Wintery Duck Pond

Snowman Fred

Henry has recently been pointing out snowmen on our drive home from daycare every day. He decided that we also needed a snowman at our house. I was really excited with the project and personally had visions of a snowman around 4-5 feet that towered over Henry. I knew it would take a while to make, so I started on the project during Henry's nap. Unfortunately the snow from our most recent snowfall is quite dry, and not great packing snow. After spending around 1 hour on rolling together a snowball that was not quite the size of what I had envisioned for the middle section of the snowman I knew I was either in for an all night project, or just needed to accept defeat on my first snowman challenge in 25 years and adjust... so, this is our snow blob, Fred! (Needless to say, Henry was just as excited about Fred as he would have been about the perfect snowman I had envisioned).

Our Valentines

Birthday party

We had a fun time celebrating Henry's 3rd birthday with friends at the Minneapolis Firefighters Museum. Henry and his friends were able to play in and on old fire trucks, demonstrate a bucket brigade and slide down a fire pole (in addition to being completely terrified by the docent giving us the tour whom very bluntly told them that if they were to catch on fire and did not "stop, drop and roll" might be severely injured or die). Henry and Lucas have also been very excited that cousin Jon came to spend the weekend with us and join in the festivities from Chicago.