Thursday, January 31, 2019

End of January

Well this has been an unusual week for us. It started Monday with a snow day off from school and then proceeded with three more days off for cold days! The temperatures have been around -26 with -50 for windchill. Crazy cold weather! They even stopped the mail services from coming yesterday and closed down the University so that my Dad had the day off work too. The good news is that it will finally be warming up again tomorrow and we will have temperatures in the 40s by this weekend. Oh the extreme weather of living in Minnesota! 

We have enjoyed our unexpected extra family time this week and we have stayed warm indoors. We have played many games, read books together, put together puzzles, and watched movies. We even shared some hot chocolate today in honor of National Hot Chocolate Day!





The kids were excited about the snow day!



This is how Eli felt when we told him he had more days off this week! He was a happy boy.


Greta was thrilled to have Nana watch her dance at ballet class last week.


Asa's penguin picture he made at preschool.


Asa's picture made with fruit loops.


Asa's class read the book The Mitten and they all climbed inside a giant mitten to be like the animals in the book.


Asa putting together words.


Asa and a friend doing bubble painting.


Eli continues to rock his spelling tests! 


Greta drew a self portrait of herself. She does a great job!!


Saturday, January 19, 2019

Mid January

We have been enjoying January! Greta has started her ballet class and she loves it! She jumped right in and did all of the ballet moves with the other girls. One of the other moms said to me that Greta is leading the group! She is a natural dancer. 


Eli building a tall Lego tower.


Asa's glitter glue picture. 


Eli with his Starry Night art project he made at school.


Eli's glitter glue picture.


Eli has been rocking his spelling tests each week.


Ballerina Greta!


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Mommy and Greta went out for a lunch date after ballet class at Panera Bread.


We did a whole family adventure shopping trip at IEKA! The kids did awesome and we got some sweet furniture for our house.


Skating on our pond! The pond was smooth as glass.




Greta likes to dress up, just as I did as a little girl. Love her!


Pictures of Asa at Preschool

Here are the pictures of Asa that his teacher sent us from preschool. He loves preschool and he is in a reading group. 





They got to wear Christmas pajamas for their Christmas party!

















Earlier in the fall he went on a field trip to the Wargo Nature Center to make apple cider. 




Driving cars in the gym!