Valentine’s Day

We decided to make a trip down to Charlottesville over the long President’s Day weekend. It’s been so snowy along the east coast that we were worried we might not be able to make it – and it turns out there was a big snow storm the day that we left – but it didn’t get bad until we reached Charlottesville. They ended up getting about 4 inches of snow.

The four day weekend consisted of a lot of hanging out and not much more, which was perfect. Mom, Dad, Beck and Ari all had COVID at the end of 2020 and everyone is finally back to feeling better, thank goodness.

The cousins had a blast, especially the two peas in a pod, Lauren and Ari.

They spent most of the weekend outside in the snow – sledding down the hill, running around with the dogs, and playing on the swings.

The dogs also had a blast. Murci is so old, she didn’t do much, but Penny and Petunia played hard all weekend.

  • after hours of play t hey finally chilled in front of the stove
  • Murci loving on Petunia

Sophie finally got to meet Becky’s cat, Patches. She was in love. We’re still not getting a cat though 😉

Sophie & Patches

Our last day there was Valentine’s Day. The girls enjoyed some Valentine’s day presents and lots of candy! My parents let the kids roller skate in the house (unlike our house), so they had their wheels on most of the weekend.

  • the Valentine’s Girls

It was a great, relaxing weekend. Happy we were able to make it happen given the weather and pandemic. Looking forward to the next get together, hopefully soon!

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We had a very snowy Valentine’s Day and school was closed, so we had yet another day of finding indoor activities. Dave made the girls a GIANT valentine and hung it on the fridge. What artistic ability 🙂

The girls in their LOVE shirts, thanks to ‘auntie’ Aleen! Right before this picture was taken, Lauren bit Sophie pretty hard, so Sophie wasn’t too thrilled to get in close again. You can see the hesitation in her eyes – and the look of glee in Lauren’s! 
There was a Valentine’s Day party at Nest, and indoor play center. Sophie went to the face paining right away, and asked for, what else, but a Princess. 

The little princess
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We have found ourselves in a very cold, very snowy winter. In the last month school has been cancelled at least one day each week. On two occasions last week I took Sophie into the office with me. She was actually really great and an office hit – a good distraction for everyone 🙂 
Here’s a shot of a day where I had to pick her up early from school. All of this snow fell between 9am and 2pm! 

Last weekend we decided to take advantage of the weather and went to Camelback Mountain in the Poconos for a mini ski vacation with our friends Don, Ally and their son Oliver. We enrolled Sophie in ski school for the first time. Here she is before getting on to the skis. Unfortunately she lasted about 45 minutes in ski school before she was over it and Dave had to go pick her up. I think it was a combo of the cold, not knowing anyone in the group, and being uncomfortable on the skis. We’ll give it another try next year and see if it takes… 
Now that she’s in the Primary pre-school, Sophie has to make Valentine’s for her entire class of 22 kids. We got started on the project early so we could work on them all week – and we definitely needed to. Of course, tomorrow is Valentine’s day and school is already cancelled, but I’m assuming they’ll reschedule the exchange, as I’m sure we’re not the only family who has spent a good amount of time on these! 

And Lauren is becoming a real little kid. She’s eating with a spoon now, and definitely wants to do it for herself, rather than being helped. Ready for Montessori I guess. 
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