Winter and New Options

I have been absolutely terrible at keeping up with totsites as of late, and then I let our subscription run out so we are out of picture space. Therefore, I am hoping this will be a better option that I will maintain with more regularity....

It has been a pretty middle of the road winter around here until recently (Washington DC had more snow than us??). Then yesterday, out of nowhere we got 10 very wet inches. We rushed into the snow before it got dark to play our hearts out. Gabriella is still uncertain about this whole snow thing. Walking is tough!!!!! At one point, she decided to just lie down and call it quits. Tomas had a blast, chasing his friends around and having his first snowball fight... What a blast, although the snow was so wet, they were more iceballs than snowballs (thanks goodness 3 and 5 year olds don't throw very hard!).

Tomorrow we are set to get MORE (12-18 inches)...so if anything needs to get done, it needs to happen today.

Our neighbor Michelle called this morning and said that a few moms were planning to go to the local bounce house place, so we headed over there to get some play time in before the real craziness hits tomorrow and we can't leave the house any more.

Gabriella is officially in love with the bounce houses. She is starting to jump (although falling is still very frequent) and she climbs up the ladders all on her own so she can go down the slide. It's fantastic to watch!

This is Tomas with his buddy from across the street, Owen. He loves playing with him, and here they are pretending to drive a race car. Owen is working the pedals and Tomas is steering. Watch out NASCAR, these guys are good! (There were no quarters in the machine. Only pretend here!)

Gabi was crawling in one of the play structures with some of the girls. In the second picture, I was trying to get Syrena, London and Gabi to get together for a picture. Gabriella just ended up hidden in the background.

Gabriella climbed into this ride and said, "Mommy!! Ba Ba Ba!!!" Translation: Mommy, Bob the Builder! This face is what she does lately when I ask her to smile. Cutie pie!!!!!!!!