January Fun

Lots of planning for our vacation around here; reading books, looking at websites, making reservations, and planning our itinerary. R says he is tired of the snow, but he still goes out to play now as much as he does in the summer. The snow this year has been obnoxious. B did not get season passes for skiing this year because the snow has been so bad the last few years. Now he is considering getting monthly passes to Mount Southington for himeself and R, when we get back from Florida.

The boys have been playing basketball on Saturdays. No weekday sports at all. It has been heavenly for me with so much less driving. I signed them up with some neighborhood friends. We parents take turn driving the kids, and the kids get some time to play together while not playing basketball. It's turning out to be a great arrangement. (For those of you who are new here, you can click on the photos to enlarge them.)

Here is some sort of war game that E invented. He drew the water and the land, and made up rules to play with his civil war soldiers. B played with him and said it was a pretty good game. That E is so creative.

And here is the young man with his new Nerf Long Shot. Thanks Aunt R and uncle E for all that money for Christmas :-/ The only good thing to come of this, is that I've given him permission to shoot any cats in the backyard (how screwed up is that). We have a big problem with cats chasing our birds away and everyone I've asked has assured me that the Nerf bullets will only scare them away and not really harm them. Whatever.

We tried to make some Outrageous Ooze, but it didn't work out. The kit we had was old and perhaps the gunk in there had expired. We were bummed about it, since generating excitement for this kind of activity is so challenging, and having it not work out doesn't really help the cause.

We have stopped trying to shovel the sidewalk since the boys convinced the plow guys to push all the cul-de-sac snow in the front of our house. We do have some awesome conditions out there.




B is really good about playing out front with the boys. I went down the lawn once, but I went too fast and am afraid of killing myself. So I am the photographer now.

R is getting really good at snowboarding. We have to get him on some real slopes this year. He's only skied on the slopes, but he is ready to snowboard. Here's the view of our front hill from a second floor window. Pretty cool hill. The boys built a snowman yesterday.
This is what it looks like today. We hadn't realized it was that warm outside.
E had some fun with some neighborhood kids today. He loves being the oldest.
More soon!