Snow Activities

Today was another snow.  Tomorrow is one too.  Thank goodness we had activities and visitors to help pass the time.  Snow days make me realize how much we are out and about.  Being stuck in the house is NOT our thing.  This is part of what my living room looked like before 8:00 am.  But, I will say, they were having a good time and that's what mattered.  

Cohan woke up and got very excited to paint all the snow.  Even though he was still in his PJs, I let him stand on the front porch and 'paint.'  

PLEASE NOTE: HE PICKED OUT AND PUT ON HIS OWN SHOES.    

Then Uncle Pooh (who also had a snow day) came over to shovel our drive.  Cohan went out to play with him.  I used this time to feed Ireland lunch, make Cohan's lunch and clean up a bit! 

After lunch, we made Chocolate Chip Snow Ice Cream. It was a hit. 

When Scott got home, Jack came back over to play outside.  The boys had a goal of building a snow man.  They also built a fort and tossed our balloons we made last night (that never froze).  Cohan, of course, painted it all.

 Tomorrow we have play dates planned, errands to run and Cohan's birthday party to prepare for.  

I have Lightning McQueen on my brain...  

More Snow?!?!?

We enjoyed our two snow days last week...  

 We are supposed to get at least 9 more inches tomorrow.  School has already been called off.  This means another snow day!!  Cohan is so excited.  I am already stir crazy.  We have learned some lessons.  Tonight, after dinner, Cohan and I made a trip to Walmart (along with everyone else in Columbia).  I looked up lots of fun things we could do.  We have ingredients for peppermint chocolate chip snow ice cream, the materials to 'paint' our snow, and even balloons we filled tonight with colored water so we will have colored ice balls to decorate the snow with tomorrow...

Ireland is a crawling machine and Cohan loves the new active playmate.  

I'm excited to have them play together in the snow tomorrow!!  

Phone Photo Dump

Randomly, I have to take pictures off my phone to save them to the computer.  

Here a few funny ones I had this time...

Future McDonald's worker?

 Alison sent me these two pictures a couple weeks ago.  She said she was feeding Sofia and Cohan said he would take care of Ireland.  My cup runs over.

Old man

Lake house.  Riding in a wheel barrow.

Snow Day #1

Today Columbia got LOTS of snow.  We were out to dinner with friends when we found out Wednesday night.  This made our day!!  Cohan was excited to play in the snow and have a day at home.  For breakfast, Cohan and I made homemade pancakes.  He loved it!

I tried to keep taking pictures to show how quickly it was coming down.  We also had thunder snow.  It was really cool and the snowflakes were HUGE!!!

Papa H dropped off our sled that we had in their basement.  Cohan and Ireland were excited!!! 

This meant that we were heading out to "sled." 

As soon as Scott got home, Cohan "helped" shovel the drive, Cohan and I did more "sledding" and made snow angels.  He even pegged daddy with some snowballs. 

Cohan and I made some peanut butter cookies, made banana nut bread loaves and we all enjoyed time together.  We are ready for another snow day tomorrow!!