And we're back... to Valentines Day

Charlie's Valentines Day started off like this:
This is what we made for Charlie's class:

Charlie helping:

At the end of the day, Charlie still has his stuffed animals in his hand. He hasn't put them down since!

Virus...

Our computer caught one over the weekend. Our hard-drive is now at the doctor for two weeks. (AKA: Best Buy) So, the blog will be down for a couple of weeks. Here's hoping all of our files are able to be saved.

Children's Museum

Patrick and I are always looking for fun, inside, cost-friendly, places to take Charlie on the weekends. If we all stayed in the house too long we'd drive each other nuts! The top two we have found are The Airplane Museum and, now, the Children's Museum at Fair Park. The first level wasn't all that great for his age, but downstairs was the bomb! Great activities for 2-5 yr olds!

Right now they are having a dinosaur exhibit. Which, truth be told, Charlie was really terrified of. We thought for sure that they would induce nightmares. They are so real looking!

He did enjoy digging for dinosaur bones, though.

And the huge water table was super enertaining.

But the BEST part, was dressing up like a fireman and playing in the firetruck!

I think we are entering the dress-up phase. Bring it on! It should be a fun one.

Any other recommendations for inside places to visit on the weekends?

Seems Appropriate

We are having yet another snow day in Dallas. All schools cancelled... again. Sounds fun, but when it comes time to make up the 5 days that we have missed so far, it won't be so fun anymore. Anywho, since there's snow I figured it's appropriate to show all of you Charlie's Santa pictures from this past Christmas. Here he is last Christmas:

Not a fan last year. And definitely not a fan this year either. In fact he wouldn't go near Santa without sitting on my lap. So:

And the family group shot:

Oh Snowy Days

Charlie was a HUGE fan of the snow. Here is a good picture of our street. So pretty!
Some of our favorite activities included sitting by the window watching the snow fall. This is where we at meals for snowy days.
We also made some yummy snow ice cream. Charlie LOVED it! Except that he kept taking his bowl and climbing out the doggy door to go eat more snow!
Here is Charlie throwing snowballs.

The neighbors made a snowman...
and so did we!!I can't wait for Charlie to be old enough to go sledding down Flag Pol Hill... that will be so fun.

Actual Snow???

Dallas has experienced crazy weather this week. We have been iced in for the past 3 days (going a little stir crazy trying to entertain Charlie for that long), but it might have been all worth it to wake up the 6-8 inches of snow that had accumulated this morning. We were supposed to just get 1-2 inches, but this was my view from the inside of our house this morning:



And from the outside:





It's lovely, but I am looking forward to it melting tomorrow! The other day Patrick went to Albertson's and started spinning out on ice trying to get up a hill to get back home. (The Albertsons is maybe 1 mile from our house btw.) A policeman was behind him and tried to push Patrick's car up with his car, but failed because he too started spinning out. They both had to reverse down the hill and find alternate routes.

Today, all of Patrick's (crazy) co-workers went into work. Patrick went in at 10:30am. At 11:30am I still hadn't heard from him. He called shortly after and said that it had taken him that long to travel the 5.4 miles to work. In route, he almost hit a telephone pole and then spun out in the middle of a busy intersection. Awesome! I'm going to go ahead and say it was completely not worth it to go to work today. Here's hoping for a safe return babe!

Crazy Weather

It's crazy that last week we were enjoying 75 degree weather at the Arboretum...

and today we are iced/snowed in at 17 degrees!