Miscellaneous December

Here is a post of many random fun things we have done in the last month and a half or so...  Sorry it is long.  I promise this is the abridged version.

Playdough

Trips to the park (some with friends)

LOTS of playtime outside in the snow.  We had snow on the ground for a long time.

Snow mowing

Robot snowman

Austin attacking the computer.  He loves anything with buttons, and seems to very quickly figure out how to turn things off...

Loads of art projects

Playing up at NCAR

We were restless and headed to the zoo despite a prediction of a huge snowstorm hitting that day.  The zoo was deserted.   I have never parked so close (about 4 cars from the entrance) or seen so few people there.  It was marvelous.  It meant that I could let both boys run as free as they wanted and not worry about them getting run over by strollers or swept into school groups.  It was a little chilly but we bundled up and had a great time.  Thankfully, the huge snowstorm didn't start until that afternoon.

One night we were heading to bed and started to hear a funny sound.  We soon discovered that it was a leak dripping from our ceiling near our front door.  Argh!  Luckily I had been lazy and left my running shoes by the front door, which it was dripping onto, or I don't know that we would have heard it and found it that night.  We drilled a few holes to help water drain out and into a bucket instead of spreading through the ceiling.  Apparently our roof needs some work...  We think it is from our lack of insulation, so when snow is sitting on the roof it melts along the roof with snow still on top and sits there because the rain gutters are frozen...

We knew there was some kind of problem recently from the horrible ice on our front step.  Cal's done a couple of things that have helped a lot, but we'll still need to get it fixed.  This is all ice and quite thick.

Zach and Cal built a huge snow fort in our front yard from the big storm.  He was so proud of it!