snow and more

The past few weeks - well, they have passed. Eric and I submitted our grant applications on time and all schooling has started again. And we even did a few fun things!

Friends!

Edie and I tested out a new sledding hill, it was the best. Empty. Milk run.

Weaving Step one: sort your loops

This poor dude trapped himself in his dad's underpants when I wasn't looking

Verbascum thapsus is blooming, Verbascum blattaria doesn't seem interested. These are the plants that germinated from 142-year-old seeds! They don't seem to care!

Success!

Of course, it's Baby's new blanket!

MOARRRR

And then, while Ben was napping, Snowy the elf rogue princess was rescued from the goblins by Forest Killer the tiefling ranger and Moon Brook the elf druid. They joined forces with the red dragon-born warrior Bizzrigg who they met at the inn...now the intrepid band is deep in a cavern below a mausoleum, hunting down the necromancer who's been terrorizing the town. Roll on!

More sledding at the teeny hill at the school. Eric and Oscar took turns dragging Ben around. That boy is born to be a polar explorer!

Guilty, guilty, guilty.

NBD, just a little tea party. Turns out the brown in the teapot wasn't a stain, just some old dirt. I learned this once all the 'tea' had been drunk. At least it's clean now!

Oscar watched a movie about a robot and this prompted him to speak only in code the rest of the evening. He used complete if...then clauses, remembered closing parentheses, assigned appropriate variable names - it was a tour de force. Fortunately it seems to have lasted just the one night. This bit of code says (if.penis=hare,mess);

Hare meaning hair, naturally.

Friends!

John's playdough panda

Even Ben figured out the deal! He tasted one piece and that was enough. Edie still was sneaking crumbs here and there.

Good health to you all!