The neighborhood Kid

Today we had our second snow day from school this year, and the 16 plus inches of wet snow was a hard workout for Chaim this morning. As he was sweating away shoveling the quickly falling snow that covered up his clearings he thought to himself, "Wow I'm 50, and in 10 years or so we're going to have to hire some neighborhood kids to do this back breaking work". But then he realizes - "No wait a minute!!!... we HAVE a neighborhood kid upstairs tearing up the house, and in ten years, he'll be doing this work!!!!

And so we had a little fun outside today with the neighborhood kid, and walking home from grandma's we ran into Bix and Humphry on the sledding hill. They let us use their boogie board for one run down the slope at Doughboy Park.

Chaim's finally getting the hang of this

This evening at dinner, a typical family scene around the dinner table. Hiro-hanani has a train wreck of food in front of him as we try to be civilized and eat with at least one piece of cutlery. Hiro-hanani is practicing one-handed drinking from a cup, gulping down the seltzer we call hurt water, due to how it feels going down. He's doing pretty well, but as soon as he gets toward the bottom of the cup, 2/3rds gets dumped over his face and down into his bib. (It's hard to gage distance, amount and gravity all at once). Chaim sees the lake forming in the pocket of the Dr. Seuss bib with nice fish noodles and spinach floating around.

Hiro-hanani decides he's done with dinner and begins to reach for the velcro of his bib on the back of his neck. Before I can say anything, Chaim has rushed around the table, and grabs the lake front bib from Hiro-hanani telling him, "oh are you done? let me help you with that!"

Good save big daddy!

Parallel play

Who says children Hiro's age only engage in parallel play.
Today we kept Skylar company and while we were at it, had more of the "gang" over to hang out on this day off.

Here's Hiro showing Bix his favorite game/ hiding place while Skylar looks on.

Oh and one of these phones are for you!

Discoveries in the house

We just remembered that all the corners in the house have metal strips to protect the drywall. Hiro discovered this the other day. We don't have many metal surfaces upstairs, and since he is gated off from the kitchen, all he had to put his magnetic items in his life was the stainless steel recycling trashcan. Now he has other options.