snitch snacks

We had some improvised peanut butter golden snitch snacks while we watched Harry Potter!

lunch and farm

What a great time we had meeting our friends for lunch in Waltham, then heading to Drumlin Farm!

We stopped at a used bookstore.

We're all hoping that Hannah and Malcolm get married someday.

The kids spent an insanely long time at the sheep barn. They went in and out, looking at all the pregnant sheep. They studied the chart of all the due dates and want to go back in a month when the babies are born!

Jane and Maddy named this sheep "Star." I call her "Crazy Eyes."

Mac the bunny!

skating

We had fun the other day meeting Lindsay and Nolan to have lunch and ice skate!

Jane's post

How to get a baby dragon egg in 3 easy steps:

#1 Draw blood on your finger. (Baby dragons are almost like sharks; they're attracted to blood. Adults are not attracted to blood.) Not a lot, it can be only a tiny prick.

#2 Rub it onto a sharp object.

#3 Ring a cowbell, over and over. A baby dragon egg is sure to come. (Out of the sky. Heads up!)

Invisibility potion in 4 easy steps:

(NOT GUARANTEED)

#1 Mix a tablespoon of water with half a teaspoon of green food coloring.

#2 Add 3 tablespoons of orange juice and 1 teaspoon of milk.

#3 Add something to get rid of the taste. I suggust 1 gallon of strawberry ice cream.

#4 Eat! You will turn invisible for 1 hour. Then you will fade into visible, slowly.

valentine fun

The kids loved all their valentines from school!

We had chocolate fondue for Valentine's dessert again. We ate in the living room by the fireplace because it was so cold out!

brrr!

We spent a sub-zero Valentine morning at the Friendly Toast and Science Museum. The kids had huge blueberry pancakes!

The new Animals in Motion exhibit was great!

There was a T. Rex skeleton borrowed from Chicago!

The river was mostly frozen.

We didn't see this movie but I'm sure Jane would love to sometime!

sledding hill

We never made it to the sledding hill last year because the snow was too deep. It was just right to go the other day and the kids had a lot of fun!

baking

The kids have been really into baking lately. They have fun picking out recipes and making them without our help. Malcolm made chocolate-swirled meringues the other day!

Jane made whoopie pies with Malcolm's help when we had another snow day on Monday!

When we had gone to the store to get ingredients, we also got seltzer. Malcolm said he was a "cool dude" drinking "soda."

some snow

We got a decent snowstorm last Friday and the kids had a snow day. Jane went right out to build a snowman!

It cleared up in the afternoon and it was pretty out.

Mommy's evening drink fit the theme.

The next morning there was a robin party!