While Daddy's Away...

Mike's down in NC this week preparing for the ACC Tournament, so the boys and are are hanging out for a couple days. They're good at being silly!

Snack time after school! Look at these two peas in a pod watching a show.

 

Someone (Drew) got into the markers! All I heard was "mouff!" I turned and Drew
was drawing himself a moustache. Of course Evan had to get in on the action...
silly kids! Good thing they're washable markers.

 After markers, it's definitely bath time. We have a lot of shaving cream, which
turns the bath into quite a sensory experience (and an artistic one). Drew decided
shaving cream is fun as shampoo. It doesn't really get the hair clean, but it sure
does make him smell yummy for the next couple days!

 Time for teeth! Drew's been brushing his (few) teeth for about a year now,
and today he was very proud to show off his brushing skills.

Rainy Day

Downpour this morning, so we made sure we were dressed appropriately!

Things

"What would you do if Thing 1 and Thing 2 came to your house?" Here are Evan's class' answers.

School

We got to school a little late this morning, and Circle Time had already started. Evan's friend Caden was "reading" his book to the class - I love the opportunities for leadership the teacher provides! After Caden was done, Ms. Stephanie took the chair and truly read the book to a very captive audience.

 

So big, so little

‎"You look so big!" I said in the middle of our impromptu game, suddenly overcome with pride and amazement at the awesome kid in front of me. He paused and looked closely at me, spotting the out-of-nowhere tears in my eyes. 

 

"Don't cry, mommy," he said, grinning, as he climbed into my lap and wrapped his arms around my neck. "I'm only four years old!! I'll stay your little boy for a looong time!"

Dinner Around Town

Lots of dinners out this week, at Charlottesville hotspots...

Bodo's Bagels for dinner - yum! Evan had "an egg and ham and cheese" bagel, and Drew just stuck with plain cream cheese. I think the bagel was almost as big as his head, but he made short work (and a bit of a mess) of it!

Pizza at Christians - half cheese and half pepperoni. Evan loves eating at the "pizza parlov," where he can people-watch and see them warm his dinner in the massive ovens.

Trips to the grocery store and Target were then in order, since we've apparently been out of food for the last two nights!

Evan loves to ride along and read or do puzzles on his Leap Pad, and is generally a fantastic grocery buddy. Except for when I have to relinquish half of the much-needed cart space to a 4 year old with long legs... he ends up getting packed in like a sardine, but never complains. Such is his intense game-focus. (Yes, I did put his coat over his legs for some insulation before essentially surrounding him with ice in the frozen food section, ha!.) And Buzz came along to Target, hanging out in front of the cart and watching for potential evil-doers. Hey, even Space Rangers need Target supplies sometimes!

Snow Day!

There's no birthday present quite like a surprise snowstorm and the day off for everyone! (Surprise in that we've had 60+ weather for a while now and all the flowers are coming up - not surprise in that the weather people have been warning us for a week now that the storm was coming.)

All told, we got about 14" of snow. Heavy, wet snow. And a TON of broken limbs and downed branches. The tree people around here are going to be busy for weeks to come. Power was out for much of the city for a couple days, but we got lucky and only had a few blips. So - we went out to play! Evan of course had a blast, making snowballs and snow angels and snow men and sliding down the slide headfirst into mounds of snow and painting the snow with food coloring... Drew wasn't so keen. He's shorter than the rest of us, and his movement was already hindered by snowpants, and it was very very heavy snow, so he would stand in a spot, try to move, then cry, "Mommy, STUCK!!" Yep. He couldn't go anywhere. We made him a path, which was ok for a little while, but it was still just not as much fun when you can't roll and run and jump like your big brother. Or play basketball in the snow. He really wanted that and couldn't figure why it wouldn't work. So we snuggled inside, which was great too! We had lasagna and brownies for dinner, and everyone (all five of us) slept hard at both nap and bedtime. It was definitely a good day! Plus, it's going to be 60 all weekend again, so all these mountains and mountains of snow will be gone quickly - perfect!