In Love With Snow

Painting for Valentine decorations.

 More Xs,Os, & hearts were hung from the light that didn't make it in the picture. 

I'm SO glad we got to experience 6 1/2 inches of snow in TN, since it won't happen again for another 20yrs (time since the last 'big blizzard').  Awesome.

So we decided to make the world's largest snowman.

 And a big fort in the backyard.

 With an enter and an exit. By the next day, the fort door had fallen shut, so they made another one all by themselves...total funness.

 Isaac made a big ball to sit on...and of course shoot stuff with his stick.  Do you see all the snow? Can you believe that by the next day, it was all gone....except for ruined remains of the fort and snowman.

Thanks to Aunt Tara for the dirt play dough recipe...we were able to enjoy this stuff for THREE hours....I kid you not. Isaac didn't move from that table until lunchtime. He raced cars, made caves, fought army guys, created construction sites, parted the red sea, acted out Otis and the calf story at mud pond, hid transformers, and who knows what else.  It's not only wonderful because it's dirt-like, but there is also coffee in it which makes it smell divine. 

Elias didn't last the entire time, but definitely enjoyed it too.

Elias got to play in rice by himself.  Cool things by himself don't happen too often.