Science center

Grandpa and the kids playing at the science museum.

Gage lifting 100+ pounds of force!

Mommy might have helped him with this next one

Savannah doing the forecast

Uh oh - Gage locked grandpa in hurrican force winds!

Cousin time!

Duck pin bowling!

And then...the fire house! We have "connections" so the kids got to go for a fire truck ride with lieutenant mike for a "truck test" - complete with lights and sirens! 

I got to ride up front and take charge of the siren and air horn - lt. Mike may be in some trouble after our ride ;-)

Trying on cousin Kevin & uncle bobs helmets

The verdict = fun. They played hide and seek in the fire truck bay. There are perks to being a fire family!

Day 2 - New York City

NYC is only 90 minutes from moms house - why have I not spent more time there?! First stop- Time Square

With a stop by Toys R Us where Nanny got scared of the Dino in the Eloise movie - which we *love* :-)

Next up...the kids first taxi ride, and the. A stop at the swanky Plaza Hotel. Yes, that's where Eloise lived!! What do you know...these have an Eloise store there where everything is "rawwwther pink".

They also have delish cookies

And..the horse and carriage rides are just across the street. So, we took a ride around Central Park .

And...next up was shopping at the American girl store. She had $224 saved up...and she spent every penny :-)

Gage closed out the day with a trip to the NYc lego store. He had $118 saves!! Where do these kids get this $?? 

A great day...thank you Aunt Karen for being out guide :-)

Day 1 CT - sledding!!!'

Time change troubles

Bedtime fun. It started out with making silly faces with a red light...

And then...savannah started dancing on the bed!!' This time change is tough on us!!

A girl and her dog :-)

I know a little girl who loves her puppy...and a puppy who loves a little girl!

Need to clean the windows!

The kids had a snow day the other day...ice/sleet day is more like it. For a dog who loves eating ice...it was heaven!

Gage loved playing outside. He and the neighbor had ice ball fights, and he built an igloo out of sleet. It was small. Very small. We had about 1/4 inch of sleet.

Pepper also have him window kisses

This salsa debate

Gage...the boy who hates vegetables.

This salsa was unacceptable because it had yucky vegetables.

A quick spin through the food processor, however, "removed" the yucky vegetables, and Made it yummy. 

Same salsa. With chunks = yucky. Without chunks = yummy.  

Makes sense to me?

Big puppy!

She weighs as much as Savannah.  44lbs! She is beautiful...and most of the time, she is a sweet girl. But...

She is also a monster.A devil in disguise. She has a special affinity for my plants. Oh yes..they are so tasty...she can't resist. Please mama...don't be mad...these tender leaves are irresistible.

They are so good, I snap off big pieces of the plant to eat when no one's looking. Oh shucks...someone is looking.

Mm..maybe if I hide under the dining room table where it's hard for mom to reach me because I keep moving away from her...

Mm... Maybe I should eat my bed instead...it's like eating a cloud. I don't swallow it..I just pull the tiny clouds out and decorate the floor with them.

Pepper came out to the mail is with me. I made the mistake of dropping a piece of mail. She snatched it and ran off. Apparently she wants to go to the beach ;-)

Oh pepper...life is much more interesting with you around!

No more sickies!!!

Last week we saw the doc for the flu...this week it was for Savannah's 8 year old healthy check up!

She is just shy of 4 feet tall and weighs in at 44 lbs. her brother weighs in a 46.5, so he has passed her out! She started out as a tiny peanut in the 5th percentile for weight and is still on the same 5% curve (slightly under that)! Crazy to think that 96% of 8 year olds weigh more than she does!

She had a great checkup and is feeling all better! She loved wearing this gown and got excited when the doc said she could take it off "unless she wanted to wear it to school". Crazy girl thought that was her green light to take it home!

Dr Seuss

On honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday, the kids' school hosts a green eggs and ham breakfast.

As we stood in line, Savannah asked me with big puppy dog eyes if she could skip breakfast and go to her classroom. She misses her teacher and her friends (since she was sick last week) and didn't want to eat green eggs anyway.  She is just growing up too fast....

But, Gage stayed for breakfast. As we went through the lunchroom line, he took one look at the very very green eggs, he said "I'm going to be nice and not take any green eggs so other people can have them". Ha! What a gentlemanly way of passing on yucky looking eggs. So,  he doubled up on ham and toast with jelly, and all was good.

Take a look at the green eggs on my plate - I think he was smart to pass on them ;-)

Snow night!

School has been delayed 2 hours twice a week from the last 2 weeks for possible icy conditions that were never icy! Yesterday they cancelled school entirely for an impending "major snow event" that forecast 2-4 inches for us.  It rained all day...until it finally turned to snow at 6:45!!! 

We flew outside yelling "it's snowing it's snowing" - and it was. Big huge fluffy nickel sized snow flakes. Gage went crazy!!  Before bed last night he told me that it was the best day of his life :-)

Snowball fights...

And perfecting his snow ball making skills were the name of the game.

What a fun night!! We ended up with an inch or less, and it started melting that night. It's all gone now,  But..he had another 2 hour delay today, so he played outside today until I dragged him in to get dressed for school. 

His poor sister was in bed nursing a fever of 102 since last night  :-( Apparently there is a "fever big" going around (who has heard of such a thing??). But, that's what she seems to be down with. Just a fever, feeling tired, and a headache that comes and goes. She is suppose to have a sleepover party here tomorrow, but that may have to be cancelled. We'll cross our fingers that she wakes up at 100% tomorrow!