Isaac's Entertainment

Since C & J aren't here there is no one else to entertain Isaac. So, I have resorted to using the playpen to actually get anything done. Here he is "playing" with an egg carton.

This absolutely flabbergasted me. Isaac LOVES (like most kids) to pull out all my Tupperware and throw it all over the kitchen. Well he found an old butter tub and then found the matching lid and here he is trying to put the two together... He is only ONE!?!

WHAT? WHAT????

I can't beleive it. We have about 15-18 inches of snow. Can you imagine? Did we somehow get picked up and moved to Chicago or somewhere that get snow like this? I am completely snowed in, I am certainly not going to drive in this amount of snow and ice. So here I sit, just Isaac and me, making Pumpkin bread, Chex Mix, Chocolate Chip Cookies and the like... Both of us are starting to go a little stir crazy. By evidence of the screaming child behind me. Just screaming to scream, nothing wrong, just making noise cause he can and there is no one else here to do it! Pray. Pray hard!

Somewhere under this mound of snow is my VAN! On the left side of the picture you can just see the side mirror.

This is my bird feeder that is empty, but the snow is higher than the bird feeder is!

Quiet Snow

I will readily admit it. I am not ashamed. I fell asleep. I was exhausted after this week and after visiting with Donovan and C&J then going with him until Christmas, I was done. I got home after a slow trip from the Library with snow coming fast down all around me. Isaac was exhausted too and quickly went to sleep once we were home. I curled up on the couch to warm up and the next thing I remember is a quick phone call from Jenn (no worries sister!), then falling back asleep. I woke up to this beautiful, quiet site:

We had gotten 4 inches earlier in the week and a some of that had melted today, so there was a little bit of a base of old snow. But most of what you see in the pictures is new snow. In a matter of 3 hours, we recieved 3+ inches of fresh snow.

What a WEEK!!!

Oh my Goodness! It has been WAY too long since I have blogged anything! So here is this weeks events!

There has been no school all week due to the freaky weather. That means:

1. Mommy can sleep in a little if boys will leave her and Isaac alone

2. No rushing out the door trying to shove food, backpacks, jackets, etc. into arms of complaining/slow-motion child.

3. By the 3rd day cabin fever sets in and we are going CRAZY!!!

4. Boys get to play in the snow to their hearts content!

Here are a few pictures to go with the above sentiments:

They BUGGED and BUGGED me to go outside. FOREVER! At first I said that they could go outside when the temp. reached 30. Finally, when mommy clued into the fact that it wasn't going to reach 30 and they were going to drive me INSANE with asking, I relented and bundled them up to the best of my ability. This is C&J's first journey out into the snowy land...

That only lasted about 45 minutes - if that. I was doing a little baking that day so the spot right next to the oven was the warmest in the house... So this is were their cold little bums sat until I had to move them to mix the Chex Mix. Isaac even sat with them a little while because they had pretzels that they were willing to share!

Christian caught this sneaky little man in action.
Isaac loves technology. He wants phones, computers, handhelds, etc. Anything that could potentially make cool noises, he wants it! (this is an old cell phone that he treasures and gets extremely upset if brothers try to take it away from him.) Doesn't he look older here? Maybe a glimpse into the future of Isaac... Hmmm. Scary.

Christian managed to get the hat on and take a picture before Isaac ripped it off his head! This blanket is with him always, if it isn't in his hands or nearby, Isaac can usually find where it is and bring it to me!