Our entertainment

Walter's kindergarten class performed nursery rhymes for our preschoolers last week. Walter sang "It's Raining, It's Pouring" and was a little pig in the three little pigs skit. It was so cute! A couple of weeks ago too Walter read a book to the preschooler class, it was neat, the class was so into it. It is amazing to me every day how many more words he is reading.
This girl has been hamming it up. Every week she has a new name. Last week she was Lucy, then it was Rose Bud and then today she was Emily. Here she is holding her name tag for Rose Bud.
And here is the "finger skater." She found the helmet with our dress-up stuff and then had to go rummaging in the basement for a second skate, this is what she came-up with. Oh and our vacuum is now the Zamboni. Gotta love it.
Last but not least, Mama's little angel. She got her hair cut this week. We said good bye to the last of her baby hair. She was so excited to be in the beauty parlor and sat like a little princess the entire time.

An ice princess!

We've been taking the kids to open skating every weekend. It is interesting to see the differences between Walter and Rose E. Walter is all about speed and Rose E is a figure skater want to be. Her second time skating she saw a group of six year old girls that where in figure skating and studied them, then she pushed her pusher away and just started skating by herself. Now she is wearing dresses to skating with the dress hanging out of her snow pants to look like "one of those skaters." The kids are both upset because next weekend is the last weekend for open skating in the rink.

Oh and speaking of Rose E and clothing, she has now jumped up into a size 4t. Anyway, the other day I was putting a new pair of pants on her and they had adjusters inside the pants. Her pants kept falling down on her so I adjusted them a little tighter and she said excitedly "you mean my pants have a seat belt inside of them."

A new guest.

We are reading this book for a reading program at school and
Walter is so addicted to it. The story's main character is about a toy rabbit and his journeys. The entire school is reading this story and each class gets a stuffed rabbit to take turns taking home to take on new adventures. Anyway, Walter was ecstatic after school on Friday because it was his turn to have Edward Tulane (the rabbit). Our new guest has gone to the Mining Shaft restaurant and arcade (under Walter's request of course), to Walter's friends house, ice skating, and played a board game so far. Oh and Walter even set-up a special bed for him, using Rose E's doll bed, too cute. Walter's favorite part about the whole thing though is that he was given a camera to take a couple of pictures of Edward on his adventures.
Yes, we still have a lot of that white stuff, this time of year it is hard to imagine it all melting.

A snow train visits our yard.

Snow and trains, welcome to my world!