Snow days

People have been asking me whether my kids get snow days. There have been quite of few of them lately around here. So what do home schoolers do? In our house, we still have school. I may scale it back a little bit, but we have school. I keep telling the kids that if we keep going through vacations and snow days, we can be done at the end May (instead of late June). So, the kids don't get to experience the joy of rolling over and going back to sleep when a snow days is announced. But, they do get to do their home work in front of the fire...



... and eat pudding.

The girls must be growing up

Annie lost her first tooth last week! She's not even 5 years old. Of course I can't remember when the boys lost their first tooth, but I think they were at least 5.


Annie also started sleeping in a big girl bed last week.


Lauren has been getting used to potty time. We still have a ways to go, but we've started and she's receptive. "Dit potty?"


On a totally different topic, the pictures in the post are showing a few of the many things we still have to do in this house. Interior trim and baseboard, floors, paint on the walls (other than primer)... those things will come....

Around the house...

.... there's a lot of snow. The kids (well, not Lauren, the snow is too tall for her) have been having a blast in it. The boys have been making snow forts at their friends' houses all over town. Corban gets up early in the morning, eats breakfast, gets dressed and goes outside to play for a while before it's time for school. And most epic, Jack and the boys got up early this morning to ski. They drove to a hill in town, hiked up it and skied back down. They got in a few runs and then headed home for Saturday morning pancakes. Life is good. It's tough to say whose smile was bigger this morning, Jack's or the boys.







Not only did Jack take the boys skiing this morning, but he even took the camera!

Happy 2011!

Look at those kids! In June of this year, there will be one more kid in the family pictures. I'm 18 weeks pregnant and feeling great!

We did build a big house...