Happy Birthday Dr Seuss!

Speaking of theme weeks... This week Nate's school (and every other school in the country) celebrated Seuss Week in honor of what would have been the 109th birthday of Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr Seuss) on March 2.

First up - Monday - Crazy Hair Day

So sad.

Mia showing him how it's done

Nate didn't really want to do anything for Crazy Hair Day. I tried to show him some cool pictures of other kids with crazy hair. There was green hair with a bunch of bugs crawling through it, and we were going to do something like that with sharks or dinosaurs (see the dinosaur in his hair in that picture). He got excited about it for a second, but then he decided he just wanted to play with them. So we decided to just do green hair in his regular style.

Then came - Wednesday - Crazy Hat Day

Went to school like this

Came home like this!

Obviously his hat is not that crazy, but he was excited about it because it had dinosaurs on it, so I was just happy he was more into it.

And finally - Friday - Crazy Sock Day

ROOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!

Again, the socks aren't that crazy, but we mismatched them, and at least they have some sort of design. I did try to get him some crazy socks, but the store I went to didn't have any for little boys. Lame! Again, he was pretty excited about this - and can you guess why?

In the end, I think he had fun this week at school. And obviously something stuck because when he went to the bank with Grandpa Friday afternoon he asked her if she knew that it was Dr. Seuss's birthday. (She did!)

Unexpected Snow Fun

So, yesterday when I looked at the weather to see what kind of weekend to expect I saw that there was a 10-50% chance of a rain/snow mix until about 5pm today. Well, the last two times, and only times this winter really, that we have expected snow or ice things have gotten blown completely out of proportion. Seriously, three weeks ago was ice-mageddon! Except it wasn't. We got nothing and everyone wasted an emergency trip to the grocery store. So, when I saw that chance of a rain/snow mix for today I figured it would be more on the rainy side and didn't think anything of it. 

At around 3:30 I looked outside and saw it precipitating - maybe a mix, but most definitely on the rainy side. Then about 5 minutes later I looked outside and everything had a pretty good layer of snow on it and it was coming down pretty fast. I ran upstairs to Nate's room (he was having "quiet time" since he no longer really naps) and opened his blinds so he could see. We just sat there and watched it for a few minutes until there was enough on the ground for us to be able to go out and play. Mia woke up just as Nate was getting dressed (yeah, he was still in his pajamas at 4pm - don't judge me!) so we all got bundled up and headed out.

It's coming down pretty good

I'm not sure about this...

What to do first?

This is snow fun!

We went to the front yard and had a mini snow ball fight and even started
to build a tiny little snowman. Then Nate knocked him over.

"Thank you snow!" - Nate

 Mia really didn't seem to mind the snow and was doing a  pretty
good job of exploring. And then, she was done!

I got Nate to come inside with the promise of hot chocolate! YUM!

And then we just sat around and watched the snow come down.

I'm glad we don't get it that often, but it is definitely pretty when we do.

Daycare Overachievers

Over the last few weeks Mia's daycare has introduced color weeks as a way to help them learn their colors. They wanted the kids to wear as much of the color of the week as possible even if it was just  part of the pattern of the shirt or on a sock. They started with blue week. We didn't know about it on Monday (Peter had picked her up the previous Friday), so when I found out about it I was a little upset that we missed day one. So when I dropped her off on Tuesday she was pretty much all blue. The teachers said they loved that we got so involved and that we got the parent participation award for the year!

Little did they know, I take theme weeks very seriously!

After blue week, came red week! We had this one down, no problem! (Thanks Cousin Kat/Aunt Katie!) 

Tuesday (she wasn't there on Monday.

Wednesday

Thursday - see, even my shoes are red!

Friday - she was taking medicine because the day before she was
sent home with a fever that, I'm pretty sure, was due to teething. 

 This week's color is yellow, and unfortunately, we have not done so well. I searched through every article of clothing and we had, maybe, two or three things that yellow was even remotely involved in. Oh well! We'll do better next week. (I think the color wheel goes to green!)