Sunny Monday

On Monday it was sunny. We ventured outside and built an igloo. Or, at least, we started one. We used tinfoil bread pans to make our bricks.

Here's the igloo, as seen from Jacob's bedroom. I got the idea from a "fun mom" book that Santa brought Brenda. Perhaps Santa should have gotten one for herself!

This brilliant idea is from Chris Volz, one of Jacob's preschool teachers last year at Cyert. They are called "ice flowers." Jacob and Casey helped me to make colored water with food coloring, and then we poured the colored water into ramekins with a wooden chopstick for the stem. We put them in our freezer. After they froze we "planted" them in this beautiful flower pot that Jacob and Maddy made last year.

Here are some dripping wet snow boots!