Snow!

Fort Wayne got about 10" of snow this week. In the almost 4 years that we have lived here, that is probably the biggest storm we have seen. Usually we do not get that much snow at once. Schools have been closed the past 3 days, and people were advised not to go out unless it was an emergency. (I know some people reading this in New England or MN are probably scoffing at 10". I'm sure you get that by Halloween each year.)

Anyway, here are some pictures of the kids enjoying the snow. Well, Samuel was enjoying it. I took Becca out once and she was fine for about 3 minutes and then she realized how cold snow was, so she wanted to go back in.

We borrowed Meg's idea for playing with snow inside, and Becca seemed to enjoy that a lot more:

Today Samuel built a big snow fort with his cousin and grandmother:

While they did that outside, Becca and I hung out inside and played with playdough. She is obsessed with playdough lately, but she can only play with it for about 5 minutes at a time because she looks at it and looks at it and looks at it, and then it's like, must. eat. playdough. now. So then it has to go away. Today I found a recipe for homemade playdough and I made that for her. I figured that if she ate it, it would be safe. In case anyone wants the recipe, here it is:

1 cup of flour

1/2 cup of salt

1/2 cup of water

Mix together. Add food coloring if you would like.

The homemade playdough was a big hit. She did try to eat it, but it must have tasted really bad because she didn't put it in her mouth again, and she played with it for almost 20 minutes.

Tiny Dancer

I put Becca's hair in tiny ponytails today for the first time. No easy task! She squirmed and wrenched her head away every time I tried. However, I did eventually get them in there, and she looked so cute! You can see them here as she plays/dances in the playroom:

More Christmas Pictures

I never got around to posting other pictures last night, so here are some now:

Samuel with his Ben 10 watch - probably his favorite present:



Becca with her tea set:



Samuel and his transformer:



Becca's rocking horse:



Becca with one of her favorite things of the morning - a box full of packing peanuts:

We hope Christmas was merry at your house!

Merry Christmas

We'll post some more pictures later today, but for now we wanted to share this little video of Becca with her rocking horse:

Methinks thou dost protest too much

(Okay, so I know the meaning of the quote in the title is slightly different than what the video shows below, but they both concern someone protesting. In Samuel's case, protesting a LOT.)

The deal: eat all of your dinner before the timer goes off or you will not get to watch a TV show with your father afterwards. Apparently this was a completely insane request.

Thinking of having a 5 year old? We here at the Norwood family are happy to provide this free public service birth control announcement:

Christmas program

Samuel had a Christmas program at preschool last week. His class dressed as shepherds, in costumes they painted themselves:



Here he is with his friend Caitlyn, who he actually likes a lot in real life, even though it looks otherwise in this picture:



His class sang 2 songs. I tried to videotape them, but the quality is not the best since our seats were so far in the back (who knew you needed to get to the preschool Christmas program hours in advance to get good seats? Not us, apparently.) Here's one of the songs. You won't be able to see which kid is Samuel (he's on the left somewhere), but you can at least hear what his class sang.

Was a more appropriate t-shirt ever made?

(I realize we have not posted anything on our blog in quite a while. More to come this week!)