LUKE THE BOY

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Snow Snow Come Out in the Snow!

You may have heard we had some snow here in the greater NYC area. While Westchester didn't get the 24"+ that New England got, we held our own with a good foot of dry powder. The build up went on for days, so by the time the flakes started falling last Friday, and school was let out early, Luke and Harper were PSYCHED.

Luke drew this at school in anticipation.

"This snowman is a girl. She is holding a leaf and has buttons and a jacket to keep her from melting." (?)

Harper pre-gamed by donning Paul's hat. "I'm Daddy."

There was enough snow after Harper's nap on Friday afternoon to venture out and stomp around

So we did

We took the new sleds out for a test run

Success!

Harper, probably with a mouthful of snow

We came inside for some maple syurp snow candy - just like Laura Ingalls. Luke declared it to be yummy in his tummy

And of course there was hot cocoa

"THIS IS VERY YUMMY FOR ME, MOMMY"

We woke up Saturday to oodles of snow. 3 rungs of that fence are normally visible. We thought it must be about half a Harper deep?

We ate a big breakfast and headed outside as soon as we could. Luke got right to work on the "big hill"

Mommy took a run down to start a track down the hill - and Daddy and Luke climbed up

and up

And then down:

Ahead of the storm, Aunt Roberta sent a message that said, AND I QUOTE, "Looking at your forecast and a decided that Harper will have a hard time getting thru the snow. We want to see video."

We took two:

And:

Notice how she innocently looks around for her aunt.

Overall, Harper LOVED IT. No fear!

HEAD DOWN!

"I taking a bweak."

While Harper napped, Luke and Daddy headed to his BFF Gavin's house. Gavin lives by a GIANT sledding hill. They had fun and Luke was thoroughly exhausted when it was time to head home

Shoveling snow on Daddy

Making snow angels

SNOW FORT!

"Going crunch crunch crunch" like Peter in Snowy Day

And last, unrelatedly, Luke drew this - it's The Riddler. Mama complimented him on his question mark over his head and Luke explained, "he is thinking of his evil plan."

Monday, February 4, 2013

Lukey Number Five

Luke turned 5 last week, and the occasion was marked with many celebrations.

On the day of, we had a cupcake fete at school. Harper was allowed to visit Luke's "big kid" class from her toddler room for the party.

She fit right in - not hesitating to join in on the post-cupcake dance party or game of musical chairs. Or to wash her hands many times in their sinks.

Saturday was the day for Luke's party at home - he picked a Medieval knight theme and invited his 3 best buddies to come and celebrate with an agenda he had carefully mapped out in advance.