GIRL TALK

This evening out of the goodness of his heart, dad went to the grocery store for mom to get her prescription filled. Mimi went along for the ride. Here is a portion of our conversation:

Mimi: Hello mom.
Mom: Hi baby.
Mimi: Mom, can I tell you something?
Mom: Sure, what is it?
Mimi: I love you. (Kissing sounds)
Mom: I love you too, with all of my heart (more kissing sounds)
Mimi: I can feel it in my heart.
Mom: I feel too.
Mimi: Bye mom.
Mom: Ok. Come home soon and tell dad to drive safe ok?
Mimi: OK

These are the moments I live for.

RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER

Today when Halliwell come over to the house her face was beet red. Keri asked mom if she got wind burn. It's not really noticable in the picture but trust me there were bright red blotches from the top of her forehead to the bottom of her chinney, chin, chin. Mom did not know what had happened nor did she ask Halle so as not to embarass her. Mom found out later from Halle's mom that Halliwell had taken the lipstick this morning and smeard it all over her face. She was playing that she was Rudolph. That explains this pose and the reason why Blake, Mimi and Halle were pretending that Blake was the reindeer and Mimi was the one in the sled saying "Mush! Mush!". Apparently they all play the game of "Reindeer".

AFTER THE SNOWFALL

This picture was taken about 10 minutes ago. Dad had called to say that it has been snowing like crazy in downtown Seattle and that we are to get around 4-6 inches of snow in our neighboring town.

OUR HOUSE FRONT AND BACK

All day the snow has been falling off and on. After the kids were done playing in the driveway, Keri took them all over to the school to play some more. When they came home mom had some hot ramen waiting for them. A little while later we had some hot chocolate and cookies for a snack. Then around 2:00 was when the snow really started to fall and that's when mom shot these pictures of our house.

WINTER WONDERLAND

This was mom's conversationg with Mimi this morning:

Mimi: Mama, I had a bad dream last night.

Mom: Oh Mimi I'm so sorry to hear that xoxoxoxo. Do you feel better now?

Mimi: Uh huh.

Mom: I've got some good news for you today.

Mimi: What's that?

Mom: No school today.

Mimi: What's school???

How soon they forget.

SCHOOL CLOSURE

Today the school was closed due to the snow but that did not slow Mimi down any. All the day long there has been a steady stream of her friends coming over to the house. First it was Blake. Then he had to go out with his mom. This was followed by a visit with Erin and Liam. Shortly thereafter Elissa showed up. Then when they went home, Mimi took a break to practice her piano lesson. I must say that she is doing pretty good. She is just now learning how to play chords and she is feeling real good about it. Next thing mom knew ole' Blake came back over to play. They must have spent a couple of hours outside playing in the snow riding up and down the driveway on the disc. Then it was time to come in for some hot chocolate. That's always yummy on such a cold day.

DECORATING THE TREE

Although we still had not heard whether or not Mimi has school tommorrow, more than likely mom thinks the school will be closed therefore Mimi is able to stay up late and help her dad decorate the tree. Dad bought the tree last Saturday but everytime he and Mimi wanted to decorate, we had power outages! Good gracious!!!