Snow Days and Friends and Family

A snow filled week with a 2 hr delay on Monday and a snow day for Mommy on the kids on Wednesday.  Mommy visited with Ayson's class on Thursday and Ayson had a friend sleep over on Friday. Saturday and Sunday were spent playing inside and out :)

February: a heart shaped from Aysons hands :)


Monday 2-hr school delay means EGGS for breakfast!


Addie requested straight hair. Addie is smiling - so she said:)
























Wednesday was a snow day for the kiddos AND Mommy. The kids were supposed to have french toast sticks for lunch (at school) and were disappointed. So Mommy made french toast discs :)



Working on valentines for class




Watching the movie Shaun the Sheep :)


Checking for "life" (water from the fish tank).  Mommy told the kids that we need to let the tank get nice an green with algae:)




Mommy introduced Ayson to "Calvin and Hobbes" and let Ayson read Mommy's "Calvin and Hobbes" books :)  He could not stop reading.  He was supposed to be getting ready for bed but instead Ayson was standing in the hallway reading :)


Ayson set Sir Jacob up at the table to read.  Addie flipping the pages for Sir Jacob.


On Thursday, Mommy gave an interactive presentation on erosion and sedimentation to Ayson's 2nd grade class.  Mommy covered turbidity (water cloudiness - when the water looks like chocolate milk), smoothering (of bottom habitat and fish eggs/coral), and excess nutrient input leading to increased vegetation and algal blooms).


The kids had to scrape gummy treat packets out from under a blanket of sediment.


The kids had a cup of "clean" water and "algal bloom" water.  They then had to flip a coin three times and sip from either the clean or algal bloom cups.  The kids had a choice for the algal bloom water: koolaid, vegetable V-8, OR baby food peas :)  A majority of the kids wanted the baby food - hahaha.
Mrs Kolbeck spooning out baby food for another brave contestant.


Trying to locate the slippery gummy treats in a mess of "water weeds" (cooked/watery pasta) using only 1 finger to scoop the treats out.


A classmate of Ayson's drew this picture for Mommy :)




The kiddos also wrote thank you notes and three stated they wanted to be scientists!  Yes!!



Ayson's card to Mommy:






Friday night sleepover with Grady


The boys getting ready for bed


All three kiddos playing Mario Brothers


Burning of the tree


On Sunday morning, Ayson and Daddy went on an exploring adventure in the orchard.


They had fire


Hot coffee


shelter


and tons of fun!


Pama stopped by for a visit on Sunday!  Thanks for thinking of us, Pama!  We love you :)