The snowman Escapades

My hubby made me laugh out loud as he chronicled the life of our snowman on twitter. I thought I'd show his tweets here(pics are below the captions):

"Our snowman is fighting for his life right now. He's a true fighter. "


"Day 2: He's lost his face, and looks scary thin, but otherwise doing amazing. Go Key! (Charly named him). "


"Day 2: 1:20pm. Not even doctors can explain this. "


"Day 3: 9:00am. I'm blaring out the window, 'Keep Holding On' by Avril Lavigne. He's soaking it in."


"Day 3: A look back. This is Key the snowman in his 'glory days'... 4 days ago (Friday)."


"Day 3: 6:00pm. Today was brutal. Key's head fell off but I doctored it back. He's now getting 'short' jokes."


"Day 4: 8:02am. Some kid just shouted a 'headless horseman' joke at our snowman, Key. While it hurt, Key knows there's some truth in it."


"Day 5: 7:40am. 'Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.' Gen. Douglas MacArthur.// so long Key."



To see the stream of tweets on Rob's twitter page click here

Catch up Posts!!!

I spent some time catching up on some events I left out so please check out the following:

School Christmas Parties 2009

Christmas 2009

Fun at the Aquarium

New Years with the Fifers

Watermark's 10 year Anniversary

We celebrated our church's 10 year anniversary back in January (1/17 to be exact). It was so fun & the kids had a blast on the bounce houses & the pony rides. We enjoyed yummy cotton candy & corn dogs.




Posing:

All the adults had fun too! My friends Carrie & Sarah:

Doug, Christman & Rob:

Lane!:

My Niece Clara!

My niece Clara Alene Thomas was born on January 8th! Isn't she cute!!



Well, it just so happened that Charly wanted to spray her hair orange that day. We had found a can of orange hairspray, and I thought, why not? So we went to visit sweet Clara in the hospital with orange hair.. .




And here she is at three weeks old:


I also have a new nephew (well, he's 4 months now). If you want to see how cute Hank (Henry Bascom Richardson) is check him out here for the birth pics and here for a more recent pic.

And I'm getting a another new niece in just a few weeks!!! My sis is due March 4th.

100 Days of Kn

Last Thursday(Feb. 4th), Cobb celebrated the 100th day of school at Norton. On Friday, they got to wear shirts to respresent 100 days. Cobb had the great idea of putting a tree on his shirt and putting 100 green fingerprints as leaves. Here's his shirt:


Charly & Ridge wanted to make a shirt too. So here they are making their shirts:


And the final products:


**I've been a bit behind on posting. So I'm going to play some catch up. . . Stay tuned.

Snow & Strep

We had a great time in the snow yesterday and today. Dallas had a record snow of 12.5 inches! (beat the record from January of 1964). Yesterday it snowed all day long, but that didn't stop us from getting out there.

So after school Cobb, Charly, our friend Sarah Parks & I played in the snow(Ridge was sleeping to catch up from a sleepless night of throwing up due to Strep).

Our first snowman:


Snowball fight with Parks:


That evening we went out again with daddy:


Why the frosted mini wheats box? I was attempting to block Cobb's continual snowballs aimed in my direction

Snowman in the backyard:

Cobb eating snow:


Today was beautiful. Here's the front of our house:

Our neighborhood:

Our backyard:


This morning we bought a makeshift sled (a blow up boat) & tried to go sledding at the Joe Farmer Rec Center.









The fam:

going home to rest:



This afternoon our front yard snowman needed surgery so Cobb and I fixed him up:



Sickies stayed inside:

Poor Charly threw up all day today:

More Potty Talk

R: Mommy, God said, "you are not supposed to wipe!."

Me: God said that?

R: yea. God said, "don't wipe Ridgey b/c you will hurt his bottom!"

hmmmm is my child trying to pull the "God-card?"

And another quote from the other day:
R: oh mommy, I forgot to tell the tee tee & doo doo to stop. So, it just all came out!

*Can you tell we are STILL in the thick of potty training? I keep telling myself, "He'll get it soon. At least he won't go to highschool in pull-ups!"