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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Dinosaur Egg

February 27th: Last weekend, Rich had to work so the kids and I drove to Springfield and met Nana, Pappaw, Uncle Brad, and Aunt Brittani for dinner. We ate at Cracker Barrel and Nana took the kids shopping in the store and let them pick out something to buy. Drew picked out this dinosaur egg that you put into water and wait for it to hatch. He was so excited for it to hatch, he watched it like a hawk, made us promise to watch it for him while he was at school, and referred to it frequently as his "precious" egg. So, it finally hatched and out came the dinosaur...
Here are Drew and Katie with their "precious" egg...they took turns watching over it, and Katie was almost as excited about it as Drew.
And here's the newest member of the family...kind of slimy and really not all that cute. Drew is very attached to this thing for now, so I guess it will be sticking around.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The big winter "storm"

February 12: We were supposed to get a big winter storm today, they predicted 5-7 in. of snow and some wintry mix in there as well...but as you can see from the pictures, we probably only ended up with 3 in. or so of snow, some of which melted with the rain that followed! After the rain, there wasn't much snow left, to the kids' disappointment! Drew had his first snow day, though, and he thought that was kind of cool. When Daddy got home from work, he decided to shovel the drive instead of using the snowblower, because the snow was heavy from all of the rain. The kids thought that was a great idea. Here's Drew shoveling...

Katie, and even Alex, got their shovels and went to work as well!!!

The temperature warmed up with the rain, and Rich got too "warm" shoveling in his down jacket, so he took it off. The neighbors probably thought he was crazy!

Alex likes to find big chunks of snow to carry around...
...and lick!Katie was making snowballs and throwing them at daddy...in his short sleeves...I'm sure that felt good!
I have outgrown my winter coat (it refuses to be zipped anymore!) so I only had on a vest and I was freezing! I guess I wasn't shoveling, though!
Katie had a lot of fun making snow angels all over the yard...
...here is one of her many snow angels!Drew went over to help Miss Lisa shovel her driveway...or talk her ear off...whichever! He thought this picture was funny because Sophie is mid-jump and she looks like she is off the ground!