doesn't seem to matter how many toys there are in this house . . .somehow the troops end up playing wherever I am . . .
"Muah - ha - ha- ha I ate all of my pasta - and I will eat yours too!"
"tasty!"
"High 5 - don't leave me hanging!"
Thanks Great Grandma Schlobohm for the fancy bib/ apron - it's perfect for spaghetti dinner!This video is a little snapshot of the end of dinner. Sorry i spend too long trying to get him to wave when he's clearly not doing it -but he is waving, clapping, kissing and dancing now and it's so fun to watch!

Snow day

We have snow! Of course the blizzard of the year happened the day we were supposed to drive to a town 1 hour away to see "Sesame Street Live." We were pretty disappointed at first, but thankfully we got over pretty easy. Later daddy came home and we ventured out for a walk . . .

Thanks Grandma Mueller for Eli's stylish coat and snow pants! What a combo!

It snowed pretty much all day and the drifts were quite something!

borrowed a friend's sled and we're heading out

"Hmm, what are my sister and dad doing?"
They're trying to make snow angels . . . but this was a little too deep for that!

Our neighbor's car needs a little help - we might not see that one until the thaw!

Story Time

Story time is Thursday mornings at the Howe Library in Hanover and it's one of our favorite outings! Analise is waving to "Midge" the teacher's puppet hedgehog. We have fun listening to stories, singing songs and coloring.playing her egg shaker . ..

My favorite part is watching Analise grow from such a little toddler to a pre-pre-schooler! We started coming at the beginning of the fall and the change in how she interacts in the class, listens to the stories and absorbs everything going on has been so interesting and fun to watch.
Our friend Stephanie and her two boys, Zachy and Van, come too!
After story time Analise lined up all the characters on the felt board . . .
Van and Eli - rebels without a cause, hangers-on in the "above 2 year old" class . . .
the magic rain stick turns over to say "The magic of story time has begun" it gets their attention every week!
Zachy putting his piece on the felt board

After story time we walk across the street to Ramuntos with Stephanie and her boys to have pizza for lunch. Usually the daddies get done around the same time and meet us there - definitely one of the highlights of our week! Here Analise and Zachy are checking out snow packed against the window and then chasing around the post. For all that Analise loves dollies, princesses and mommies - she really know how to hold her own and Zachy is often the brunt of her affections!