Fun in the Snow

Another fun snow day! I haven't seen this much snow since I was a kid! I was supposed to work on Friday, but one of the other pharmacists volunteered to spend the night and work by herself so I wouldn't have to worry about driving. So, I had a three day snow weekend!

We thought the sleet and freezing rain would start Thursday night, but we stayed above freezing until about noon on Friday. School wasn't cancelled Friday morning, but Shawn's professor had cancelled his 10:00 class because he lives in Fayetteville and didn't want to drive because the weather was really bad up there. Shawn went to his 11:00 class, but the sleet started and UAFS closed at 1:00. The sleet lasted for about an hour and then started mixing with snow....then all snow for hours!!

We got up this morning, had breakfast, bundled up, and went outside to play! Alivia made snow angels and instigated a snowball fight. Aleigh seemed almost scared of the snow. She would walk out into it and then call for me to come pick her up and take her to another spot.

We built "Bob" the snowman and gathered clean snow for snow ice cream. Note to self: less sugar in the ice cream next time!! It was my first attempt, and it was good...just VERY sweet.

Favorite Alivia quotes and other funny things

Aleigh and I picked Alivia up early from pre-school the other day to surprise her with a girls day out to lunch. When I asked her where she wanted to go, she asked if Red Lobster was open. I told her it was and she said that's where she wanted to go. While we were driving, she tells me, "Mommy, when I'm 32, I'm going to like to eat fish".

When asking Alivia about where she would like to eat, she usually names 3 places: The Lighthouse Inn (and upscale seafood reastaurant), Red Lobster, or "Old McJakins". Old McJakins is what she calls Big Jakes, a family owned restaurant down the street from us that serves home style food. I don't know how she came up with that name, but it cracks me up every time she asks to go there!

Overheard from the backseat while driving home one evening...Alivia to Aleigh: "Aleigh, if you don't share, God will magically spank you".

Shawn and I were watching some old Saturday Night Live re-runs. One of the actors called one of the actresses a stupid b****. Of course, Alivia happened to walk by at the same time. She stopped and turned to look at us with a shocked expression on her face and says "Mommy, that man just said a bad word! He said stupid!". Needless to say, we will now watch SNL after she's in bed.

While patting me on the back, Alivia counted to 14. She said, "Mommy, I patted you on the back 14 times because that's how old you are". Yep, I guess you guys didn't know I had her at the young age of 10.

Aleigh says some funny things, too, but right now it's more about how she says things than what she says. She surprises me with new words everyday. My favorite is when she told me that she did something and it was "an accident. I didn't do it on purpose". So cute!

Aleigh has also developed quite the taste for different foods. I was chopping a yellow bell pepper for stir-fry last weekend. I turned around after putting my knife in the sink to find Aleigh grabbing a piece of the pepper off of the cutting board saying "what is it?". Before I could stop her, she was eating it! She loved it and proceeded to eat two more pieces. She loves sushi, peas, shrimp, carrots, sardines, spinach, salad, and even broccoli. She loves to dip food into anything. For example, dipping lettuce in mashed potatoes and gravy, and garlic cheese biscuits into ketchup. One of her favorite lunches is liver cheese "ginswiches". That's what she calls a sandwich!



Alivia looking like Jennifer Aniston.



















Aleigh doing acrobatics on New Year's Eve.