Please see the link below for *recent* pictures (stick with me here, people, and go back in time a couple of months).
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The theme of this time period was snow, snow, snow, more snow...and snow days. Winter came late to Michigan, but when it started snowing, it never really stopped. Between January 28th and February 28th, Megan had FOUR snow days! (For you non-math folks, that's an average of about one per week) Throw in mid-winter break in mid-February, and there wasn't a whole lot of kindergarten happening during this timeframe. And though it threw a major wrench in Mom's work schedule week after week (after week), I'd be lying if I said I didn't get as excited as she did when we heard school was cancelled for the day. We had a lot of fun, and made some new traditions, such as going out for a late breakfast. Ironically Megan's favorite thing was the time she ended up in my office for three hours when we got caught off guard by a snow day, but I'm sure as time goes on she will become less enamored with office life.
As we were knee-deep (literally) in the stuff, it is fortunate that the kids love the snow as much as they do. Even Mom begrudgingly embraced its existence eventually, and we enjoyed a few fun nights outside, making forts and sledding down the cliff that is our driveway (this is a very convenient sledding hill for lazy folks who hate cold weather, as it turns out).
Hannah made some great strides in the potty training movement, and Megan took her reading expertise up a notch - independently reading to Hannah, Mom, Dad, our pets, etc. It snowed. We continued to count down the days until our annual girl's trip to Florida to escape the never-ending winter, and cursed the Groundhog and his blatant lies and broken promises for an early spring. It continued to snow just to spite us.
And there you have eight weeks of our life, in a nutshell.
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