Snow day...and decorating...

Yesterday, we got an additional foot of snow on top of the 4-5 inches we had the day before.  And that was in addition to the already 1 1/2 - 2 feet we already had laying on the ground!!  The snow seems to like to come down in the early morning hours, thus not giving the plow trucks time to clear the road for busses and cars.  Luckily, I checked the night before if they were going to close school and then everyone slept soundly in their bed until Parker awoke at his normal 7:00-ish.  It felt good to get a few extra minutes of sleep!

So...since the day before was "baking day" and I had had enough of that, I decided that a snow day would be a great day to have my kids help me make a couple Valentine decorations.  I have had these ideas swirling in my noggin all whilst cleaning and purging my house.  (which, I am happy to report is pretty much DONE!  oh if feels so fabulous to feel more organized and dejunked!  Goodwill got a nice big donation on Monday!) 

Anyway - I didn't even remember to take pictures while we were making them.  They seemed to take a lot longer to finish and kids were getting bored.  So, I had to keep redirecting and helping them have fun and try to keep them interested, all while Parker threw our paper pieces on the floor about 10 times for his own entertainment (and to make us laugh...teasing again!)  The kids are very proud of their hard work and so am I!  It was fun to have 3 little crafty helpers!!

These aren't the best pictures, but here is what we created... (these are the windows right by the kitchen table)  That big ole' heart took pretty much forever to finish!  Remember doing those tissue paper crafts in elementarty school?...

Can 1 year old's really lie?

Parker came into me the other day without his glasses on. 
I said, "Parker, where are your glasses?"
His response, "Chloe took them!"
I asked Chloe if she took his glasses and she said, "No, he just brought them over to me."
So I ask...do 1 year old's (soon to be 2) really lie?  If so, it is still pretty cute to me!

A couple days later, he again came over to me without his glasses on. I asked him again,
"Parker, where are your glasses?" (a phrase he has heard SO many times, but luckily isn't hearing it so much anymore.  Or shall I say...before his glasses broke this past weekend)
He said as he walked toward the pantry cupboard,
"In the snack bucket!"

Usually he can always tell me where his glasses are, as long as I ask him soon after I notice them being off.  He has started being a little bit more sneaky though and hiding them in places I wouldn't think to look - such as the bucket with a bunch of hot wheel cars or behind things.  Since he hasn't had his glasses since Saturday, he has asked me almost daily where they are.  I told him they were at the shop getting fixed and asked him if he wanted to wear them - to which he would reply yes.  So, hopefully, he is really noticing that they really are helping some and will want to wear them more often.

On a side note though...his glasses are only doing part of the job.  His eyes are not as bad, but still going somewhat cross-eyed.  So we have a couple more months to try to work with them some more and strengthen them.  If at the end of March that doesn't seem to be helping, his dr. has recommended him for surgery to fix the muscles that are pulling his eyes inward.  I am not sure what approach yet we want to take for him.  Surgery is a scary thing, but yet, if that is the thing that will help him - then we might have to do that.  I would love to NOT though if we could.  We shall see!

Be NICE!!

So, of course Chloe is sitting at the dinner table...alone.  This seems to be a daily occurance because the girl is usually talking SO much that everyone finishes before she does.  Everyone has been done for nearly 20 minutes and she is still there...eating....AND talking.  Sometimes I wonder where she got it from!  When we say, "Chloe, put a bite in," she usually pauses her sentence or song for a brief split-second and then starts in again like we never even said anything.  It is kind of like when she has something on her mind, everything else just sounds like "blah, blah, blah!" and she is still thinking about what she was talking or singing about.

Parker has decided to join her at the table.  He loves his "girlfriend" (one of my many nicknames for her that he has picked up on too) and so now she has someone to talk to instead of singing and talking to herself.  He was perched up on the chair next to her, banging something on the table.  It really annoyed her so she asked him to stop.  Since he knew that would bother her, and he loves to do that (yes, already at 2 years old, he knows how to get a rise out of his sister). 

So finally after asking him a bunch of times, she got right up in his face and said, "Parker!  The world is full of NICE people - so you need to be NICE!"  Parker's response...bang the table again!  hahahaha!  I love listening to them talk!  I just wish that more food was consumed while the talking and singing were happening! (Not at the same time, of course!)
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One more cute comment from Chloe to Parker tonight...
"Parker, do you want to originate?  Do you know what originate means?  It means, Let's trade!"