Snowed In

This is how we spent many of our days snowed in at home. Lucy was out of school for about a week and a half so we had lots of time together and lots of time to do projects that we haven't done in a while or have been meaning to do. First on the list for Lucy: make ice cream in her new ice cream maker that Santa brought. This consisted of a lot of shaking of a canister for about 10 minutes and another 10 minutes to enjoy the ice cream. Who would have thought that ice cream on a snowy day would be such a huge hit?

Surprise Tea party! The girls were playing/fighting in the basement and I decided to surprise them with a tea party upstairs for lunch. That was fun and Harper had a grand time trying to figure out exactly how to drink out of a cup that doesn't have a sippy top on it. She also enjoyed pouring her own drinks. The real fun came afterwards when I filled up their play sink and a bucket of water with suds and let them "clean up" their tea party. I think we actually got about 2 1/2 hours of fun out of these activities.

Since the snow was so deep the girls couldn't really play in it for very long so we decided to bring some inside for them to play with. They filled cups, made mountains for their animals and ate a fair share of it, all without gloves and snow bibs.

Dance parties. Harper had a dance party about every hour but every once in a while we would all join in. Of course, SugarHill Gang is the "house music" around here.

The day the snow began falling we took the chance to go to the pool and get some energy out of our systems. Graham was ordered to hold Barbie for Lucy- his lot in life. Now it's Barbie, one day it will be her purse.

I took Harper and Lucy to see "Princess and the Frog" on our first snow day, before the roads were too bad. They were psyched about the movie (Harper's first in a movie theatre) but not so hip to having their photo taken.

When all else fails? Dress up! You may not know it, but this is the girls in Hockey gear. The mask is their face mask, the tails are their "gear belts", the high heels on Lucy are her skates. Usually Lucy's jockey silks are donned as well as that has her number and is her "uniform". Wouldn't they look tough on the ice? Sometime Lucy also adds her gold rimmed "rock star sunglasses" and her riding crop to make the outfit a ski outfit. She usually just ends up looking like a blind weirdo in stripper heels.

It was fun while it lasted and while we still have plenty of snow on the ground, we are happy to be back at school and work, but always looking forward to the weekend!