Let it snow!

Last week we celebrated "Thanksgiving" with a turkey I had in the freezer. I am thankful that we are getting closer and closer to spring. Note the beautiful hanging hearts.We actually had turkey just so we could have turkey tetrazzini on Valentine's day. We have the best casserole dish - Helen was in heart heaven. The girls and I made these great place mats - they only lasted one meal. It will probably be a long time before we make it through a meal without spilling.
We made the biggest snow fort on our block this week. Actually, it's the only snow fort on the block, but we are ready for an attack from any of the big kids that live around us. I keep waiting for the temperature to get substantially below freezing so it can ice up.Ryan engineered the windows for the girls and was in charge of hefting up the snowballs he, Helen, and I rolled.
Who would throw snowballs at these little angels?

Happy Halloween

This year Ryan and Helen worked together to make her Halloween costume. I am not sure who had more fun of the two. It must be noted that they were not painting in the rain, as Helen's poncho would suggest, rather Ryan is trying to keep her from becoming red from head to foot.

Here Helen is showing you the neat trick of how she can disappear into a Lego. My favorite thing that Helen said while in costume was, "It is hard for Legos to walk down stairs."

Helen was the only Lego that we saw during our two trick-or-treating events. In fact, Ryan commented on the "surprising lack of box costumes." To which I concurred, but didn't understand. I confessed that I had been a box for most Halloweens except for the time I was a stick of gum. Ryan said that hardly counted as not being a box, since I was two boxes put together.

Jane got to be a crocodile for Halloween. She was so excited. Jane has watched Helen dress up in this outfit for most of her life. I have to admit this is the first time the costume has been used for what it was intended, by the correct sized child.

Happy Columbus Day!

In honor of Columbus Day we made boats based on the pattern we learned from reading Curious George. We didn't have any frogs, ducks or bugs to put in the boats, so Helen grabbed some elephants.

Sadly it was raining outside so we had to launch the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria in the bathtub.