Outdoors in winter

It has been warm-ish most of the last 5 days excepting yesterday. and, well, today was less warm than had been predicted, but we ventured out anyway. We were hoping the whole parking/driving area for the pool down by the river would be plowed. Not so much. We trudged over a very icy "walkway" and managed to get up to the bridge.

checking out the ducks/swans/geese in the water

sticking to the small non icy area

Mama and Eliot trying to stay warm (pic by Bruce)

happy to be outside even if it wasn't as warm as we;d hoped and we had to cross an icy tundra to get to the bridge!

We finished up by playing 4 person duck duck goose in an empty (plowed) parking spot, fun times!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We celebrated Valentine;s Day one night early and introduced the kiddos to Fondue- the chocolate variety that is...I mena in my mind there is no other variety ;)

mmmmmm

sweetie baby pics

Rest time antics with mama and Eliot....He was just being too cute to pass up the photo op!

I just love this toy!

awesome smiley baby!

and yes mama knows I need clothes on in January!

4 Months old!

Hey, I'm four months old today!

Me and Ollie are buds

 

I've got new skills! I like to roll over belly to back now

Ha ha, now I'm on my back, I rock 

snow fun

It snowed quite a bit last wednesday and we all went outside on saturday to enjoy the snow with daddy home. Nothing fancy just in the front yard and on the snowbanks

Bruce on the giant snowplow made snowbank

throwing snow

daddy and his mobile posse

Even mama  and Eliot made it outside

today's outdoor fun suited Ollie better (like he could walk on the sidewalk and enjoyed being up high on the snowbank)

snow quality control

woo hoo snow!

Blizzard fun!

Yesterday it snowed and snowed, so we made banana bread!

Today we frolicked, or the older two did anyway...

Ollie all dressed but not too mobile...or happy

snow princess

self timer mode....little Eliot buried in the sling under the coat...ollie's head..

so close, just believe me, Eliot is in there ;)

45 minutes to get outside, and I took Ollie back in after 7 minutes....life w/ littles...

And we leave Maine...

We skee-dattle out of Maine, with one last pit stop at the family restaurant in Windham. parting is such sweet sorrow...but the food is great!

modeling a studly hat

happy despite not being allowed to eat anything here ;)

table 1

table 2- just missing daddy, he was off procuring more cofee

look we match!