Playdate with Max

My friend Suzie has her son Max who is almost 2.  Suzie needed to go house shopping so I offered to watch Max all day for her.  It was a great fun day and I'm fully confident in having a second child soon.  The kids first played around a lot and then they helped make cupcakes.  After cupcakes they took a brief (1.5 hour) nap but it was still enjoyable for me. 

Kaellyn walked out wearing Max's shoes

With aprons on

After the nap they came down from their nap they ate lunch and enjoyed a Shirley Temple together. Then they finished the frosting on the cupcakes and added sprinkles.  Once the sprinkles were added, the kitchen needed to be cleaned up.  Which they both did a great job of cleaning up. 

Eating lunch

Having a Shirley temple

So cute!!

Decorating the cupcakes

Look at that cute face!!

Covered in frosting and sprinkles

Cleaning the sprinkles mess up

 After cleaning up we watched a bit of the musical Oliver! from 1968.  It gave the kids a break and yet they still danced at the musical parts.  After about 45 minutes of the movie we went upstairs and I packed for my California trip while the kids played on the bed. 

Watching Oliver!

While I packed

Helping me "pack"

At this point most of the day had gone past so we all went downstairs and made dinner.  Both kids were great help with making the salad.  Then we all sat down for a good dinner.  All in all it was a great fun day and I'm sure both kids will sleep excellent tonight.

 

Quick video of them making dinner

Groundhog Day

Is such a big deal in Pennsylvania.  It was live on all the local channels so Kaellyn and I watched it.  I had no idea how much went into Groundhog day.  1st there is a Stump Warden.  Yes, a warden especially for the Stump and he looked like he took his job very seriously.  Then there is Phils governor because the groundhog gets his own governor.  There also are several of Phils "handlers".  And the final and most coveted position is the President.  He is the only one in the world who understands Phils language.  And the only one who tells the world what Phil has said.  His name is Bill Deely and he also takes his job very seriously. 

All in all it was very interesting to learn all about Groundhog day.  When Phil finally made his appearance on the TV Kaellyn said, "dog dog" and kept pointing to him.

Cuddling the Meercat who we called Groundhog for the day

Watching the show

Pointing

Briss found Groundhogs Day beer

New videos

Video 1

Kaellyn walked out wearing my shoes and my purse so I had to grab the camera

K wearing shoes

Shoes 2

Skiing

Briss and I went skiing all day on 28th January.  We got up and got ready and had the babysitter for 8 hours and Kaellyn loved having someone new all day.  Now, I've only been skiing one other time in my life so I was very nervous.  Briss had bought himself a snowboard this week so he was excited to use it.  Everyone, that went got snowboards and I was the only one who went skiing.  I had wanted to go down the bunny hill for practice but every body raced ahead for the big hill so I had no choice but to go down the mountain with everybody.  Of course, Briss raced ahead and left me at the top of the mountain.  I got my courage up and I went down with the other girl.  I fell about 4 times but only because I got so much speed I got nervous.  But I made it down the mountain pretty well.  The other girl did not do so well but she kept going down.  We went down a few more times and then got lunch.  Briss hurt himself pretty badly going down on the last run when he hit his head on the hard snow.  So after lunch we only went down one more time. 

Afterwards a little wind burned

As we were leaving to go to the car someone started yelling on the ski lift.  As we looked over there was a small child dangling from the lift.  Briss immediately ran over to help and it was a few seconds before the Red Cross guy was able to show up.  It was another few minutes before they were able to secure a blanket and she was able to drop down.  It was a long few minutes too.  But thankfully, she was fine and we had a bit of a story to tell. 

And that was our skiing day.