Some snow and a play and peek-a-boo

Neil loves peek-a-boo.  He’ll even grab his shirt when I’m changing his diaper and pull it up and cover his face until I say Peek-a-boo.  He was playing with Ken while I was teaching my digital scrapbooking class and discovered the block bucket worked great too.When Neil sees you have the camera he starts squinting his eyes shut getting ready for the focus light that shines on him.  It looks like he might be sad, but he’s not.  It’s so CUTE!  “Ahhhhh….here comes that light again.”

You can see his bottom teeth and dimples in this last one.

Abbie and Spencer were bored one afternoon and so I convinced them to do a play for us.  They picked the Three Billy Goats.  They practiced while I cooked dinner and then after we ate put on their play.  Spencer told us before hand that we might hear a little whispering because he couldn’t remember all the lines and Abbie had to help him.  Here are the three billy goats.  Tiger is the littlest goat; duckie the middle goat and the alligator the biggest goat.  And here is the biggest goat knocking “King Troll” off the bridge.It was great fun and they even bowed at the end of our applause.

Rachel was dying to go sledding one more time this winter and it finally snowed enough last week.  The snow at the slope wasn’t packed down very well, so the ride was kind of slow, but we still had quite a bit of fun.  And we got to try out our new two person sled…but we always had more than two on it….Jessie wasn’t really good at the running and jumping on the sled, so she got a little help with the momentum at the top of the hill.Someone had built a enormous jump that was really steep.  Mark and Spencer went off it a couple of times.  I was waiting for Spencer to go flying through the air, but thankfully he weighed so little that he couldn’t throw the sled off balance.

A little surprise from Ken…..and they’re still looking good almost two weeks later!