Snow day and sledding

 Adrian

We are less than a week away from a 1-year old! He is very curious about everything from the moment he wakes up to when he goes down to bed. He points at things on the wall, towards rooms, and makes the cutest sounds to ask for things. I like that I can communicate with him and he understands when I ask things and can tell me yes or no by the way he sounds or reacts with smiles. He has been memorized by the laundry a lot of times and kept pointing at it so I tried putting him in to see what he thought about it. I think he was surprised he was able to go in there and luckily didn't try to move around because he probably would have made it move and got a little scared. He is already scared of our robot vacuum whenever he ventures into the pantry he yells at it and cries at me to come save him since if he looks away from the evil machine it would probably come after him...I think it's cute and funny, but I know it distresses him so I will sit just far enough away that he has to come to me.

Shay

We have another birthday coming up soon too! She has decided on the theme so I think this week is all about getting the decorations and invitations put together so she will be able to hand them out to friends at school in time. I'm excited because the last few parties I've planned have been much better and I think it will be great. She will also get to have Nana and Grandpa Cox here because they are flying in the morning of her birthday! This week I implemented an official chore chart that is attached to real money and the girls were excited that the chore they did on Friday got them 50 cents so they cleaned both bathrooms to each get a dollar. They were excited and sat down and stared at the first dollar they earned then compared them to see if they got the same thing. The simple rule of the chores for the first little bit is that I teach them and supervise them to check their work. I hope it will help them be ready to take care of themselves when they are older because now they need to pay tithing!

Claire

The first snow day of the year happened on Friday! We got a good 5 inches overnight and I woke up to a text that school was canceled so we had a relaxing morning. I was out starting to shovel when a lot of other neighbors were out too. We had some fun neighbors with 4-wheelers taking sleds behind them around the neighborhood and then a small hill close by was a good place for the girls to go sledding with Daddy. He had already planned to be off work for a half day so it was perfect because I do better shoveling the drive way and staying home to finish my puzzle. I've been working on it for a long time because I usually don't do such big ones and the girls are frustrated they couldn't find any pieces very easily. They liked that it was Cinderella though and seem to only get obsessed with whatever princess they recently thought about. We watched Aladdin on Friday and Claire is now dressing up like Jasmine all the time.