Endless Winter

This year winter is endless. The white stuff keeps falling, and falling, and falling some more. The snow plow piles are out of control. The snow in our back yard is so deep that our fence is non-existent - we can just walk into our neighbor's yard. Oliver asks me on a daily basis when the snow is going to go away and when he can play in his sandbox and when summer will return - not soon enough. (Maybe when it does return we'll have an endless summer?)

Our house is showing the signs of us being cooped up. Not only are things in a constant state of disarray, but we've started to become a bit more lax about things (if that was even possible). For example, we've let the kids take up fencing. Oliver is pretty good with the sword. Henni, however, needs to work on her sword wielding skills.

Henni has, however, drastically improved her bottle drinking skills. The weekend before last she kept Davis busy warming milk and feeding her - the chunky little monkey devoured more than 20 ounces in 5 hours one day and 17 ounces in the same period the next day. Thankfully Oliver was there to help Davis out.

This past weekend I didn't have painting or yoga training so we headed to Maine. The weekend was, you guessed it, full of snow - another foot! With the adult to kid ratio much better than back home, we managed to get outside the majority of the weekend. We spent Saturday skiing at the Snowbowl. The skiing there was incredible. I grew up on the mountain and it was always a skating rink - all of the snow this year has transformed the mountain into, well, a ski hill. Oliver has decided that he is not a big fan of the snow plow - he'd rather just go super fast down the hill.

All of the new snow required us to make some modifications to the luge track. Oliver was too busy to sled - he just wanted to work on the track - "I too busy workin' to sled. Need to fix broken track." I am guessing that, given the age of our workers, we won't be eligible to host the Olympics.

Other fun outside activities included playing with Papa and Le Le,


And playing on snowmobiles and such things at the Owls Head Transportation Museum.

Inside at the museum Davis and Oliver tested out an ice sail boat. While the boat looked like fun, I think we were all wishing it was a nice warm day and we were out on the ocean.

This past weekend Henni also gave the exersaucer a go and she got to visit with Uncle Jon.