Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Next Best Thing to Snow










OK, so it wasn't nice, soft Canadian snow. But it did provide for some interesting science experiments to see how ice is formed, and how it melts. Yes, that is Liam holding a huge, dangerous looking piece of ice he managed to pry off the slide. So we couldn't make a snowman. It was still interesting. And school was cancelled. Woo-hoo (for them...not so much for me).


I'm including a picture of the grill, because that is what it looked like this morning, and yet by evening Jim was out there grilling up some chicken for my Chipotle-restaurant style tacos. Way to brave the elements Jim! (He approved of the tacos, by the way. Not Chipotle, but close enough to warrant grilling in the freezing cold).

A new development recently has been Natalie's interest in the computer. I made the mistake of finding a website with My Little Pony games on it. Good news is that within a day she was using the mouse like a pro (nothing more annoying than trying to help a toddler use the mouse before they are ready). She will even grab my arm and remove it from the mouse if she thinks I'm overstaying my welcome when I help her get to the game section. Bad news is that now she bugs me all the time to "pewter". Maybe I have set a bad example, because she did tell me the other night that she couldn't sleep because she could hear me "pewtering". I am thinking of submitting "pewter" as a new verb for "working on the computer".

Anyway, it was a day when she took too long of a nap, so she was having a hard time going to bed. She came out of her room and demanded to know what I was doing on the pewter, because I was too loud. Excuse me for my extra loud typing when I blog...I will have to try and type more quietly. And I will remember to keep that nap to no longer than an hour from now on.

Trip 1 News: None. I think our agency was shut today with all the terrible weather everywhere. Rumor boards are empty. I am still thinking about it every second. Every.single.second.

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