Snow!

Saturday David and I were in the house, getting his afternoon snack when I looked outside... SNOW!
The last time he saw snow was last winter/early spring, too long ago for him to remember. He was SO excited to see snow falling from the sky that we rushed to get his jacket on and get outside.

He squinted at it, ran towards it, reached for it, caught a few flakes and screamed, "Ouch! It's COLD!"

What a little goof.

Since he refused to keep his hood up, I didn't want to stay outside for long periods of time.

Sometimes you just have to stop and smell the roses, or, in this case, catch the snowflakes.

Even if they ARE cold.

p.s. I LOVE that he felt the need to applaud Mother Nature's performance in the last photo. :-D

Snow Days

OK, so the snow days were actually two and three weeks ago, but I feel as if I am still trying to catch up on things from them. Interims were due early last week, but so many kids had missing work because we were out those five days and they kept forgetting to check the online gradebook to see what was missing and/or then forgetting to get the make-up work from me so I could get it graded. As a result, they turned things in right before my grades were due and I didn't have time to get them all graded and into the online gradebook. I'm relieved that it was interims and not our actual gradecard, as that would have been much more difficult to make adjustments to later.

The plus side of those snow days? Well, a few days at home with my little man, of course! :-) Just spending the time holding him, hugging him, loving on him... it was wonderful!

School... or lack thereof

I've had a six-day weekend this past week. Saturday night/Sunday morning our little man had a 102 degree fever, so we went to the Children's Hospital ER to make sure we weren't missing something major. They checked him out and said it was viral, but without doing a complete blood work-up they couldn't specify what it was. I asked if the treatment at this age (just under four months) would be any different for different viral infections and the doctor said that the treatment would be pretty much the same (lots of rest/fluids for the little man). Bob and I couldn't see putting the little man through bloodwork when in the end we would be doing the same treatment anyway. (Why poke and prod an already miserable, sick baby? Heck, I don't even like being poked and prodded when I'm WELL. :-D)

So... I stayed home Monday to take care of the handsome sicky. :-)

Tuesday, we had snow... then ice.... then snow... then more ice... and finally a bit of snow on the top. I'm guessing we have about 7 or 8 inches snow and about 1 to 2 inches of ice that came down in the form of freezing rain. In short, no school. Wednesday... no school. Today? Two-hour delay... and no school. Tomorrow? Two-hour delay... and, in all likelihood, school. The kids are going to be batty, having been cooped up because of the ice. Hormonal (Valentine's Day), sugared-up (Valentine's Day), and stir-crazy (snow days) kids... it's days like tomorrow that we should earn combat pay. ;-)