Friday, March 16, 2012

SNOW! (in NH)

While we visited Grammie and Gramps it dumped about a foot of snow on us. Big Fun for kids deprived of snow this year!
playin around!

brothers!

posing for mama

goofy girl

do they taste good?

hey, um, it's snowing on my face mom!

Grampie said to shovel....

good thing it was light

trying to throw for the hyper pup

pom pom anyone?

still working

catching snow flakes...

back to entertaining the dog...

just hanging around

Visiting Grammie

We visited Grammie at the end of February

 Cutie baby
Tiger lounging
Izzy models her grammie hat, and wonders what Auntie is doing snapping pictures
Being cute with her mama
Time to brush our teeth!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Around the house

Some time around the house...
building an Ancient Assyrian battle weapon for school

looking cute

building a wall to lay siege to

lego head

ha ha


yeah, it works just about like that

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Baseball in February....

Back at the end of February, we had an outdoor adventure at our friends house, that involved, of all things in New England during February-Baseball. on grass. And it was glorious. Chilly, but lovely.
spectators

mine, all mine

Zion is not sure what this is all about

Bruce at bat...fielders are a little clumped up

Ollie entertains

Dan and Harvey have the left side of the diamond

Lily on base

Harvey at bat

Cute baby model


The thirsty ball players need water!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Valentines Day

Yesterday after we did a little schooling, we made some chocolate brownie roll out cookies, in heart shapes of course. Even Eliot helped and we had a really good time ;) (and ps, these cookies are so yummy..mmm)
ready to add to the pan
mushing it back up to roll out again
so much fun! (later he had a suspicious flour mustache and he and Ollie were a bit wound up at dance....hmmmm)
cutting it out!
ta da!

Museum visit

I needed to drop off my kitchen aid in Salem last week to be fixed, so we coordinated the trip to also visited the Peabody Essex Museum. Lucky for us our friends met us there.

Sharing snacks

rest stop 
Zion and mama

There were boat models and art and artifacts from Japan and China....lots of neat rooms

Last stop- the kids and family room with activities

the favorite activity was the build a duck exhibit

or blocks for the under 2 crowd
mmm tasty

Lily's duck


Bruce and Ollie's creation

best buds playing together