With the bright sunshine and a backyard of fluffy snow, we just had to get outside today. Both Lily and Andrew are outside, wide open spaces kind of kids and they had a blast romping around in the snow. Andrew has this weird facination of doing snow angels face first in the snow. Guess some kids just march to their own beat, eh? I had fun snapping these pictures of them. 
We're enjoying a quiet morning here. A cup of hot tea, Christmas lights are on and there's snow on the ground. Lily is making a story in an old notebook. I just read the story with pictures and it says this:
The night before Christmas Daddy, Mommy, Lily and Andrew are sleeping.
There are Christmas lights on the house.
We wake up in the morning and open our prezents.
My favrit prezent is my brother Andew
Merry Christmas.
I'm keeping this book and will look at it fondly (esp. when the get into their next power struggle :)
Wow! So much time has passed since my last post. What can I say? Between work, managing a home, raising 2 children and all the additional preparations, I've been busy. Things have been going well around our household. Lily has learned how to read at such a fast rate, it's amazing. Her kindergarten teacher is known for getting kids reading at the second grade level by the end of the year and I can believe it. She's almost there now! Andrew is learning new words at the rate of one per day. It's fun to see. The other day I didn't realize he knew the word for Zebra and asked if he was playing with a horse. He looked at me as if I were the one who needs help with my vocabulary and said "No horse Momma. Zebra!"
We're gearing up for Christmas here and I think it's going to be a good one. Fortunately for me, I was able to get my shopping done pretty early and with the help of my family, I got some of those "hard to find" toys. Thanks Dad! Shopping is done, everything is wrapped and the cards are all out. Lily and I are on our Christmas break now. Yipee!! Sixteen days of freedom. Our schedule this week should be fun. We're going to take Andrew to his first movie, Disney's Frog Princess. We are going to bake, drive and see some lights and go to the train display downtown and visit Daddy's office. I'm so looking forward to it and ofcouse celebrating Christmas Eve and Day with the family. I hope everyone is able to enjoy a healthy, relaxing and wonderful holiday!
Here are some pictures of the kids last night out at our favorite Chinese restaurant. 
