Hello Snow...again and again..

It snowed again...and by snowed again I mean in addition to the snow that has been on the ground for more weeks (months!?) than I care to remember. This weeks snow was heavy, wet and slushy. The picture below shows what is becoming a common occurance past our house...the snow plow!  

Last nights snow made for a pretty picture but I have to be honest...I am so OVER winter! The white is pretty but I'm ready to be done with the snow, the ice, the snow pants, the snow mittens....

It was beach week at Anna's school this week so and since she missed a day since I didn't feel comfortable driving I dug through some of my old teacher supplies and found my ocean painting stamps...

First the ocean animals...

followed by painting the blue ocean!

 An Anna original masterpiece! 

We did get outside for a little while to play where Anna climbed to the top of the snow mountain in front of our house. She was very proud of herself for getting to the top all by herself....and the fact that she wanted to climb to the top came as no surprise since lately she has been saying when she grows up she wants to be a mountain climber! Hmmmm...I wonder where she got that idea???

After our snow adventure Anna and I enjoyed this Lemon Yogurt Bread. I have become obsessed with Mel's Kitchen Cafe blog...at least once a week I make a recipe from her website. This week we made this Lemon Yogurt Bread and Anna and I have quickly devouered it...enjoying it after breakfast, lunch, dinner and sometimes stealing bites when just walking past. Yummy!

 

Anna also makes me laugh every day with the things she says. Yesterday she was pretending to be Anna Fairy Godmother. She was pretending her drumstick was her magic wand and she asked me what I wanted. I asked her to make the snow go away. Anna went to the window, waved her wand and said Abbra Cadadbra! Then she looked at her wand and looked at me very serious and said, "Hmm....Mommy my pretend magic isn't working."

And at least once a week Anna likes to tell us about the things that will happen when she gets older. She'll be taller, She'll be four! But her favorite? Her bum will be big like Mommy and Daddy's! Of course Mommy's "big" bum came in handy when I slipped on the ice a few weeks ago...sometimes a little extra padding comes in handy!

 



And the Oscar goes to.....

And for cutest 5 month old baby the Oscar goes too.....Matilda!

She wins in the catagory of cutest big lip pout...

cutest happy face...

cutest look at me looking at you adoringly...

Just simply the cutest 5 month old baby there is!

 



Ready, Set, Sled!

 Last weekend we took Anna to the park for a little sledding. The snow from a couple of weeks before still hasn't melted combined with a new 4 inches of snow made for a perfect sledding day!

 

 And they're off! 

 Wheeeee!!! (Anna's word on the way down)

After the sledding we had to go for a swing

 Anna loves to go as high as possible....or as high as Daddy will push her before Mommy yells, "That's high enough!"

But her new favorite thing to do on the swing is to lean backwards as far as she can go

 Does Anna love it? Yes. Does Alastair find it amusing watching Anna lean back? Yes. Did it almost give me a heart attack watching her lean back? Yes!

 

Sweet Treats and Happy Hearts

Valentine's day was more like Valentine's week for us. It's always good to have things planned to do and who can resist doing things with a theme of pink and red hearts? Give me a theme and I'll run with it...and after all we did for Valentine's day I feel like I've run a marathon...okay maybe just a 5K. It was fun and it was worth it but now I need a nap...and then I'll start planning for Easter...and St. Patricks Day...hmmm...I see rainbows and pots of gold in our future.... 

We started with heart shaped cookies...

 and used the extra dough to spell Anna's name....any excuse to practice our letters!

 Anna's favorite...the decorating of the cookies!

Then we did my new favorite..we made pink chocolate X's and O's

 We also made milk chocolate X's and O's but those were eaten before a picture could be taken!

 The perfect on top of ice cream treat!

Next we made Valentine's for our school friends. I decided we would make our Valentine's this year instead of buying them so we made flower hearts with a lollipop center!

 And to go with our flower heart Valentines we made heart crayons

On Wednesday Anna had her school Valentine's Day Party

 What would Anna have first...a lollipop of course!

Finally it was Valentine's Day! Matilda wore the same top Anna did on her first Valentine's Day...and if you guessed the baby on the left is Matilda then you are correct!

We started the day with some sisterly love and Valentine giggles

Followed by a special Valentines breakfast of heart shaped french toast filled with strawberries and Nutella...Yummmmmy!

 A Valentine's treat for Daddy

For dinner I attempted to make a heart shaped pizza. I was quite proud of myself and thought it looked like a heart. Then I showed it to Anna and she said it wasn't a heart it was the letter Y!

 No Valentine's Day dinner is complete without cupcakes

After dinner we gave the girls their Valentine gifts...a book for Matilda...

 

And a piggy bank for Anna! We also gave her some coins to put in her piggy bank...after she put them in Anna said, "More money please!" Hmmmm....I think the scots in her is coming out! 

But she may have liked her red heart balloon more than anything else!

 

Daddy and his girls!

Happy Valentine's Day! Hope everyone's hearts were as happy as ours were!