Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my wonderful family and friends. We love you!

Amazing new discoveries

Heidi has recently started rolling tummy to back, back to tummy, she has discovered her hands and most recently, her voice. Here is a little video of her "talking". She went on for another five minutes after I stopped recording. It was hillarious. She does it all the time too!

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

A tree branch in our front yard weighed down to the ground with ice.
Pine needles coated with ice

Our plant out front

Our grass

Everything had an inch of ice on it

Well, Leah's winter break started a week early. School was canceled every day last week. She was very excited until Friday when she realized there would be no holiday party and sing-along. We missed church again, but this time for a true fear of never making it home. We've had snow and ice and rain with random freezings and thawings in there. Now, growing up in Iowa I consider myself to be a competent driver in these conditions. The difference here is that I don't think this town (or the one next to it) owns a snow plow. Only a few people venture out each day so the snow on the streets gets packed down just enough to make it pure ice, but never enough to wear it off down to the pavement. So even I have been avoiding driving as much as possible. We have been planning on going up to Portland for Christmas, but we may have to revise our plans...I guess we'll see. Here are a few pictures of our latest ice storm. Enjoy!

Just noticing..

We've been so puzzled about who Heidi looks like and then I just saw this picture of Yaya...they are practically twins! Take a look. Who's who?

And the eggnog wasn't even spiked...

It all started with some christmas music, and then a three year old in a pretty dress...some ballerina twirls gone wrong and her head met with the corner of the fridge. But don't worry...she didn't get a drop of blood on her dress and was very happy to wear a butterfly bandage until we got it glued shut. Yaya thought I was putting a real butterfly on her head. She kept asking, "Where are the wings?"

Where are we?

The little town we live in has a "limited selection" of stores shall we say. The ones we frequent most often are WareMart, Bi Mart and Wal Mart. One night we ordered pizza for dinner and as we pulled into the parking lot to pick it up, Leah asked from the back of the van, "Where are we, Pizza Mart?" Not a bad guess!

Seriously?

We awoke this morning to a surprise "snowfall". Having spent the last winter in Iowa this was more of a "light dusting" in our book. Nonetheless...church was canceled even though all the snow had melted by the time it would have started at 11:30!

If at first you don't succeed...

Well, today was a milestone in little Heidi's life. She rolled over for the first time. She has become the new source of entertainment for her sisters. They find great pleasure in rolling her onto her stomach and watching her roll to her back. Then they all squeal with delight, laugh hysterically and then roll her onto her stomach again (repeat twelve hundred times). I was able to capture this glorious moment on film...enjoy.

In case you ever wondered about flubber...

If anyone out there in the blobbing world would like to read a completely pointless yet entertaining article...http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/flubber/flubber.html

Was that a "b" or a "g"?

Due to a typographical error, my blog has been referred to as a bloggity blob blog. I must admit this threw me into a fit of uncontrollable laughter! From this day forth, I shall refer to this method of communication, as blobbing...i need to update my blob...oh my gosh did you see her blob?...you get the idea!) And just to back up my decision with more than fourth grade silliness, Wiki says: Blobs were originally just amorphous chunks of data. So there you have it. Blob.