I went to the library last night and while I was there Art and Lewis got in a spat that ended with Art throwing a plastic, toy airplane at Lewis's head.  When I came in the kids were both in bed and Ben was reading to Art.  Lewis was awake in his bed and immediately sat up.  He said, "Out! Out!" and I picked him up.  Then he said, "Mump!  Nown!  Nown!'  So we went downstairs.  Down and down until we got into the basement where he walked into the big cardboard box where the incident occurred, picked up the airplane and said, "Mump!"  I said, "Oh, you got a bump?" and he said, "Uh huh."  Then he gave me more detail.  He touched the airplane to his face and said, "Mump.  Ow."

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There was a pretty big snow storm today and we took advantage. Every time I play in the snow I think, “why aren’t we doing this more often?” Is fun! Probably cause suiting up two excited kids up in their layers of clothing is about as hard (and time consuming) as solving a rubix cube.

This morning we played and went on a walk. And then for dinner we actually rode our bikes (with bike trailer) 8 blocks south to Petpito’s mexican restaurant (it’s never all that tasty but it’s close and we got instant chips and salsa which makes kids and parents happy).

Art made a slide.

I’m working on building in igloo. All it needs is the roof part (the hardest part). I can only build it in spurts cause the snow has to be packable and today’s (and most snow lately) is too fluffy.

Jess pulling the bike trailer with two toasty children.

Recognize my handwriting?

The other night I sang with three other Music Together teachers at the nearby Global Market, an indoor market that has kiosks offering various foods and wares. We sang many songs that we teach in our Music Together family music classes and a bunch of other random tunes. It was fun.

Art and Lewis came along and were watched by friend and Si’s mother, Laurel (thanks so much, Laurel!). But I must say the kids did really well while I was occupied for two hours (!). Here’s Lewis patiently waiting while I get information from the leader of our group.

After the event the boys discovered these hats and swords at the Swedish goods kiosk. Art had a major meltdown about not getting a hard, plastic injury inducing sword that night, but we still managed to get home.

Jess captured this lovely little song/poem Art sang the other day.

Today we all ran a race (see Jess’s long post below about it). here are some photos.

Take off!

Aunt Em and Deb cheer on Jess and Art.

uncle Mike (in blue) takes off for the the 5k. He’s running coach with lots of marathons under his belt. Look at his form!

What a whirlwind of a day!  We dropped Lewis off early this morning at Bubbe's so Art, Ben and I could go run a race.  Art has some new "racing" shoes that look just like grown-up running shoes and we signed up for a race to try them out.  Art ran a 1/4 mile and then Ben and I ran a 5k while pushing Art in the bike trailer.  That was really hard to do considering we are out of shape, Art is very heavy in there and it was twenty some degrees.  It took us about 36 minutes to run three miles.  Ouch.  The race-walker was ahead of us.  The whole time.  Art was the last kid to finish the 1/4 mile since he wanted to put on an extra sweater mid race, stopped three times and almost didn't finish (I said, "You just have to run to that sign down there!" and he said, "I don't want to," but then he did).  He exclaimed to Ben at the finish, "I ran the whole time, Papa!"  I love how simple a four-year-old's sense of achievement is.