Kansas Sledding

Today London had her first experience sledding down a hill. She didn't enjoy it the first time down, but after the second time - the words out of her mouth were "more?"

This is our sledding hill - it's in one of the parks. If you go down the other side you have a good chance ending up in the creek. I remember that the first time you go down - you just make a bee line right up the hill - each time you get a little slower and slower. This has not changed since I am older and to boot I was carrying not only a sled but a 2 year old. Thank goodness for a light weight daughter!

Only my daughter

After and hour and half it was time to go. Time for lunch and a nap. By the way she has been sleeping for 2 1/2 hrs. I think we finally wore her out.

Sledding Videos

Here is a couple sledding videos

It's Snowed

It just plainly snowed in Kansas. No ice, no sleet, no rain, or 60 mile hour winds. Just SNOWED. This rarely happens in Kansas from my experience. I was surprised though how many people were "freaking out" over the amount - but it was just snow - not ice.

It was very pretty - watching it come down. We watched it all day at work. 7 inches was recorded out our patio at work.

When I left for work in the morning at the bottom of the stairs in the back, it had drifted - probably 10 inches or so. I wasn't too happy about having to shovel the steps and out to the jeep and then sweep everything off the hood of the jeep. Oh what - you are asking where my husband was?? he was in bed or just getting up. I "politely" told him "either get the garage cleaned out or you need to clean off the jeep for me."

Being the good wife when I got home from work - I did some shoveling for him and London and I played in the snow.

Are you serious? You want to do what? Ride your trike?

In the end she decided being pulled around the block on the sled was much more fun than riding the trike in the snow.

We then headed off to Augusta - to Frank and Amy's for game night. What? you are asking what the score is now? Men are down by two games! We spanked the guys last night and won all three games. We played a game called "things". It was a lot of fun and we had lots of lots of giggles going on. Thanks for a great night. By the way - the roads seemed to be better at Midnight than they were earlier in the day.

Pillow

I made a new cover for London's pillow. The one she was using was Christmas and decided it was time to change it. I made it out of left over scraps - some are from her bumper pads and quilt I made. She asked me what I was doing - so I told her. She was very excited it was for her. She did a little jiggy dance for me.

Exploration Place

Today we went to Exploration Place in Wichita. We haven't been there for quite while - the older 3 kids used to like going. We heard that they had a Mr Potato Head exhibit visiting and thought London might like it. At first she seemed a little overwhelmed with what to do and all the other kids around her. Once she got comfortable she seemed to enjoy the different activities.

This water/sand exhibit the kids always LOVED. They could of spent hours building dams and just playing in the water.

This was something new since we had last been there. It was a tornado tunnel. Once you went it the air would start slowly and the speed up giving up the feeling of being in a tornado. I surprised but London loved it. I don't know how many times we did it. You can see our hair flying around.

This last picture of London or me - we are showing our "Farah Fawcett" hairstyle look. Then I got my hair cut tonight - it sits at the top of my shoulders - haven't had my hair cut this short for a long time. I will try to post a picture tomorrow.

Diaper Boxes

London has always enjoyed playing in diaper boxes. The other night she decided to get in the box and go for a ride - courtesy of daddy.

January 2009 - just a year later - January 2010

Then then all the babies had to go for a ride