January Snow and Saturday Trains

Liam's snow Angel
Luke's Snow Angel

Dump Trucks hauling snow

This activity lasted almost an HOUR for Luke and Liam! Too bad I didn't have a cup of coffee out there.

Saturday Morning Trains!

Saturday morning trains

Racing the Trains

Checking out the bridge

Cheeeeeeese!

We have had one of the mildest winters on record for Minnesota this year (so far, that is). I keep wondering what the repercussions of such a mild winter will be in the long run. Like more bugs this summer, a longer winter with snow in the spring, etc...? I have no idea because I have never seen a winter in Minnesota where we could actually play outdoors without snow gear in January. But this winter has been relatively mild and it has been nice in my opinion though many of the natives are crying for the lack of snow and "good ice" to play hockey outdoors. We did, however, get some snow over the weekend and the boys love playing in it. They (minus Aiden) love to shovel and could spend hours outside "working" on the driveway. Aiden spends his 10 minutes outside before he is ready to come in, but that is hardly worth the nearly 20 minutes it takes to put on all his snow gear since he is not exactly tolerant of all the clothing.

Another one of our weekly traditions recently has been donuts with Daddy on Saturday mornings. I am usually trying to fit in a longer run either solo or with our running group while John takes the boys out to get donuts. Its a special treat that they really look forward to and I will never complain about a clean kitchen and some time away. We do have days and hours when everyone plays really well together. Luke and Liam do a relatively good job of including Aiden and tolerating his sometimes destructive forms of play as he knocks down their Lego towers or pulls apart the train tracks. The pictures are proof that sometimes it does work for all three to do the same activity at the same time!

In other news, Aiden had his 2 year check up this past week and his is pretty close to the size that Luke was at 2 years of age. He is 34.5 inches and 32.9 lbs. That is about an inch shorter than Luke and 1.3 lbs heavier! We all knew he was a butterball.