Day 16 - The first day of 2013!

As you can imagine, New Years day was a lazy one around here.  We did manage to go outside and play in the snow.  The cold temperatures made for fine, dry snow, unlike the nice wet snow ball making snow that we had last night.  The kids were a bit bummed that you could not make snow balls today.  They did manage to make a snow wall.  I was impressed with his design of using sticks as reinforcement so that it would be stronger.  We did let the dogs out as well to play with them in the snow.  I think I was the only casualty as Tink came running full speed from about 150 feet away and ran square into me as I tried moving one way and she went the same direction.  All in all we had a good time in the snow.

After coming inside we decided to paint some wooden airplanes that the kids got for Christmas.  He is quite the artist and we have found that he enjoys drawing and painting.

We worked on some English flash cards with him and then after dinner we snuggled in for another movie night.  

Tomorrow will be a much different day for all of us.  I have to go back to work which may be interesting since I have been off work for a couple weeks.  I may have to introduce myself to everyone at our daily morning meeting!  So just a heads up my posts may be a bit different from here on out except for the fact that I will be taking a couple more days off before he heads back.  

We are over the halfway point and it is amazing to see how much he has grown in the few short weeks we have had the pleasure of having him in our house.  We still have a few things we would like to do with him, bowling, see a movie, and a couple of other things that we should be able to do in the evenings.

Take joy in the little things!