Best of Winter

Personally I can't wait for winter to end.  We've been sick since January with a series of colds, flus, fevers, ear and eye infections. 

But it hasn't been all bad.  We also had a lot of fun this winter, including family visits, trips to go tubing in the snow, Christmas, and of course, William.

Outside at a street fair on Magnolia Boulevard

Eating dinner at Century Dragon

Helping out at Target



Arthur insisted on wearing a tie to the indoor playground.

 Science experiments:

 Like always, the kids played a lot of dress-up:

Beatrice wants to get married in this outfit.

Beatrice performing her variety show, which included songs, skits, dancing, and crowd work. She rehearsed it for five hours.

Arthur dancing in the show

 

Showing me his ring

This winter we also took the kids to see Frozen in the theater twice (the second time for a special sing-along edition) and it made a huge impression on them both, especially Arthur.  The kids enact scenes from the movie all the time - usually Beatrice is Elsa and Arthur is Ana.  Arthur wants to be a princess (mostly because they have "so many outfits") and he loves belting out the song's two dramatic ballads, "For the First Time in Forever" and "Let It Go."  (He also asks me to forward the movie to specific outfits in specific scenes.)


Singing "Let It Go"

And again.

I can't wait for this spring: a visit from the Spindlers, camping, girls' weekend, Easter activities, and several major renovation projects.