adventures in handwashing

While washing her hands for dinner tonight Abigail found it impossible to resist tasting what looked like delicious soap bubbles on her hands. Her response and the faces she made afterwards lead us to conclude that our hand soap is not tasty (we'll take her word for it). Once her hands were rinsed and she had a sip of milk to get the soap taste out of her mouth, Abigail continued to debrief on the situation:

In case you didn't catch Abby's logical reflections:
"Soap does not taste good."
And in response to a question of how milk tastes: "Good."

ms mischief

"Oh hi everyone. Nope, nothing in my mouth. I'm just smiling at you."

"Wait! I forgot - there is some cracker in there! Here let me show you."

"Who me?"

keeping busy in the snow

We've been busy keeping busy....

Papa shoveled a path by the porch - fun!

We had one day of complete-Abigail-outerwear . . . boots, snowsuit, jacket, hat, mittens . . . the works. Every other day at least one of these items has been tearfully avoided.

Abby takes good care of her doll, Betsy. Here Abby holds Betsy (and Betsy holds Miffy) and A gives B a bottle.

Papa built a snowman right outside the porch window! WOW!

Look at that snowman!

The never ending shoveling job continues.

Papa & Abigail take a walk.

Papa dug another path - this one on the patio.

Abby jogs to the end of the path to check out the snowy yard beyond... all she really wanted to do was walk on top of the snow (and it sure looked like it would have worked) but alas, when you are about 3 feet tall and the snow is almost the same height, you sink a long ways when you venture off the path.

Abigail wonders when she'll be able to play in her house again....

We celebrated Valentine's Day, and Papa's birthday.

Abigail and her best pal Akaash getting ready to start the day.

And last, but not least, a Saturday morning outing to Borders where we read some books and attended a birthday party for Elmo...many songs sung and books read by a lot of small ones and their parents. (The best part was we ran into Akaash and his family there!)

po and pony

Abigail sports a not-often-seen (for her) hairstyle: the ponytail.

Hmmmm where did my hair go?

Abigail became very involved with feeding Po breakfast...he had waffles with syrup and blueberries - just like Abigail did that morning! Coincidence, or more?!

Po's meal was very well narrated by Abigail and occasionally parents were called in to put more syrup on Po's waffle or wipe his face. But otherwise, it was all Abby.

snowsnowsnowsnowsnow

Oh yes. It snowed a lot here. And now we are expecting an additional 10-15 inches by tomorrow.....

Our front stoop does not usually look like this:

One major milestone was when the mini-snow-plows (aka Bobcats) arrived on the scene early one morning. This kept us entertained for quite some time..

Bye bye Bobcat. Come back soon!

Scotty went sledding and we tagged along. But Abby didn't want to get in the sled, she just wanted to eat snow.

There is plenty of snow to snack on.

Mmmmmmmm....

Delicious.

Abby contemplates how she will get over this vast expanse of snow to reach mommy.

fort abby

With two feet of snow on the ground outside and more falling, we are getting creative around here. Example: Abby's fort.

Surrounded by pillows and stuffed animals (and mommy), Abby pretends to be sleeping. This was some nice calm playtime...things got a little more lively in the fort later on....

abby helping

Good thing we've got Abigail to help out in the kitchen.

"What, this isn't how you do dishes?"

Actually, it seems she's really trying to take a sip out of the faucet. So tempting. And leads to some stool acrobatics.

Sometimes when it looks like this outside....

... you need to have this for dinner. Maybe if your stomach thinks it's summery out the latest blizzard will give way to sunny skies and highs in the low-70s.

still winter

In case anyone was wondering, spring is not here yet. We are hunkered down in the midst of the big blizzard which has been quite dramatic! Here's Abigail practicing singing "Happy Birthday to Grandad" before we Skyped with them earlier today! Hope you have a great rest of the day Grandad!!

Just peeking, and reading.

Snow drifts through the porch window.

Patio furniture and A's little backyard house, snowed in.

Abby goes outside with Papa to shovel / eat snow.

taking care of the trees

Snow, snow, snow! It would seem we've got over 2 feet of it so far.... After hearing stories of other trees falling over under the weight of the snow, Jamie decided that we should do something about it....like shake the snow off the branches. Here the trees are "before shaking":

And "during shaking" - the big one on the left still needs attention. There's papa heading that way.

Let's zoom in and take a closer look at the tree shaker.

All done!

Abby enjoyed watching this project from the cozy comfort of the porch with mommy.

"I'm going to touch the camera now..."

"Oh! You're taking my picture! I should smile and say cheeeeeeze!"

peeking

One of Abigail's favorite things to do these days is peek. Or as she would say, "Abby's peekin!"

Where's Abby??

There she is!