Mud Pies

I took the kids last week to this program called "Mud Pies" that a local nature center puts on for preschool age kids. Each week there are different arts/crafts stations and a theme. I took these pictures with my phone, so the quality isn't great. We had a lot of fun and will definitely be going back!!!!


Addie loved painting on this canvas with 'real' paint so much she couldn't take her eyes off her picture to look at me for the photo. She was in heaven!

They made up their own little puppet show. It was pretty funny to see them use the puppets!

What can I say?

I realize the daily post thing got dropped. DAD - if you think this is bad, you should see my actual journal....moving on....

It snowed another 5 inches here last week. (Actual conversation: "Eh, what's another 5 inches?") and the temperature was above zero...I think it may have even been above freezing, but maybe it just felt that way.

Anyway, when it's February in Nebraska, anything above 30 or so degrees=playing outside weather!!!!

So I got the kids all suited up (oh I'm longing for the days of shorts and sandals - so much easier!) and sent them out on their merry little way. Addie started getting more and more brave and wanted to "dig" the snow with her little bucket we use to make sand castles at the park in the summer. So she climbed the "snow mountain" (her words) in our backyard. It's a mountain. For reals.

Reminder - Here's my beautiful backyard in the summer:


And here's how I found Addie on Friday: (You HAVE to click on these pictures to get the full effect!!!)



Davis has never been a fan of the snow...until he discovered you can eat it.



Mother nature....SERIOUSLY??!?? I'm OVER THE SNOW.

Trip to the Dentist

Addie had her first trip to the dentist last week. She did okay - the cute assistant was trying to take some x-rays and Addie wasn't too sure about what was happening. The assistant kept describing it as "It's just going to kiss your cheek" or whatever...and Addie was not having any of that. I finally just told her, "It's going to take a picture of your teeth" and she calmed down and looked at the assistant like, why didn't you just tell me that in the first place???

Anyway, she did great - she got sealants on her molars and was a little worried about that whole process. Luckily this place had flat screen TVS mounted on the roof above each chair and headphones and she got to watch Sesame Street the whole time!!