Last Monday, when the boys were off for President’s day, they all spent some time playing outside, swinging on the swings, riding their bikes, throwing the lacrosse ball around and kicking a soccer ball. The weather has been so random this winter, I think it felt Spring-like to them. Aiden came in and said, “do you want to know how happy I am?” Excited and revved up by his outdoor adventures, he drew this 100% happy picture:

And over to the other end of the spectrum, yesterday there was no Kindergarten for Aiden, a short day for Logan and Brady was allowed to skip (which I usually let him do when the other boys are home before his afternoon preschool begins). We had a pretty nice winter storm that left roughly 2-3 inches of the white stuff (on the driveway…where I wrestled with the snow blower to get it off). In the morning hours while Logan was gone, I brought out some paper and told Aiden & Brady to draw a “snow day”. This is Aiden’s:

He was mad because I gave him a piece of paper that already had some blue scribbles in the top corner. We worked together to make it into a nice cloud.

Here is our (apparently 4-story) house! Brady and I are downstairs, daddy is on the 2nd floor, Logan and Aiden are upstairs on floor #4. My (very mini) van is on the driveway and we have a nice fire going as you can see from the chimney smoke. I was quite impressed by Aiden’s house drawing…you would think we had owned a dollhouse before :)

Aiden’s snowman outside  

Here is Brady’s “snow day”. The square is our house. The red figure inside is Brady.

There is a terrible snow tornado outside. Kona (in brown) is rescuing a cat from the storm (cat shown in pink)  

There is a snowman of course and he has a brown pipe.

Logan’s most recent art work is in the form of cursive!They are starting cursive this year in 2nd grade and he was pleased as punch the other day to show me that he taught himself how to write his name. He wrote it on a piece of paper when he got home Monday and carried it around showing his brothers (who don’t know how to read cursive so I had to verify that it did indeed say Logan). 

I found this in his pocket Tuesday afternoon. Working on his last name now :)