Snow Day

Sometimes I really miss winter. I do remember those days when it was so cold walking around NY that I felt like my ears would fall off, but I also remember that feeling you get when the snow first starts falling and everything is covered in a beautiful white blanket. This would also make me even more excited when it would happen around Christmas and the Christmas lights would make it all the more beautiful. I wish I could see the boys faces as they played in the snow. Adam loves reading about snowmen and snow and winter. I wonder what he would do in actual snow. And Malcolm was in the sandbox this weekend for the first time and he was so excited.

Here is Adam before and during the one and only snowstorm we experienced. Thank you Detroit and Ley family 🙂 Oh baby winter clothes, is there anything cuter! How I miss you! Ok this hodgepodge outfit may not be the best but Adam was still cute in it.

Last weekend Typhoon Ruby came to the Philippines. Typhoon days remind me of snow days. This is mostly because we’re in a very safe area where little flooding happens and our building has a generator so we are very very lucky to not have as much fear as many people when a typhoon is near. Typhoon Ruby was a total dud in Manila and thankfully there was hardly even any rain, but we got a Typhoon day none the less. The Embassy was closed on Monday and we mostly stayed in the house just in case wind and rain picked up.

What to do with two little one in the house all day you ask? Well, blocks amused us for quite a while. It’s amazing how many times a toddler can build and know down a tower. And how many times Malcolm can try to crawl over to knock over same tower instead of the one I built him. I kept reminding Adam about No Fits Nilson (inside child book joke) but he didnt’ seem to get the irony.

The scene of the crime

Biding his time, waiting to make his move.

Meanwhile unsuspecting building proceeds.

Construction is successful

Malcolm goes in for the kill.

The last minute full body block.

Success! Followed by Adam knocking over his tower two seconds later.

Moving on, wardrobe change (can’t remember why but assuming watermelon, yogurt, egg, fill in the blank,

ended up on our shirt) or mommy was trying to pretend it’s winter and long sleeves were necessary.

We were tasked to make winter ornaments for Adam’s Holiday Party at school. So we set about gluing on some cotton balls to make a snow wreath.

Someone really loves arts and crafts! And was also given a sweater for our fake snowstorm.

We made these for our Christmas tree using the boys thumbrpints. Super cute. And I love that it’s their thumbprints that make the reindeer face. Growing up my mom always had ornaments that we had made when we were younger and I loved putting them on the tree. I can’t wait until the boys are older and excited to hang their ornaments. We’re also lucky that Grandma Gertch sends them ornaments with their names on them every year so the boys have a growing collection.

Then to take it up a notch and because we started getting a little stir crazy we pulled out the reindeer ears. Adam didn’t last long but we managed to get a couple pictures of Malcolm before he tore his off.