Happy Birthday Isaac!

730 days old...

Happy Birthday Ethan!

Five years old...

Russian Dinner

Last week we let Ethan pick a country to study all week.  He picked Russia, so we spent the week looking up Russian recipes, looking up Russian/English words, coloring pictures of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, and watching travel documentaries of Russia.

We finished up our study with an authentic Russian dinner of schshi (shee, cabbage soup), pelmeni (pierogi), and black bread.  For our dinner, we each picked a Russian name and used as many Russian words in our dinner time conversation as we could: voda (water), stol (table), koshka (cat), dom (house), derevo (tree), and lozkha (spoon).

Late Winter Snow

The 2013-14 winter was the coldest, snowiest winter I've ever experienced in Michigan.  Most winters, we never have more than three or four inches at a time, with many thaws.  This winter: lots of snow, and no thaws.  Here's how the house looked in February:

 

 

Playing in their favorite cubby!

Isaac loves when his older sibling include him!

Brotherly love!

In here!

Playing in the snow!

Cool!  try this Ethan!

Ok, Here I go!

I'm all ready daddy.  Hurry, I'm getting hot!

Wintertime!

Started snowing mid-morning Sunday, and was still snowing hard when I went to bed Sunday night.  We have about 13 inches of new snow now.  That came on top of six or so from the previous storm, which combines for a lot more snow at once than we usually get. 

So it looks and feels like winter: -4 (F) today.  Tomorrow the high is forecasted to be 2.  Which is up from 0, forecasted earlier.

Not to worry, though: it will be 40 and rainy by Saturday, which is all normal for lower Michigan!