Saturday, November 15, 2014

Snow Day

After a very warm fall, we've had a sudden burst of freezing cold weather. FREEZING!! It started snowing on Thursday morning and it didn't stop until Friday late afternoon. It just snowed and snowed and snowed. By the end we had about 8.5 inches on the sidewalk and there were 11 inches on top of the car. Whoa! I've never seen so much snow ever. Boise even cancelled school which I guess they seldom do.
It's very beautiful and very fun and it makes me awfully grateful for our heater and waterproof gloves.
We spent a lot of the day watching the snow come down

And then we went out to play! 

She was so happy to get icicles. She remembered playing with them last year and couldn't wait to do it again.  She tried to use it like a telescope like Olaf does.  It didn't work.

Here she is burying herself in snow.  She's wearing her footie pjs under all of this, with a snow bib on, boots on her feet, a parka, and waterproof mittens that go halfway up her arm. She stayed dry, and apparently warm. Those darn mittens kept coming off until I finally put rubber bands around her wrists and everybody was happy.

Look at the snow on the roof of the clubhouse!


Beautiful view down the street. The roads were so covered in snow and ice. By the end of the day the cars were just lumps of white along the edges of the road.

It wasn't great snowball snow, too cold and powdery, but that didn't mean we didn't try. We threw a lot of snow at eachother. 

Snow swimming. 

Here she's building a snow fort with the neighbor kids. The icicles go all along the edges for defense. Amy used the icicles as "levers that make her machine go"

jumping off of the stump into the snow

oooof.

And rolling onto the sidewalk. So much for shoveling. 

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Halloween

Two weeks ago, Amy wanted to be a blue kitty for Halloween.  Are you sure, we asked, you definitely want to be a blue kitty? Yes, absolutely. So we made a blue kitty costume. One week ago, she tells all her friends she will be an anglerfish with a real working light-up lure. And she will be orange. 
Sigh. 
I'm not really a pushover and I don't usually cater to whims, but an angerfish is much much cooler than a blue kitty, and frankly, I'm thrilled to have made it one more year without dressing her as a pretty pretty princess or a damsel in distress. So, angler fish is was. 

She digs it. 

The hat is from a baby costume, probably a pumpkin or a carrot or something, that we sewed dangly bits to and a ping pong ball cut in half and colored to look like googly eyes. And we added teeth and most importantly, a lure. The lure is a coat hanger (thanks Pop Pop!) with a little light-up jewel attached to the end.

Swiiiiiiiim into my moutttttthhhh

The body is a grown-up sized T-shirt sewn like a onesie with added scales and fins made out of the scraps from her blue kitty suit. 

Daddy the demented teddy bear (Dad, you look.....AWESOME!!!) takes her down the street. She can hardly contain herself.

First stop, Elliot's house. Candy! Score!

Then, around the block, trying to keep up with the big kids.

She always remembered to say Trick or Treat! and almost always remembered to say it after the person had opened the door. 

She sometimes said thank you, but mostly screamed "Fishy Light!!!" which obviously means, "Thanks for acknowledging that I'm super cool and rewarding me with candy!!!!"