March Like a Champion

A couple weeks ago, our family did the March of Dimes' March for Babies in Kansas City. We were supporting some close friends whose baby was born 2 years ago at 24 weeks. Today, he is a happy, healthy, troublemaking two-year-old. We had a great day with all the festivities!

We did it again

2000 miles in the minivan!
From this:

to this:

Ahhhh. The drive honestly feels like nothing. Not while you're doing it, I guess, but in retrospect. We do it over 2 days. Day 1, we left at 2 PM and drove to Memphis. We got there around 11 PM. The next day, we left around 8 AM and arrived at the beach around 5 PM. With the early daylight savings, we even got to put on swimsuits and walk on the beach that very night which made it all worthwhile. We spent lots of time playing in the sand, the surf, the pool, the hot tub; we took naps a'plenty; we ate seafood almost every meal; we ate ice cream even more; and we had a blast. Wish spring break could last all year!

Happy happy happy

Oh, to be almost three, and THIS happy.

Child labor made this happen

In my never-ending quest to be the world's best snow shoveler, I made a discovery this winter. They have a display at the grocery store the day before there's snow in the forecast. Every time. The display must be on wheels. Anyway, it's some sort of magic chemical that you sprinkle on your driveway when you shovel. Well, I happened to go to the store CHILD-FREE the day before our last storm, and so I took advantage of the blissful quiet unrushed time to actually read the label. It suggested sprinkling it on the driveway either pre-snow or with a light dusting. I threw caution (and my $3.95) to the wind and bought a bottle.

Holy moly, it worked! I'm a convert. I shoveled in my usual shoddy way and when I came out an hour later, the driveway was totally melted. Yay for chemicals and technology.

Since we've no place to go

We had a New Year's Eve snowstorm -- just enough for sledding:

My big two love love LOVE the snow. Truck? Not so much. He's more of a sit-inside-and-drink-cocoa type. He did catch a few on his tongue though.

Be a Light

This song has helped me today. We came home, made challah, let the kids have seconds on grape juice, lit candles, opened presents, and let them take too long in the bath (yes, with bubbles tonight). What can you do?

Over the river and through the woods

Sunday it was 70, which was amazing, so we took a bike ride through the "forest park" by our house:


Well, two people rode. One locomoted on his Spiderman scooter.


It was just spectacular. Hard to believe that in a month, everything will be cold and brown til spring!