snowed in: days 3 and 4

Is this beginning to sound like a broken record yet?  It is to me!  Well days 3 and 4 weren't much different than days 1 and 2. I still felt yucky and Addi was still running circles around me. 

Playing in the sink worked so well the first time, I thought we'd give it another whirl! 

Yep...she loved it.  Again. 

Aunt Shelby and Jacob came over and gave this mommy a much needed break!  THANK YOU!  I didn't go anywhere but my bedroom and it was wonderful.

Scott left town on Friday morning so it was just us two girls roughing it.  Not really. 

We just popped some popcorn and watched movies all night.  Like we hadn't already watched every movie we own 12 times or something.  The popcorn was a fun twist and of course Addi loved her special popcorn bucket!  Who wouldn't? 

**UPDATE**

I've had a few people ask where I got Addi's popcorn bucket.  It's a funny story really (huh, mom?) but I ended up just stumbling upon them at the Target One Spot.  I see them there all the time...in fact, they have some now!  Hurry!  Go get some!  Your kids will thank you!!

Saturday we had big plans and company so life started becoming a little more normal.  More on our weekend coming later this week.

Tomorrow is a BIG day for us!  We get to find out what we're having!! Check back Tuesday night!!

snowed in: day 2

Well I can't say that I didn't have enough time last week to blog about being snowed in, huh?  Addi so lovingly shared her germs with me while we were cooped up so I was pretty puny last week.  Every second I had free, I was asleep.  Our house paid for it too!  Talk about a total disaster area!  WOW! 

I did manage to snap some pics of Addi but we didn't get very creative.  I had pretty big plans for us each day, but those all went out the window when I chose to rest instead of do fun things.  Poor Addi was so sick of me by the weekend!

She spent a lot of time in her princess tent watching movies in front of the fire.  I'm proud to say that neither of us changed out of our jammies all week either.  That never happens around here, but it did last week!

Sweet Addi has loved sharing with the baby lately, which absolutely warms my heart (except for the time she followed up her offer to share by saying, "then I poke it's eye, mama").  While playing with stickers, she wanted to share with the baby.  How sweet is that?!? 

She also shared her stickers with the baby last week when we left Dr. Stacy's office.  Those stickers are huge and I forgot they were on my belly and I paraded through Hobby Lobby with 3 HUGE My Little Pony stickers on my belly.  Thanks Addi.

Finally Daddy got home and we ventured out into the snow! 

She couldn't get in her pink chair by herself so Daddy came to the rescue. 

Easy as 1...

2... 

3!

oops! 

Look at those pretty blue skies! 

Checking things out... 

 

Watching Daddy make a snow angle.

 

But this is how it ended. 

Cold and wet. 

snowed in: day 1

Oklahoma had a HUGE snow storm and we were snowed in today!  Scott made it to work for a little while, but thankfully came home early.  Addi and I didn't leave the house at all...we didn't even go outside!  There are snow drifts all around our house that are several feet deep and the windchill is in -14 right now.  Hopefully the wind will die down tomorrow so we can at least go play for a few minutes. 

We played just about everything I could come up with and then I got creative.  I pulled out a huge piece of butcher paper and let Addi go to town coloring it.  My original plan was to have her lay on it so I could trace her outline, but she didn't think that was a very good idea.  She had the entire piece of paper to color on and she just used the little part right in front of her.  Oh well!

Then we rolled up her sleeves and put her slick apron on.  I filled up the sink with soapy warm water and I kid you not, she played for over an hour!! I had to refill the sink twice with warm water because it kept getting too cold.  She had a ball with the different cups and scrub brushes I gave her! 

She finally decided she was hungry for lunch and that it was time to finish up, but told me that she wanted to do it again tomorrow.  No problem Addi.  I promise!

That was a super easy way for her to play.  It was a little wet and messy, but I just threw the multiple towels in the washer when we were through.

Once Scott made it home, we sent him out for a huge bowl of snow so we could make snow ice cream!

Snow Ice Cream

1 gallon snow 

1 c. sugar 

1 T. vanilla 

2 c. milk 

Mix it up and enjoy!

YUMMY! 

The University is closed again tomorrow and so is Addi's school.  I'm not sure what tomorrow will bring, but I'm sure we'll have fun!

Stay warm, wherever you are!