Winter Adventures

Rosalie has her first loose tooth!  It's more exciting and heartbreaking than I would have expected.  So many kids we know have already started down this path, with wiggly teeth and even new teeth growing in.  When the kids proudly show them to us, I think, "Cool!  A normal kid having a normal thing happen.  Cute."  But now that it's OUR baby,  I get it now--it feels big.  She's going to have whole new teeth!  Maybe even a whole new smile!  Her ADULT teeth!  What will they look like?  

Ah well, at least we'll always know what her beautiful peepers will look like. 

This shot above was taken on a day trip to the Seattle Center, also the location of the sculpture outside the Armory (which used to be called The Center House), where the food court is. I don't know the significance of this giant O, but it sure is fun to crawl in.

During Winter Break we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa at Ocean Shores.  As usual the beach was a great time.  Digging, climbing, making rivers.

 Not to mention a ride back to the house for part of the way.

We had a very brief "snow day" in February, too.  Once the snow started to fall the previous evening, the three of us did a little snow walk around the neighborhood.  How is it that snow makes everything so magic?

Here are some fun gems from school.  Something that I thought was cool--the other day Ro's teacher supplied each student with a box of new crayons to replace the ones they had used for the first half of the year.  Most of the kids' school supply boxes have lost and broken crayons or at least they are a jumbled happy mess in their crayon box.  You know, typical kid.  Or typical anyone, really.  So I took a look at Rosalie's "old" crayons...?  

You'll notice that since the crayons have gotten shorter she also has room for a nicely sharpened pencil in there as well.  I remember being a kid and admiring this sort of discipline in some other kids.  I did not have it.  But she sure does.  Wow.

Anyway, here's a cute piece of art that was on the wall recently--the assignment was to write about what you will do when you are 100 (as you can see).

On Dr. Seuss's birthday the kids made Cat in the Hat hats.  Rosalie took the hat home, then made a cat mask to go with it.

For Michael's work, we went on an all-expenses-paid retreat to Whistler last week.  This was an awesome opportunity for Michael and Rosalie to do some skiing, which they've been doing every Sunday to prep for this trip.  I had an equally fun time, just not skiing.

The hotel was quite luxurious.  They even had kid-sized robes!

We were lucky to have lots of good snow even though we were up there in March.  We caught a few flakes.

Whistler Village has a small outdoor ice skating rink, so we went skating one evening after dinner.  Since we were all on the ice I forgot to get a shot of it, but it sure was fun.  We had little walker things that kept us from falling down.  I must say, the walker things improved  the fun.  After the skating Rosalie made a new friend:

I believe there's another picture of Ro on this blog with her in these Olympic rings when she was younger.  

Probably also a pic of us in this gazebo with different colored lights.

Let's face it: Whistler is magic.

Riding the bus with Michael's co-workers is pretty fun, too.

So that's the fun for now!  Good times. Today Rosalie and Michael are doing their last ski trip of the season, probably.  Winter seems to be wrapping up. Spring is definitely starting to sprout.  I'm sure more cuteness will be sprouting too.