Snow day prep

With temperatures in the 40's we had to take the opportunity to get outside before the next round of bad weather comes through tomorrow (predictions call for freezing rain, ice followed by 6-10 inches of snow). I figured we needed to get some more cold weather playing practice while we can!

Pictured are the slowly shrinking snow cave (previously built snow tunnel and snow house have all disappeared) and William's special snowman friend!! The snowman was quite the job as it took about all the remaining snow in the front yard to build.

Sunday afternoon instruction

This week's topic: bones are important

Sunday morning trains

Will

Remind me to come back and tell you about William's preference regarding his name.

I went today to pick William up from preschool and the teacher motioned me over. She finished up her conversation with another parent and then turned to me. She directed my attention to the art hanging on the classroom door. The bottom half of the door was filled with white construction paper pages. The pages had a black line running across it and every child in the class had attempted writing their names with varying degrees of success. She pointed at one and said: "Here's William's!" The paper was scrawled with the recognizable letters W I L L.

Apparently during instruction, William decided he was only going to write "Will" on his paper (he is very capable of writing all the letters). The teacher talked it over with his and discovered when he writes his name, he wants to only write Will. He still wants everyone to call him William. If someone else is writing out his name, he wants them to write WILLIAM. But, if he has to do it? He's only going to write Will.

Pajama day

1/27 was pajama day at William's preschool. It took a lot of convincing to get him into some clean pajamas to wear to school. I finally had to dress Amelia in her jammies also. Then, he finally got his pjs on with a lot of grumbling. He was further confused about why I wasn't wearing pjs to school ( I was working).

Snow play

We so rarely get any amount of snow - we have to get out and play in it when opportunity knocks! This was 1/19 or 1/20. Again, Amelia wasn't very interested and William just couldn't get enough.

Angel?

Kind of looks like it here, doesn't it?