Wordless Wednesday: Southern Snow Day

Linked to Wordless Wednesday at Mama to 4 Blessings , Crazy About my BayBah, and 5 Minutes for Mom

Christmas 2010

Opening presents

Experiencing firsts

Trashing the living room

Being girly

New toys

White Christmas

Snowballs

and snowmen

White day-after-Christmas

snowflake catching

Snow angels

More firsts

On the mend....

It's been an awful week around here....a solid week of puking, no energy, no eating, fevers and dehydration. My house smells too much of carpet cleaner- enough to make me nauseous at least. I haven't slept without a child and without interruption since last Saturday night. Hopefully tonight I will.

Cale got sick last Saturday night and missed much of the snow we had here on Monday. He was bad off and disoriented most of Monday. Lakin got hit Tuesday night and Cohen Wednesday morning. He had a rough day yesterday with 104+ fever and still vomiting. His lips were so dry and cracked they were bleeding. He finally got off the couch and ate with us tonight and seems mostly himself. A good night sleep should do it. Thankfully, Rylan seems to have outgrown the stomach bug age. Paul, Rylan and myself all felt a little sick, nauseated and lower appetites but that is all.

And since Cale woke up on Tuesday in relatively good spirits, and there was snow on the ground we headed up to the moutains. We had about 2 inches in our yard, so it was a little odd that the closer we got to the mountains, the less snow there was....but by the time we reached Cades Cove there was a decent amount- probably about the same 2 inches. But the day was beautiful and sunny. We played in the snow, snowball fights, made snow angels, visited the mill. It was a nice day. And I am also thankful that Lakin waited until about an hour after we got home before he threw up! My camera died (again!) about 5 min. into our trip, so all my pictures are on my phone and I can't get them uploaded...

But here is Rylan and Cohen's snowman....they were so excited on how big they got him!

Snow Day....

It's been cold here. Really cold. Finally today it snowed, and that makes the cold okay. It's been hard to get everyone concentrating on school the past week, since our school room is unheated and the space heater just couldn't keep up with 20 degree highs. We've moved to the dining room table and keeping the younger 2 occupied with most of the toys in the frozen room has been difficult. Today the distraction was the flurries outside the window. It was okay when they were just flurries but when big fluffy flakes started to fall all was lost.
"Mom, can we call daddy and tell him it's snowing?" (Rylan)
" Can I just go on the deck and see if I can catch one with my tongue?" (Cale)
"Look!! Mommy!!It's a big snow!!" (Cohen)
"no! no! no" (as in snow! snow! snow! Lakin)

So we went out for a few minutes...not all bundled up but enough...

But after lunch and quiet time they piled on the clothes....us southerners don't usually stock the snowsuits....so it was PJs under the clothes and socks for mittens.... Here's their attempt at at snowball fight....

After coming in for the must-have hot chocolate, they went back out. This time Lakin was awake and they had their hearts set on a snowman. Okay....more of a snow, mud and grass man....

They were so excited to actually use the snowman kit we received a few years back...

Its amazing how big the snowballs got considering what little snow was in the grass....good thing the dogs have given us a considerable amount of lawn with no grass growing. But Mr. Snowman has just fallen over and I am being asked to go repair him so they can show their dad when he gets home tonight....