The last days of winter break were spent trying to stave off insanity with a variety of board games, electronics, and really cold walks. Clark and Dana got into a very extreme Jenga game one night.
Charlotte dealt with the stress but deciding one Saturday morning to chop off a large section of hair on the left side of her face. Basically a side mullet. Oh child....at least she cleaned it up nicely, right? Gina thankfully got us in quickly so she now has a beautiful Farrah Fawcett angled cut.
The first day back at school dropped our kids like a hammer. Charlotte spent the afternoon curled up like this.
But they quickly adapted and enjoyed the small skiff of snow.
We started swim lessons and hallelujah they are both old enough to finally be in the same class. Clark is by far the most advanced and has moved on to trying out the butterfly and dolphin kicks. Char, meanwhile, just loves the strokes and adores being with her big bro.
Cute photos of her randomly attacking Dana one night and me trying to put her layered hair into an Elsa braid. (Spoiler...it didn't hold for long).
But all that first week magic dissipated when we got slapped by a polar vortex which took our temperature from 40ish to 4 in about 10 hours. Brrr..... We got about a foot of snow, which instantly froze and turned our neighborhood into an ice rink. The days became 2 hour delays and snow day, 2 hour delay, another snow day. The kids took it in stride, helping Dana clear the driveway each morning and shaking off the cabin fever by playing on our jungle gym.
The absolute best day was when we got the invite to come sledding at the teeny tiny hill at Brit's under construction house. It was perfect. The kids built a sweet ramp where Clark got serious air and they ran up and down, up and down while I got to chat with moms and tour the bones of Brit's soon to be home. Heaven.
Well, it's almost February and 40 degrees are just around the corner. Which should help the soupy swamp that is the pickup field. Summer can't come soon enough!
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