Funny boy!

Today I picked Alex up from preschool and was doing my usual "How was your day? Who did you play with? What did you make for a craft?" thing and when I asked him what he did at recess he says "I kissed Lily. And then I patted her on the head for a while."

After a very strong attempt at stifling a guffaw I said "You kissed Lily?" He repeated "Yeah, and then I patted her on the head for a while."

Normally he does this to Andrew after Andrew has been hurt or is sad so I said "Were you trying to make her feel better? Was Lily sad?" and he says with his voice dripping with exasperation "No, Lily is a girl. Girls are always happy."

That boy is in for the surprise of his life when he gets married!

Our Abe Lincoln

I had to share the hilarious thing that Alex said today when I picked him up from preschool. Today they talked about President's Day and what it meant. They learned all about George Washington and Abe Linclon and even made an Abe Lincoln mask. When I picked Alex up he put the mask up to his face and said in a booming voice "I am Abe Lincoln, KING of all the presidents!" Out of the mouths of babes...

My Sweethearts!

The night before last, my sweethearts were too cute and I just had to share! Alex was reading to Andrew and it was adorable! He got some of the words wrong in the story which made it even funnier!

Then on Wednesday last week, Allison and I went to see Kate Gosselin from the show "Jon and Kate Plus Eight" speak. We ended up in the standing-room-only area (next to a very crazy lady that kept screaming that she couldn't hear, by the way!) but it was still pretty cool to hear her. She was signing autographs afterward but my feet hurt too much to stand in the mile long line afterward!

Sledding

We took advantage of the still-voluminous snow on the the ground and headed over to Cool Creek Park for some big time sledding. Here is video of Nick and Andrew taking their first run of the day:

This picture was taken at the end of our sledding adventure and the boys were DONE! But the eternal scrapbooker in me just couldn't leave without an attempt at a group shot. Could Alex's smile be any more fake?!

Snow Day!

We got about 7 inches of snow last night so I took the boys out to sled down our driveway and to play in the snow. Yay snow days!

I couldn't resist taking this picture because it reminds me of the boys in A Christmas Story. Andrew is so bundled up he looks like Randy..."I can't put my arms down!"

Alex was so excited to be out in the snow that he took a header into a snow drift right away!

Lexie from across the street was so nice to take Andrew down our driveway a few times...he LOVED it and was grinning the whole way down!

Andrew, Jackson (from across the street) and Sophie (from catty corner across the street, also Andrew's "Intended"). Andrew and Sophie (or FiFi as Andrew calls her) were so happy to see each other and ran toward each other yelling each others names. Snowy love...

Alex is turning into a true little boy and spent much of his time outside throwing snow balls at people.

Karen, Sophie and Andrew at the end of a good slide down our driveway, which is the perfect incline for small-child sledding.

Our snowy fun had to end when Andrew kept taking his mittens off and refused to put them on again. Sophie was sympathetic but couldn't help because her mom had Velcroed her mittens on! We headed in after I took this picture and Andrew stopped crying, for all you who are thinking I'm a bad mother! :) We only stood and laughed at him for a little bit...