When the weather outside is this frightful...

There is not much to do besides hibernate indoors when it is THIS cold outside. The 'Arctic blast' describes our weather pretty well. And, I am hoping it leaves soon. Abrie already hates being in her snowsuit to begin with, but add some 40mph wind gusts and she is bound to scream the entire length of our short walk. Oh, the fun of winter here!

Yesterday was take- down- all -the- Christmas- decorations day, and I thought we did pretty well. Dan put it up with their help, and I took it down with their help. So, that was good. We had seen D.W. make some picture frames with candy canes in one of their library books that they had a few weeks ago, and so I decided to save the Christmas candy canes and put them to good use. They had a fun time doing that yesterday. And, today Faith called herself the head chef and Maddie was the 'sous chef' and she had a blast directing Maddie as to how to make a new recipe in the crockpot.

Luckily, the indoor hibernation has been going pretty well. The girlies do play incredibly well together, and Abrie sits there and plays with them too. It's funny to see how much she loves playing with their 'big kid' toys just like I remember Faith being into everything Maddie enjoyed. Maddie always played with only age appropriate things when she was this age, but it's amazing what having older siblings will do to you! We have to watch the Show Case like a hawk though, because boy does she love shoving the tiniest things in her mouth. Not to mention, she likes to CLIMB on top of things (VCR for instance today) and climb UP stairs. Maddie and Faith were not doing these things until well past a year of age.

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Random, but Faith is in "unnawears" all the time now. It was totally at her pace, and I think she finally just felt ready a week or so ago. She wakes up dry and doesn't even need her 'tulip' (Pull-Up) at night. She makes me laugh so much at how incredibly detailed she can be about gross bodily functions! She told me yesterday she had to make a "yuck combo" (both at the same time she described to me) and that "Guy (her beloved cousin, Donovan) will like this. He say, 'good job, Fafe!' Then she insisted on watching everything go down and "swirl." Oh my. Of course, she wears a princess dress and a 'beautiful headband' while saying all of this!

She's such a sweetheart, my Faith-y. She and I went to the library just the two of us the other day last week. It's so fun being with them individually. She tells us all the time now that she is "the bologna and the cheese in a 'ANWICH" since she is our 2nd precious lady. She gets a kick out of Maddie and Abrie being the pieces of bread in our analogy, and says she is "so yummy!" That's our Faith.